NYS DIVISION OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY RENEWAL

Landlord Transferred Cost of Heat and Hot Water Service to Tenant

May 25, 2022    

Tenant complained in 2017 that landlord failed to provide heat and hot water because it had converted the central boiler/hot water system to individual apartment-based heat/hot water systems in 2016. Landlord did so...

Health Care Aide Fails to Prove Succession Rights to Rent-Stabilized Tenant's Apartment

May 25, 2022    

An apartment occupant complained to the DHCR that landlord refused to offer her a rent-stabilized renewal lease after tenant died. She claimed she was the "daughter" and "primary health care attendant...

DHCR Won't Decide Tenant's Renewal Lease Complaint While Nonprimary Residence Case Is Pending

May 25, 2022    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained that landlord refused to renew his lease. Tenant attached a copy of landlord's lease nonrenewal notice based on its claim of tenant's nonprimary residence. The DRA ruled for...

Court Upholds DHCR Approval of MCI Rent Increases as Rational

May 25, 2022    

In 2017, the DHCR's Rent Administrator granted landlord's MCI rent increase application based on landlord's installation of a new roof, pointing, waterproofing, parapet, and sidewalk shed. Some tenants...

Tenant's Grandson Is First Successor Tenant

May 24, 2022    

The grandson of rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR that he had succession rights but that landlord refused to offer him a renewal lease after tenant died. In response, landlord claimed it did offer the...

Landlord Proved It Sent Renewal Lease to Tenant

May 24, 2022    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR in February 2021 that landlord refused to renew her lease. Landlord responded and said that it offered tenant a lease renewal on Aug. 31, 2020, but that tenant failed to...

Tenant Had Insufficient Proof to Warrant Investigation for Rent Fraud

May 24, 2022    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2017. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding no overcharge. The DRA also found insufficient proof to support a colorable claim of fraudulent conduct by landlord...

New Landlord Must Refund Overcharge Collected by Prior Landlord

May 24, 2022    

The DHCR's Tenant Protection Unit (TPU) filed a rent overcharge complaint on tenant's behalf in 2017, and claimed that the $2,700 rent charged by landlord in December 2014 constituted an overcharge. For the...

Outstanding Rent Reduction Order Resulted in $219K Overcharge

May 24, 2022    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2018. The DRA ruled for tenant and froze the $1,600 base date rent at $500 due to an outstanding rent reduction order. The DRA directed landlord to refund $219,...

Unit Deregulated Before June 2019 Remained So Despite Appeal Decided Post-HSTPA

May 17, 2022    

Landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant's rent-stabilized apartment in 2011. The DRA ruled against landlord in 2015, finding that the building received J-51 tax benefits and that none of...

Divorced Tenants Maintained Rent-Controlled Status in Two Separate Apartments

May 17, 2022    

Tenant A, living in Apt. 6, and Tenant B, living in Apt. 11, asked the DHCR in 2016 to determine their regulatory status and the rents for their apartments. They claimed that Tenant B rented Apt. 6 in 1957 and that...

Landlord Can't Amend Rent Registration to "Temporarily Exempt"

May 17, 2022    

Landlord asked the DHCR in 2021 for permission to amend an apartment's annual rent registrations for the years 2015 through 2019. The apartment had been registered as rent stabilized, but landlord claimed that it...