Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes in June 2018 based on several improvements, including elevator upgrading, a new compactor, and a new TV/security system. The DRA ruled for landlord in part in February 2021. The...
The DRA granted landlord's application for MCI rent hikes based on installation of a new roof. Tenant appealed and lost. In her PAR, tenant claimed that there were leaks and water damage in her apartment that...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on facade restoration, with related engineering fees and scaffolding. The DRA ruled for landlord in 2012. Tenants appealed and won in part. Tenants then filed an Article 78...
The DRA granted landlord's application for MCI rent hikes based on installation of a new boiler/burner. Tenants appealed, claiming that landlord didn't replace the old boiler/burner. Instead, landlord...
Landlord, a co-op corporation, filed an MCI rent increase application based on installation of a new burner. The DRA ruled against landlord because landlord indicated that the full cost of the burner was paid for...
An apartment occupant complained to the DHCR that landlord refused to give him a renewal lease after tenant, his mother, died in May 2018. The son submitted copies of his birth certificate, death certificate, NY...
Rent-stabilized tenant's granddaughter claimed succession rights and complained that the landlord refused to offer her a renewal lease after tenant died in October 2018. Landlord responded that it had commenced...
Tenant complained to the DHCR in 2017 of rent overcharge and improper apartment deregulation. The DRA ruled for tenant, finding that the apartment was rent stabilized. Due to landlord's failure to submit a lease...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge and improper apartment deregulation in 2016. Landlord answered that it reasonably believed the apartment had been vacancy deregulated before tenant...
In 2019, two tenants asked the DHCR in separate applications to rule on their apartments' regulatory status and to set the legal rent. The DRA ruled for tenants and found that their units were rent stabilized....
Landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of rent-stabilized tenant's apartment in 2016. In April 2019, the DRA ruled for landlord based on its finding that tenant's total annual household...
Tenant complained to the DHCR in 2016 that her apartment had been improperly deregulated and that she was overcharged. The DRA ruled for tenant and found that the unit was subject to rent stabilization. Landlord...