Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2017. The DRA applied a four-year base date and ruled against tenant in March 2019, finding no overcharge. Tenant appealed and lost. While at first the DHCR was...
Tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that the apartment was no longer subject to rent stabilization. Tenant appealed and, while tenant's PAR was pending, the...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. Tenant claimed that a prior rent reduction order had frozen his rent. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $7,918, including interest. Landlord...
Landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of three rent-stabilized apartments in its building in May 2019. The DRA dismissed the applications in August 2019, noting that the Housing Stability and Tenant...
Rent-stabilized tenant's grandson claimed succession rights and complained that landlord refused to give him a renewal lease after tenant died. The DRA ruled for tenant's grandson. Landlord appealed and lost...
Apartment occupant complained that landlord failed to offer him a rent-stabilized renewal lease. Landlord responded that the apartment wasn't the tenant's primary residence and that landlord had sent tenant a...
Rent-stabilized tenant filed a lease violation complaint. He claimed that landlord failed to offer a renewal lease on the same terms and conditions as his expiring lease. The DRA ruled against tenant because landlord...
In 2019, landlord asked the DHCR for permission to amend the 2015 rent registration for tenants' apartment. Landlord said that the registered tenant name, Luis Garcia, was incorrect and that the registered tenant...
The DHCR's Rent Administrator issued an order directing landlord to register apartments in its building as rent-stabilized for 2018. The DRA based its directive on information found in the NYC Dept. of...
The DHCR's Rent Administrator initiated a proceeding against landlord, claiming that it had failed to register its building as rent stabilized in 2018. The DRA's ruling was based on its review of NYC Dept. of...
Landlord asked the DHCR for a ruling that its building was exempt from rent stabilization due to substantial rehabilitation. Landlord bought the building in 2015 and claimed that the building was in seriously...
Landlord applied to the DHCR for permission to modify essential services by replacing a steam heating system with an electrical baseboard heating system. The DRA ruled for landlord. Three tenants appealed and lost....
