Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant. Since the apartment had been temporarily exempt from rent regulation on the four-year base date in 2010, tenant's legal regulated...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA treated the complaint as a fair market rent appeal (FMRA), ruled for tenant, set the apartment's initial legal regulated rent using the default formula, and ordered...
The DHCR's Tenant Protection Unit (TPU) referred a rent overcharge claim to the DRA, after making a finding of rent overcharge that the landlord rejected. The TPU found that individual apartment improvements (...
Tenant filed an application for an Administrative Determination (AD) by the DHCR, to determine his building's rent-regulatory status. The DRA found that the building received Real Property Tax Law 421-a tax...
Landlord asked the DHCR for permission to replace a building's metal key entry system with an electronic key fob entrance system. The DRA ruled for landlord and set some conditions for the installation of the key...
Landlord filed three separate applications with the DHCR to determine if its three buildings were exempt from rent regulation based on substantial rehabilitation. Landlord bought the buildings in 2014 and claimed...
Landlord applied to the DHCR for a rent stabilization exemption order based on claimed substantial rehabilitation of landlord's building. Landlord bought the building in March 2014, performed renovation work that...
Tenant complained to the DHCR that landlord refused to give her a renewal lease. Landlord answered that the apartment was a restricted 100 percent Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) project pursuant to a...
The son of a deceased rent-stabilized tenant filed a lease violation complaint, claiming that landlord had refused to offer him a renewal lease and that he had succession rights to the apartment. The DRA ruled for...
The DHCR's DRA granted landlord's application for rent increases based on an MCI for an elevator upgrade and new elevator cabs. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant claimed that the DHCR should have allocated a...
(Decision submitted by Elizabeth A. Lentini of the Manhattan law firm of Borah, Goldstein, Altschuler, Nahins & Goidel, P.C., attorneys for the landlord.)
(Decision submitted by Elizabeth A. Lentini of the Manhattan law firm of Borah, Goldstein, Altschuler, Nahins & Goidel, P.C., attorneys for the landlord.)
