NYS DIVISION OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY RENEWAL

Tenant's Elevator Service Complaint to DHCR Properly Dismissed

March 29, 2021    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of a reduction in building-wide services based on defective elevator service. The DRA ruled against tenant on Nov. 22, 2019, after DHCR inspection on Nov. 12, 2019,...

Gas Service Was Restored Before DHCR Inspection

March 29, 2021    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained of a reduction in building-wide services in April 2019, claiming that there had been no gas service at the building since October 2018. The DRA notified landlord of tenant's...

Parking Space Was Required Service Despite No Written Agreement

March 29, 2021    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained in 2020 of a reduction in building-wide services after landlord sent him a 30-day termination notice concerning his parking spot in the building's garage. The DRA ruled for...

Rent Administrator Miscalculated Rent Overcharge

March 29, 2021    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant but found that no refund was owed because landlord already issued a refund to tenant in response to the complaint. The total overcharge...

Landlord Waived Right to Collect A/C Surcharge

March 29, 2021    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2016. Tenant claimed that he had bought and installed an air conditioner in his apartment some time ago and that current landlord only recently started charging...

Landlord Who Charged Less Than Legal Rent Waived Higher Rent

March 29, 2021    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant in 2018 and found a total overcharge of $3,450, including triple damages. Since tenant owed $15,000 in rent arrears, no refund to tenant...

No Fraud Found in Connection with Rent Overcharge Claim

March 29, 2021    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, who appealed and lost. Tenant claimed that landlord substantially increased her rent upon lease renewal. But the DRA found that...

Landlord's 2019 Deregulation Applications Dismissed Based on HSTPA

March 29, 2021    

Landlord applied separately for high-rent/high-income deregulation of 10 apartments in one building in May 2019. The DRA dismissed those applications in August 2019 based on provisions of HSTPA that repealed...

Overcharge Calculation Reduced, Attorney Fees Awarded in Regina Remand Case

March 29, 2021    

Tenants signed a two-year unregulated lease in August 2005 at an initial rent of $5,195 per month. Landlord had removed the apartment from rent stabilization in 2003 under high-rent vacancy deregulation provisions of...

Former Employee of Temporarily Exempt Unit Didn't Become Rent Stabilized

March 29, 2021    

Tenant complained to the DHCR that landlord refused to offer him a rent-stabilized lease. Tenant had moved into the apartment in 1992 and never had a lease. His occupancy was conditioned on his employment with the...

No Overcharge Where Tenant Paid $800 for Years Without Lease

March 25, 2021    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR in 2017 of rent overcharge. He had moved into the apartment in 1987. While his vacancy lease rent was $383 per month, he had no written lease at this point and had paid $...

No Indication Found of Fraudulent Scheme to Deregulate Apartment

March 25, 2021    

Tenant complained of rent overcharge and improper deregulation of his apartment. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that the apartment was high-rent vacancy-deregulated in 2000. Tenant appealed, based on a number...