Tenant complained of improper apartment deregulation and rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that the apartment was exempt from rent stabilization due to high-rent vacancy deregulation in 2011....
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge based on a prior DHCR rent reduction order. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $1,873, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and won, in...
The DHCR's Tenant Protection Unit (TPU) did an individual apartment improvement (IAI) audit of tenant's rent-stabilized apartment and found that landlord's claimed IAIs didn't support the apartment...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of inadequate hot water service in his apartment. In response, landlord claimed that hot water service had been restored and submitted a plumbing and heating company invoice. The DRA...
Landlord asked the DHCR for a ruling that its building was exempt from rent stabilization due to substantial rehabilitation after Jan. 1, 1974. Landlord claimed that the building had been vacant since 1978 and that...
Landlord asked the DHCR for a ruling that its building was exempt from rent stabilization due to substantial rehabilitation after Jan. 1, 1974. Landlord claimed that the building's interior was demolished and...
Tenant asked the DHCR for a ruling on the rent-regulated status of her apartment. Tenant claimed that landlord had fraudulently deregulated the apartment. Landlord claimed that the apartment had been vacancy...
Landlord applied to the DHCR for a rent increase based on a first-time painting of tenant's rent-controlled apartment. The DRA ruled against landlord, finding that the DHCR's rent registration cards showed...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on installation of a new roof and facade work. Tenant appealed and lost. He claimed that there was an identity of interest between landlord and its general contractor, that...
The DHCR's DRA granted landlord's MCI rent increase application based on installation of a boiler/burner, elevator upgrade, and hallway flooring. Tenants appealed and lost. They claimed that the installation...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on installation of a new boiler. The DRA ruled against landlord based on its failure to submit proof of a Certificate of Electrical Inspection from DOB. Landlord appealed and...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on installation of parapet, window lintels, brick, roof entrance doors, mortar roof and hallway window replacements, repointing, facade work, and sidewalk bridge rental...