HIGH-RENT DEREGULATION

Tenant's Income Was Below Deregulation Threshold

March 24, 2014    

Landlord applied in 2011 for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant's rent-stabilized apartment. The DRA ruled against landlord, after finding that tenant's household income was below the income...

Apartment Deregulated in High-Rent/High-Income Proceeding

March 21, 2014    

In 2009, landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant's rent-stabilized apartment. Tenant supplied tax return information for himself and his roommate, claiming that his household income was...

Apartment Deregulated in High-Rent/High-Income Proceeding

February 18, 2014    

Landlord applied in 2007 for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenants' rent-stabilized apartment. Landlord claimed that tenants admitted on the Income Certification Form that their total annual household...

Landlord Doesn't Prove High-Rent Vacancy Deregulation of Apartment

February 18, 2014    

Tenant complained of a reduction in services. The DRA ruled for tenant based on landlord's failure to answer the complaint, and reduced tenant's rent. Landlord appealed and lost. Landlord claimed that it had...

Tenant Challenges Landlord's Claimed High-Rent Vacancy Deregulation

February 17, 2014    

Landlord sued to evict tenant after tenant's lease expired. Landlord claimed that tenant was unregulated. Tenant claimed that he was subject to rent stabilization and that he had been overcharged. Both sides...

Landlord Sent ICF to Wrong Tenant

January 15, 2014    

Landlord applied in 2011 for high-rent/high-income deregulation of rent-stabilized tenant's apartment. The DRA ruled against landlord because it didn't attach a copy of the Income Certification Form (ICF)...

Landlord Didn't Name Both Tenants on ICF

December 17, 2013    

Landlord applied in 2011 for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenants' apartment. The DRA dismissed landlord's application because it didn't send copies of the Income Certification Form (ICF) to both...

Previously Rent-Stabilized Building Subject to Luxury Deregulation After J-51 Benefits Expire

December 13, 2013    

(Decision submitted by William J. Neville of the Manhattan law firm of Mitofsky Shapiro Neville & Hazen LLP, attorneys for the landlord.)

DRA Must Investigate Unverified Income Tax Data

December 12, 2013    

Landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of rent-stabilized tenants' apartment in 2009. The DRA ruled against landlord after being unable to verify tenants' household income for 2007 and 2008....

Apartment Was Deregulated on Base Date Due to High-Rent Vacancy

August 8, 2013    

Tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2011. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that the base date rent was over $2,000 per month. Tenant appealed and lost. Lease records showed that the legal regulated rent on...

Luxury Deregulation Granted Based on Tenant's Default

July 15, 2013    

Landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant's apartment in 2007. The DRA terminated the proceeding in November 2008, finding that the apartment had been deregulated in an order issued in...

Tenant Claimed Delay in Filing Tax Returns

July 12, 2013    

Landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant's rent-stabilized apartment in 2010. Tenant claimed that his annual household income was below the $175,000 deregulation threshold in both 2008...