April 2021
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DHCR Sets Rent for Permanent Tenant in SRO Building
Rent-Controlled Tenant's Daughter Is First Successor Tenant
Building Containing Six Apartments Was Rent Stabilized
No Vacancy Deregulation Applied Where Tenant Wasn't Given Lease
Rent Administrator Must Reconsider Whether Building Was Substantially Rehabbed
MCI Increase Granted for Backflow Prevention Device Installation
Occupant Not Entitled to Renewal Lease for Rent-Controlled Unit
DHCR Dismisses 2019 High-Rent/High-Income Deregulation Applications
RA Improperly Applied HSTPA Amendments Retroactively
Landlord Didn't Certify Enough Corrected Violations for MBR Order of Eligibility
Landlord's Nonprimary Residence Holdover Dismissed After Tenant Died
Landlord Didn't Comply with 1994 Rent Reduction Order
Landlord Gets Attorney's Fees for Counterclaims Based on Apartment Damage
New Building Blocks Light and Air to Tenants' Windows
Tenants' Harassment and Assault Claims Against Landlord Dismissed
Court Revokes DHCR Approval of Landlord's Application to Modify Courtyard
Failure to Register Current Rent Results in Dismissal of Nonpayment Case
Landlord in Contempt of Court for Not Correcting Apartment Violations
Rye City Court Had No Jurisdiction Over Out-Of-State Landlord
Nuisance Case Dismissed Because Landlord Didn't Send Predicate Notice
HomeAway Gets $595K in Attorney's Fees in Challenge to Short-Term Rental Law
Court Won't Apply CEEFPA Nuisance Exception to Case
No Proof CEEFPA Nuisance Exception Applied to Tenant
Tenants in HUD/HPD Housing Can't Pursue Untimely Rent Increase Objection
Tenant Claims She's Rent Controlled, Not Stabilized
DHCR Won't Consider Tenant's Unsupported Rent Fraud Claim
DHCR Won't Accept Rent Records Submitted for the First Time with PAR
Tenant Showed No Proof of Fraud
Landlord Proved Apartment Was Deregulated
Landlord Set Lawful Legal Regulated Rent After Unit's Temporary Exemption
Willful Rent Overcharge of $175K Based on 2002 Rent Reduction Order
Landlord Submits No Proof of Settlement to Offset Overcharge Finding
Overcharge Complaint Concerning Deregulated Apartment Properly Dismissed
No Triple Damages for Tenant Who Wouldn't Accept Overcharge Refund
Apartment's Initial Legal Regulated Rent No Longer Subject to Challenge
Landlord Continued Collecting Overcharge After Making Partial Refund
TPU Incorrectly Claimed Rent Overcharge
Landlord Entitled to Collect Rent Increase for IAIs
Landlord Claims Tenant Wasn't Entitled to Claim Rent Overcharge
Landlord Proved the Cost of IAIs
Rent Reduced to $1 per Month Based on Uninhabitable Conditions
Names on Mailboxes Not a Required Service If Never Provided
Landlord Discontinued Security Guard Service Years Before Complaint
Landlord Needn't Restore Tenants to Occupancy After Fire Destroys Buildings
No Rent Reduction Where Service Restored Before DHCR Inspection
Trial Needed to Determine If Tenant's Daughter Gets Apartment
Tenant's Husband Didn't Prove Co-occupancy
DHCR Policy Change in Useful Life of Steam Heat System Was Reasonable
