June 2010
Tenant Relocated to Shelter
Landlord Can Evict Tenant Who Was Given Invalid Lease
No 1/40th Increase for Lead Barrier Paint
On-Time Rent Discount Is Preferential Rent
New Air Conditioners Don't Qualify as MCIs
Laundry Room Noise Was Minor Condition
Board Disapproves Sale of Eighth Apartment to Tenant-Shareholder
Landlord Can Add Parking Tax to Tenant's Garage Rent
Family Member Wasn't Listed on Tenant's Income Affidavit
No Triple Damages for Overcharge Based on 14-Year-Old Rent Reduction Order
Four-Year Limit Inapplicable Under Rent Control
No Proof Tenant Was Charged Preferential Rent
Landlord Misrepresented Its Corporate Status
Violation for Mixed-Use Building Incorrectly Issued
Landlord Can't Discontinue Preferential Rent
Co-op Unit Owners Bound by Alteration Agreement with Landlord
Order Restoring Rent-Controlled Tenant's Rent Can't Be Retroactive
DHCR Must Consider Leases Submitted by Landlord After PAR Decision
Tenant Claims Landlord Refused Section 8 Subsidy
Tenant Spent Most of Six-Year Period in Thailand
Elevator Out of Service for Several Days
Landlord Discontinued Access to Community Room
Landlord Can't Reduce Tenant's Dwelling Space for Elevator Installation
Prior Landlord's 1956 Decontrol Report Set Aside
No Proof Month-to-Month Tenant Paid Preferential Rent on Base Date
DHCR Can't Decide Complaint About Nighttime Boiler Noise
J-51 Tenant Gets Attorney's Fees
Section 8 Tenant Lied About Family Composition
Landlord Removed Tenant's Roof Deck
Wife Can't Get Tenant's NYCHA Apartment
HPD Can Terminate Section 8 Tenant's Subsidy
Landlord's Owner-Occupancy Case Wasn't Premature
Corporate Tenant Deregulated for Not Providing Occupant's Income Information
Apartment Vacant on Base Rent Date
Landlord Can Substitute Concierge for Elevator Operators
Rewiring Qualifies as MCI
No Proof Rent-Stabilized Apartment Was Ever Deregulated
Shareholder-Tenant Gets 100% Maintenance Abatement
NYCHA Decision Barring Homeless Woman's Application Too Severe
DHCR Previously Ruled Tenant Was Rent Stabilized
Failure to Maintain Chimney Was Class 1 Violation
Tenant's Claim Raised Too Late
Illusory Tenant Must Be Added to Renewal Lease Offered to Subtenant
Landlord Can't Replace Security Guards with Video Surveillance System
Termination Notice Signed by Managing Agent Was Sufficient
Landlord Needed Interpreter
Tenant Remains Rent Controlled Despite 1978 Decontrol Order
Daughter Lived with Tenant for at Least Two Years
Violation Notice Improperly Addressed to Managing Agent's Employee
Appeals Court Won't Delay Partial Revocation of RGBOs 40 and 41 Pending Appeal
NYCHA Can Evict Tenant for Misrepresenting Income
Landlord Increased Rent Without Renewing Lease
Tenant Didn't Answer Pretrial Questions
Landlord Must Continue Tenant's Preferential Rent Agreement
Partial Structural Steel Work Didn't Qualify as MCI
Landlord Didn't Send Tenant Post-Foreclosure Vacate Notice
Owner-Occupant Not Responsible for Sidewalk Repair
Did Mold Cause Child's Asthma?
Landlord Can't Collect Vacancy Increase
Is Affordable Housing Development Plan Discriminatory?
