March 2002
Heat and Hot Water Not Required
Labor Costs Excluded
Landlord Not Credited with MCI Rent Increase
Section 8 Rent Can Be Used as Comparable
Guidelines Increase Permitted During Time Tenant Not Given Lease
Carbon Monoxide Detectors
Pointing Wasn't Done in Connection with New Roof
Tenant's Child Used Fire Escape to Enter Building
Cost of Debris Container Included
Eviction Case Not Started on Time
Landlord Didn't Remove Snow on Time
Landlord Claims Violating Conditions Removed
Managing Agent of Land Not Responsible for Violation
DHCR Order Not Binding on Court
Guarantor Not Entitled to Credit for Security Deposit
Label Missing on Container
Landlord Claims Scavengers Put Recycling Bottles in Regular Garbage Bags
Landlord Must Submit Proof of Costs, Despite Tenant's Consent
Lease Clause Void
Landlord Can't Rely on Prior Nonrenewal Notice
Landlord Didn't Prove Hot-Water Violation Corrected
Defects in New Roof
Landlord Can't Evict for Overcrowding
Landlord Bill Based on Estimated Reading
Tenant Used Two Combined Apartments as One Unit
Debris Not in Front of Landlord's Building
DOB Issued Violation for Shifting Bricks
Noisy Tenant
Tenant Cared for Ill Relative in Canada
Switching from Commercial to Residential Lease
Prior Landlord Never Returned Security Deposit
Co-op Apartment Covered
Rent-Controlled Tenant Without Car Has Space
Parapet Work Done with New Roof Installation and Pointing
Number of Security Guards Reduced
Tenant Sublet Part of Loft Unit
Tenant Entitled to SCRIE Benefits
Landlord Limited to Charging Registered Rent
Landlord Must Give Tenant Two-Year Vacancy Lease
20-Year Rule Doesn't Apply
Part of Apartment Used as Medical Office
Apartment Renovated After Fire
Landlord Claims Tenant Is Rent Stabilized
Landlord Wants Apartment for Son
Vacant Apartment Deregulated Based on High Rent
Landlord Used Wrong Maximum Consumption Standard
Landlord Can Charge More than Public Assistance Rent
Landlord Can Collect Vacancy Increase from Second Successive Pass-on Tenant
Increase Granted for Rewiring
Landlord Never Gave Lease to Tenant
Ceramic Tiles
Cost of Painting Railings Included
Landlord Can't Collect Two Month's Rent
Landlord Gets First Rent for Creating Smaller Apartment
Landlord Wasn't Given Chance to Correct Conditions Cited in Rent Reduction Order
Building Not Part of Horizontal Multiple Dwelling
President of Tenants Association Wasn't Authorized to File PAR for Other Tenants
Landlord Must Prove RR-1 Form Delivered by Certified Mail
Landlord Can File Late PAR
Tenant Voluntarily Offers to Prepay Last Two Month's Rent
Air Conditioner Surcharge in Former Mitchell-Lama Building
Apartment Rented to Jesuit Province
Fitness Room
Sublet Allowance Based on Preferential Rent
Landlord Can Increase Deposit When MCI Rent Increase Granted
Agreement to Convert to Rent Stabilization Is Void
Tenant Can't Challenge First Rent After Rent-Controlled Apartment Vacant for Four Years
Landlord Removed Wall
Space Covered Under Rent Stabilization
Tenant's Withdrawal of Complaint Invalid
Landlord Wants to Replace Rooftop Solarium with Health Club
