March 2018
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No Gas Meter Violation Where Landlord Had Permit to Install Laundry Room
Landlord Fined $50,600 for Transient Rentals
Landlord Fined for Signs of Rats in Front of Building
Landlord Fined $500 for Failing to File Annual BPD Test Report
Landlord Didn't Produce Certification of Curtain Flameproofing at Inspection
Tenant's Jailed Son Can't Get Rent-Stabilized SRO Apartment
Tenant Claims Defective Kitchen Cabinet Fell Off Wall, Causing Injury
DHCR Disallowed Rent Increase for IAIs After Inspection
Tenant Can't Prove Nine-Month Absence from Apartment Was for Medical Reasons
Landlord Improperly Deregulated and Overcharged Tenant of Hotel-Stabilized Apartment
Landlord Seeks to Recover All Apartments in Building for Owner Occupancy
Tenant's Mother Can't Get Rent-Stabilized Apartment
Landlord Can't Enforce Eviction Warrant After Later Signing Renewal Lease by Mistake
DHCR Correctly Found Rent Overcharge Based on 1996 Rent Reduction Order
DHCR Properly Reconsidered Overcharge Finding Based on Irregularity in a Vital Matter
MCI Payment Didn't Come from Condo Conversion Reserve Fund
New Windows Installed More Than 20 Years After Prior Installation
Tenant's Studio Apartment Contains One Room, Not Two
Elderly Tenant's Failure to Answer Deregulation Application Excused
Landlord Didn't Illegally Lock Out Person Claiming to Be Apartment Occupant
Landlord Can't Amend Rent Registrations Until DHCR Decides Overcharge Complaint
Two Buildings Weren't a Horizontal Multiple Dwelling
Building Was Substantially Rehabilitated in 1993
Landlord Who Converted Building for Owner Occupancy Didn't Prove Exemption from Rent Stabilization
Building Was Substantially Rehabilitated
DHCR Reconsiders Whether Apartment Was Improperly Deregulated
Rent Charged When Unregulated Apartment Becomes Subject to J-51 Becomes Regulated Rent
Base Rent Set Using Average of Comparable Rents
Base Date Rent Reduced to Preferential Rent
421-a Rent Surcharge Wasn't Included in Base Rent
Landlord Can Evict Tenant Who Violated Settlement Agreement
Tenant's SCRIE Should Be Based on Legal Regulated Rent, Not Preferential Rent
Landlord Can Add Additional Rent Accruing Since Rent Demand to Court Petition
DHCR Disallowed Some Costs Landlord Claimed Were Part of Garage Roof MCI
Rent-Stabilized Tenant's Son Can't Get Apartment
Rent Overcharge Based on Rent Reduction Order Found Willful
Tenant Underreported Income on Apartment Application
Tenant Awarded $4,650 for Water Leak Damage
NYCHA Affidavits of Service of Rent Demands Contained False Statements
Users' Claim That Airbnb Acted as Unlicensed Real Estate Broker Must Go to Arbitration
DHCR Determined Rent Overcharge Claim Based on Submitted Rent Ledgers
Rent Overcharge Resulted from Pre-Base Date Rent Reduction Order
No Fraud by Landlord Where Tenant Paid Same Rent Since Base Rent Date
Overcharge Limited to Periods Where Tenant Submitted Proof of Rent Payment
Tenant's Legal Rent Reduced to Preferential Rent
Wife of Tenant Who Hadn't Permanently Vacated Wasn't Entitled to Renewal Lease
No Rent Overcharge for Tenant in J-51 Building
Apartment Improperly Deregulated During Receipt of J-51 Tax Benefits
Tenant Can't Seek Enforcement on Appeal of DRA Order
Landlord Omitted Legal and Preferential Rents from One Lease
Landlord Proves Building Was Substantially Rehabilitated in Eviction Case
NYCHA Tenant's Son Can't Get Apartment After Tenant Died
Registration Records Show Rent Never Reached Deregulation Threshold
Tenant's Nephew May Have Been Accepted as Tenant
Court Properly Looked Back More Than Four Years to Assess Claim
Courtyard Use Was Required Ancillary Service
Landlord Proves Building Was Substantially Rehabbed in 1984
Building Substantially Rehabilitated in 2007 Was Exempt from Rent Stabilization
Supportive Living Facility Properly Denied Entry to Occupant
421-A Building with Fewer Than Six Apartments Is Rent Stabilized
