Tenants' daughter filed a lease violation complaint with the DHCR. She had moved into her current apartment with her parents in 2007. Tenant and her father signed a renewal lease for the two-year term between...
Apartment occupant complained to the DHCR that he was the rent-stabilized tenant's son and that landlord refused to give him a renewal lease after tenant died. Landlord argued that the son moved into the...
In early 2020, landlord started a lease termination proceeding at HPD against a Mitchell-Lama co-op tenant, seeking a Certificate of Eviction. The tenant had lived in a caretaking facility since 2015 and at a later...
A rent-controlled tenant's son asked the DHCR for a ruling that he had succession rights to tenant's apartment. The DRA ruled for the son. Landlord appealed and lost. The DHCR pointed out that, in a prior...
An apartment occupant asked the DHCR to determine his apartment's rent-regulated status and to rule that he had succession rights to the unit. In response, landlord argued that the occupant would be the second...
NYCHA tenant's sister claimed that she had lived with tenant for a year before tenant died in 2020. After tenant died, the sister lived with tenant's daughter in the apartment and assisted the daughter with...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonprimary residence, and named tenant's sister as an apartment occupant. After pretrial questioning, tenant surrendered possession of the apartment. Her sister...
In 2019, after a hearing, NYCHA denied occupant's application for succession rights to tenant's apartment as a remaining family member. The occupant then filed an Article 78 court appeal and lost. She then...
HPD denied the succession rights claim filed by the son of a Mitchell-Lama co-op tenant who died in 2009. The son then filed an Article 78 court appeal of HPD's decision. The court ruled against him. HPD found...
Tenant filed an application with the DHCR for an administrative determination (AD), claiming rights as a first successor tenant to his parents' rent-controlled apartment. Tenant said that his parents signed a...
Landlord sued to evict apartment occupant after rent-stabilized tenant died. The occupant claimed succession rights as a nontraditional family member. Landlord asked the court to rule against occupant without a trial...
Landlord brought a licensee holdover proceeding to evict the daughter of a shareholder-tenant in a limited income housing cooperative. Landlord asked the court for a ruling without trial because HPD had ruled that...
