Apartment licensee Joseph complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA terminated the proceeding because the licensee's initial occupancy was contingent upon her employment with Maimonides Medical Center (...
Landlord applied to the DHCR for a determination that its building was exempt from rent stabilization due to substantial rehabilitation of the property in 1989. The DRA ruled for landlord since the sub rehab took...
Landlord applied to the DHCR for a determination that its building was exempt from rent stabilization as the result of a substantial rehabilitation in 1989. The DRA ruled for landlord but found that tenants of four...
A tenant filed an application with the DHCR, seeking an administrative determination that the building he lived in was subject to rent stabilization. He said that the building was built before 1974, contained at...
Landlord asked the DHCR for permission to modify services at a rent-stabilized building. Landlord sought to modify or substitute the old hard-wired intercom at the building with a new phone-based system. The DRA...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on installation of gas piping. The DRA ruled for landlord in 2022 and approved rent increases in amounts based on HSTPA amendments to the Rent Stabilization Law. Landlord...
Tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge and improper apartment deregulation. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that the apartment had been deregulated in 2010. This was before tenant moved into the unit...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $682, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost. Although landlord had proved...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR in April 2019 of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, who appealed and lost. Tenant argued that landlord had illegally raised her preferential rent beyond...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on elevator modernization. The DRA ruled for landlord and increased tenants' rents. The Tenants' Association appealed and lost. Tenants claimed that landlord failed...
Tenant complained to the DHCR in 2018 of rent overcharge and improper deregulation of her apartment. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that the unit was deregulated in 2009, which was prior to the 2014 base rent...
Rent-stabilized tenant in a building complained to the DHCR in 2017 of rent overcharge. He had moved into the unit in 1993 and claimed that he had been overcharged for 20 years. He also claimed that landlord had...
