Cornice Repair and Pressure Cleaning Don't Qualify as MCIs

Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on cornice repair, pressure cleaning, pointing limestone, exterior door installation, mailboxes, and a sidewalk bridge. The DRA ruled against landlord. Landlord appealed and lost. At the time the DRA decided landlord's MCI application, there was a rent reduction order in effect. Landlord didn't file a rent restoration application until after the DRA denied its MCI application. In addition, cornice repair and pressure cleaning and installation of a sidewalk bridge don't qualify as MCIs unless this work was done in connection with a qualifying MCI. Landlord didn't submit the required contractor's statement and diagram for the pointing work. So even if there was no rent reduction order, this work wouldn't qualify.

284 7th Avenue: DHCR Adm. Rev. Docket No. SF210059RO (2/7/08) [2-pg. doc.]