Landlord Required to Paint

Tenant complained of a reduction in services based on landlord's failure to paint his apartment. The DRA ruled for tenant. Landlord appealed, claiming that painting was ordinary maintenance or repair and had to be done only as needed, rather than on some schedule. The DHCR ruled against landlord. Landlord had painted tenant's apartment in 1981 and in 1987. So it was landlord's practice to paint, and it had not done so in a long time. Painting was a required service and needed to be done.

636 Apts. Assocs., JV: DHCR Admin. Rev. Dckt. No. QF910047RO (9/24/02) [2-pg. doc.]