Plumbing Work Didn't Qualify as MCI

LVT Number: #28477

The DRA denied landlord's MCI rent increase application based on plumbing work, finding that the work didn't qualify as an MCI. Landlord appealed and lost. To qualify as an MCI, plumbing work must consist of "repiping" of hot and/or cold water risers, returns, and branches to fixtures in each apartment, and/or new hot and/or cold water overhead mains in the basement.

The DRA denied landlord's MCI rent increase application based on plumbing work, finding that the work didn't qualify as an MCI. Landlord appealed and lost. To qualify as an MCI, plumbing work must consist of "repiping" of hot and/or cold water risers, returns, and branches to fixtures in each apartment, and/or new hot and/or cold water overhead mains in the basement. Landlord's work consisted only of installing a previously non-existing, secondary riser with capped-off branches not connected to all existing plumbing fixtures, to be used for possible installation or relocation of fixtures in the future. 

73 Warren Street LLC: DHCR Adm. Rev. Docket No. FS410006RO (4/20/18) [2-pg. doc.]

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