Super with Reduced Rent Covered

Tenant moved into a rent-stabilized apartment in the mid-1980s under an oral rental agreement. Tenant agreed to perform light superintendent duties in exchange for a reduced rent of $200 per month. Landlord asked the DHCR if the tenant remained subject to rent stabilization a number of years later when he no longer worked as the building super. In an opinion letter, the DHCR said yes. An apartment occupied by a building super is exempt from rent stabilization only if the apartment is provided as part or all of the super's compensation and the super doesn't pay any rent. Since the super here paid some rent, he is a rent-stabilized tenant.

DHCR Opin. Ltr. by Charles Goldstein (9/20/99) [2-pg. doc.]