Tenant's Rent No Longer Frozen

Tenant complained of a rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding no overcharge. The base rent was the legal regulated rent charged to tenant on that date. Tenant appealed, claiming that the lawful based date rent was $1,550, not $1,727, based on a prior DHCR order. The DHCR ruled against tenant. The prior order had frozen tenant's rent at $1,550 due to landlord's failure to file annual rent registrations for the apartment. But, since then, landlord had filed the missing registrations. There were no longer any grounds to freeze tenant's rent, and the rent charge otherwise was legal.

Defresco: DHCR Adm. Rev. Docket No. VF410070RT (11/14/07) [4-pg. doc.]