Unregulated tenant complained of rent overcharge and improper deregulation of her apartment. The DRA ruled against tenant, who appealed and won. The DHCR ruled in its PAR decision that the apartment was rent...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2016. The DRA ruled for tenant in 2018, applying a four-year base date to review of the apartment rent history. Tenant appealed, and claimed that HSTPA, which...
During March 2018, while an apartment was vacant, landlord made various individual apartment improvements (IAIs) costing $57,000. Under the law in effect when the IAIs were completed, landlord was entitled to add a...
Landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of rent-stabilized tenant's apartment in 2009. Landlord claimed that tenant never responded to the Income Certification Form (ICF) that landlord had sent to...
Tenant complained to the DHCR in 2016 of a reduction in services. The DRA ruled for tenant and reduced his rent. Landlord, a cooperative corporation, appealed and won. The building had been converted to a co-op while...
Various rent-stabilized tenants complained of reductions of service in their apartments. The DRA ruled on 13 cases, dismissing 11 and reducing the rents of two tenants based on apartment conditions. Landlord appealed...
Landlord of building complex applied for maximum base rent (MBR) increases for 10 rent-controlled apartments. The DHCR ruled against landlord, finding that landlord failed to pay MBR fees. Landlord then filed an...
The DHCR's Tenant Protection Unit (TPU) sued landlord LLC entities of 38 buildings containing more than 2,500 rent-stabilized apartments, along with individuals who were connected with the landlord entities. The...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of a reduction in services. The DRA initially had ruled against tenant in March 2017, finding that a community room playground and parking lot gate were maintained. However, upon...
Tenant complained that landlord failed to offer her a rent-stabilized renewal lease. The DRA ruled for tenant after landlord failed to answer the complaint, and ordered landlord to offer tenant a one- or two-year...
Landlord asked the DHCR to determine the legal rent for tenant's SRO unit after a court ruled that tenant was a rent-stabilized permanent tenant. Tenant had checked into the SRO building in August 2015, paid a...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, who appealed and lost. Tenant claimed that the DHCR had issued a rent reduction order that affected the collectable rent for her apartment. But...
