Landlord filed an Article 78 appeal of the DHCR’s decision that an apartment remained subject to rent control and that landlord wasn’t entitled to rent increases for certain apartment renovations. The...
Landlord, who owned a cooperative apartment occupied by rent-controlled tenant, applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant’s apartment in 2008. The DHCR ruled against landlord. Landlord had...
Landlord asked the DHCR to determine tenant’s rent regulatory status. The DRA ruled that tenant was rent controlled. Landlord appealed and lost. It didn’t matter that the building didn’t have three...
Tenant living in a three-apartment building claimed that she was rent controlled because she had lived there since 1969. The DRA ruled against tenant. The DRA found that tenant was exempt from rent control under...
Landlord sued to evict tenant from a building containing fewer than six apartments. Landlord claimed that tenant was unregulated. Tenant claimed that she was rent controlled and had lived in the apartment since 1968...
Landlord asked the DHCR to determine tenants' status. The DRA ruled that tenants were rent controlled. Landlord appealed and lost. Evidence supported a finding that tenants were rent controlled. The building...
Landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant's rent-controlled apartment in 2006. The DRA ruled against landlord, finding that tenant's household income didn't exceed $175,000 in...
DOB ordered 85-year-old rent-controlled tenant to vacate her apartment while structural repairs were completed. At the same time, the DHCR issued an order confirming tenant's right to return to the apartment when...
Landlord applied in 2010 for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant's rent-controlled apartment. The DRA ruled for landlord in March 2014 after finding that tenant's annual household income exceeded the...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge. She claimed that, although new landlord gave her a rent-stabilized renewal lease, she was rent controlled. The DRA ruled that tenant was rent controlled, but found no overcharge...
