Landlord asked the DHCR for a ruling authorizing rent surcharges retroactive to July 1, 2006, based on tenant's gas usage for heat and cooking gas. Tenant's loft unit became subject to rent stabilization in...
Mitchell-Lama tenants sued HPD after HPD authorized a 221 percent per room, per month rent increase and 2.5 percent increases for the following two years. Tenants claimed that HPD's decision didn't have a...
Landlord applied for an MBR increase for 2016-2017 to rent-controlled tenant's rent. The DRA ruled for landlord. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant claimed that there were pending HPD violations that prevented the...
Landlord applied for a rent increase based on painting a rent-controlled tenant’s apartment, since painting wasn’t a service included in tenant’s rent. Landlord submitted copies of a contract and...
The DRA granted landlord’s application for an increase in the MBR and MCR for rent-controlled tenant. Landlord had replaced tenant’s stove, and tenant signed a consent form for a 1/40th rent increase...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant but found a total overcharge with interest of only $460. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant claimed that landlord failed to prove the cost...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge because, starting in May 2014, landlord retroactively sought to collect minimum dollar rent increases and not the guideline percentage increases under a lease that...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DHCR ruled against tenant, finding that landlord was entitled to a rent increase based on individual apartment improvements (IAIs). Tenant then filed an...
Landlord applied to the DHCR for a rent increase after painting a rent-controlled tenant’s apartment. The DRA ruled for landlord and increased tenant’s rent by $12.50. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant...
Landlord applied to the DHCR for permission to increase rent-controlled tenant’s rent based on painting, which was not a service included in tenant’s rent. The DRA ruled for landlord and increased tenant...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, who appealed and lost. The DRA found that the base rent date was Oct. 16, 2008, four years before tenant filed his complaint. The...
