RENT STABILIZATION COVERAGE

Court Permits Discovery of Rent Records Back to 2006

August 27, 2024    

Landlord sued to evict unregulated tenant for nonpayment of rent based on tenant's failure to pay monthly rent of $3,200. Tenant, represented by counsel, claimed that the building didn't have a proper...

Court Rejects Prior Standard Used to Determine Apartment Deregulation Fraud

August 27, 2024    

Landlord sued to evict unregulated tenant for nonpayment of rent owed in the amount of $1,800 per month. Tenant claimed that her apartment was improperly deregulated and that she'd been overcharged. Tenant later...

Hudson Valley Owners Group Can Appeal Kingston's ETPA Adoption to NY's Highest Court

August 27, 2024    

A group of owners of buildings that became subject to rent stabilization under the City of Kingston’s August 2022 adoption of the ETPA filed a challenge to the city’s actions, arguing that the vacancy...

Landlord Proved Apartment Was High-Rent Vacancy Deregulated Before 2019

August 26, 2024    

Tenant complained to the DHCR of improper deregulation of his apartment and rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that landlord showed it had a right to deregulate the apartment when the rent level...

Building Converted from 6 to 5 Apartments After 1974 Remained Rent Stabilized

August 26, 2024    

Tenant claimed that he was rent stabilized and asked the DHCR to make a ruling on the building's rent-regulatory status. The DRA found that the building was rent stabilized.

Tenant's Building Was Part of Horizontal Multiple Dwelling

August 26, 2024    

Tenant complained to the DHCR that landlord failed to offer him a rent-stabilized renewal lease. Landlord claimed that tenant's building contained fewer than six apartments and therefore wasn't subject to...

2001 DOB Violation Report Proves Building Contained Six or More Dwelling Units

July 26, 2024    

Landlord sued to evict month-to-month tenant in 2020 and stated that tenant wasn't rent stabilized because the building contained fewer than six apartments. In response, tenant claimed that the building was rent...

Insufficient Grounds for Tenant's Fraudulent Deregulation Claim

July 26, 2024    

Tenant sued landlord, claiming that landlord had fraudulently raised his apartment rent in January 2001 to remove the unit from rent stabilization through vacancy deregulation. Tenant also claimed that there was a...

DHCR Decision That Apartment Had Been Deregulated Upheld by Appeals Court

July 25, 2024    

Tenant complained to the DHCR of improper deregulation of his apartment and rent overcharge. The DHCR ruled against tenant, finding that the apartment had been vacancy deregulated more than six years before the base...

Apartment in Building Under HPD Regulatory Agreement Was Mistakenly Registered with DHCR

July 22, 2024    

Tenant complained to the DHCR that landlord failed to offer her a renewal lease on the same terms and conditions as the expiring lease. The DRA terminated the proceeding, finding it had no jurisdiction because the...

Former Hospital Employee-Occupant Didn't Become Subject to Rent Stabilization Upon Retirement

July 22, 2024    

Tenant sought a ruling from the DHCR that he was subject to rent stabilization. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that his occupancy was contingent upon his employment with Maimonides Medical Center (MMC) and was...

Landlord Didn't Document Sub Rehab or Show Building Was 80% Vacant Before Work Began

July 22, 2024    

Landlord applied to the DHCR for a ruling that its building was exempt from rent stabilization due to substantial rehabilitation of the building that took place after Dec. 31, 1973. The DRA ruled against landlord...