RENT STABILIZATION COVERAGE

Tenant in 421-a Building Since 1976 Remained Rent Stabilized After Tax Benefits Expired

October 13, 2024    

Tenant in a 421-a building complained that landlord failed to offer him a rent-stabilized renewal lease. Tenant had lived in the apartment since 1976. The DRA ruled for tenant and directed landlord to offer a renewal...

DHCR Reasonably Ruled That Landlord Substantially Rehabbed Building

September 23, 2024    

In 2018, landlord applied to the DHCR for a ruling that its building was exempt from rent stabilization based on a substantial rehabilitation of the premises performed in 1995.

Recent Amendments to Rent Fraud Provisions Not Applied Retroactively to 2019 Complaint

September 23, 2024    

Tenant complained to the DHCR in August 2019 of rent overcharge and fraudulent deregulation of his apartment. Landlord answered that the apartment was lawfully deregulated when the rent reached $2,500 in 2011, that...

Apartment in Building Under HPD Regulatory Agreement Was Subject to Rent Stabilization

September 22, 2024    

Tenant filed a lease violation complaint with the DHCR, claiming that landlord refused to offer him a rent-stabilized renewal lease. Tenant pointed out that he had received rent-stabilized leases from landlord in the...

Apartment Vacancy-Deregulated in 2013 Was No Longer Subject to Overcharge Claim

September 19, 2024    

(Decision submitted by Mary D. Milone of the Manhattan law firm of Borah, Goldstein, Altschuler, Nahins & Goidel, P.C., attorneys for the landlord.)

Apartment Became Vacancy-Deregulated in 2010

September 19, 2024    

(Decision submitted by Mary D. Milone of the Manhattan law firm of Borah, Goldstein, Altschuler, Nahins and Goidel, P.C., attorneys for the landlord.)

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...