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Rent-Controlled Tenants' Daughter Gets Succession Rights After Tenants Switch Apartments

July 22, 2024    

The daughter of rent-controlled tenants complained to the DHCR that landlord refused to offer her a rent-stabilized renewal lease after her parents died and the  prior lease expired on June 30, 2016. Tenant said...

Rent-Stabilized Tenant's Son Gets Apartment

July 22, 2024    

The son of a deceased rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR that landlord refused to give him a renewal lease after tenant died. The son claimed succession rights to the apartment. The DRA ruled for the son....

Sons of Prior Co-Tenants Get Succession Rights

June 26, 2024    

Landlord sued to evict two apartment occupants who remained in the apartment after prior rent-stabilized tenants moved out. Landlord claimed that their license to remain in the apartment was now terminated. The...

Son Gets Tenant's Rent-Stabilized Apartment

May 20, 2024    

The son of a rent-stabilized tenant claimed succession rights to the apartment in a complaint to the DHCR after tenant moved out. The son claimed that landlord refused to give him a renewal lease. The DRA ruled for...

Tenant's Grandson Gets Rent-Controlled Apartment

May 19, 2024    

An apartment occupant who claimed to be the grandson of a deceased rent-controlled tenant claimed succession rights by filing a complaint with the DHCR. The DRA ruled for the grandson. Landlord appealed and lost....

Occupant Doesn't Prove Succession Rights to Grandmother's Rent-Controlled Apartment

April 22, 2024    

Apartment occupant complained to the DHCR that landlord refused to give him a renewal lease. He claimed succession rights to a rent-controlled apartment he said he'd lived in with his grandmother since 2018. The...

Tenant's Son Fails to Prove Succession Rights

February 20, 2024    

A rent-stabilized tenant's son complained to the DHCR that landlord refused to offer him a renewal lease after tenant moved out of the apartment. The DRA ruled against the son, who appealed and lost. The DRA had...

Rent-Stabilized Tenant's Niece Proves Succession Rights as Nontraditional Family Member

January 22, 2024    

Landlord sued to evict apartment occupant after rent-stabilized tenant died. Landlord claimed that the occupant, who was the tenant's niece, no longer had a license to occupy the apartment. The trial court ruled...

Daughter Gets Rent-Stabilized Tenant's Apartment

December 18, 2023    

Apartment occupant claimed succession rights to a rent-stabilized apartment after tenant died in August 2019. The tenant was occupant's mother. The DRA ruled for occupant. Landlord filed a request for...

No Succession Rights for Daughter Where Rent-Stabilized Tenant Still Lived in the Apartment

November 20, 2023    

Apartment occupant filed a lease violation complaint with the DHCR, claiming that landlord refused to give her a lease in her own name after the rent-stabilized tenant moved out. The occupant claimed that she was the...

NYCHA Tenant's Son Can't Get Apartment

September 24, 2023    

NYCHA tenant's son claimed succession rights to an apartment after tenant died in 2018. NYCHA ruled against the son and denied his Remaining Family Member status application after a grievance hearing. The son...

Court Denies Pre-Trial Discovery to Occupant Claiming Succession Rights

May 23, 2023    

Landlord sued to evict apartment occupant after rent-stabilized tenant moved out. The occupant, who said he was tenant's son, claimed succession rights. After conducting pre-trial questioning, landlord asked the...