SUBSTANTIAL REHABILITATION

Landlord Doesn't Prove Building Exempt Due to Substantial Rehab

August 25, 2020    

Landlord asked the DHCR for a ruling that its building was exempt from rent stabilization due to substantial rehabilitation after Jan. 1, 1974. Landlord claimed that the building's interior was demolished and...

Landlord Can't Prove Building Was Substantially Rehabbed

June 26, 2020    

Landlord asked the DHCR for a ruling that his building was exempt from rent stabilization based on substantial rehabilitation. The DHCR ruled against landlord, who then filed an Article 78 court appeal. Landlord...

Landlord Replaced Less Than 75 Percent of Building Systems

June 24, 2020    

Landlord applied to the DHCR for a ruling that its building was exempt from rent stabilization due to substantial rehabilitation performed in 2017-2018. Landlord responded to several requests from the DRA for...

No Substantial Rehab Where DOB Revoked Work Permit

June 24, 2020    

Landlord asked the DHCR for a ruling that its building was exempt from rent stabilization due to substantial rehabilitation performed in 2003 while the building was at least 80 percent vacant  after a 1999 fire...

Landlord Didn't Prove Building Was Substantially Rehabbed

June 24, 2020    

Landlord asked the DHCR for a ruling that its building was exempt from rent stabilization due to substantial rehabilitation. The DRA ruled against landlord, who appealed and lost.

Landlord claimed that: (a)...

Landlord Must Give Tenant Rent-Stabilized Lease Absent Substantial Rehab Ruling

March 23, 2020    

Tenant complained that landlord failed to offer a proper rent-stabilized renewal lease. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to offer a renewal lease, while acknowledging that landlord had a pending court...

Tenant Who Relocated Within Building at Landlord's Request Remained Rent Stabilized

October 28, 2019    

Tenant complained that landlord refused to offer her a rent-stabilized renewal lease. The DRA ruled for tenant and directed landlord to give tenant a renewal lease. Landlord appealed and lost. In a separate...

Tenants in Occupancy When DOB Issued Sign-Off Remained Stabilized After Substantial Rehab

September 24, 2019    

Landlord asked the DHCR for a ruling that its building was exempt from rent regulation due to substantial rehabilitation after Jan. 1, 1974. The DRA ruled for landlord but stated that all tenants who lived in the...

Rehabbed Building Wasn't Exempt from Rent Stabilization

September 21, 2019    

Landlord sued to evict unregulated month-to-month tenant. Tenant claimed that he was rent stabilized. Landlord argued that the building was substantially rehabilitated after 1974 and therefore wasn't subject to...

Landlord's Building Work Didn't Qualify as Substantial Rehab

August 26, 2019    

Landlord applied to the DHCR for a ruling on whether its building was exempt from rent stabilization due to substantial rehabilitation. The DRA ruled against landlord, who appealed and lost. Landlord claimed that the...

Building Exempt from Rent Stabilization Due to Substantial Rehab

May 21, 2019    

Tenant asked the DHCR to determine her apartment's regulatory status. She claimed that she was rent stabilized. Landlord claimed that it bought the building in 1989 and then performed a gut rehabilitation of the...

Eviction Case Stayed Until DHCR Determines If Building Was Substantially Rehabbed

April 25, 2019    

Landlord sued to evict unregulated, month-to-month tenant. Tenant claimed that she was rent stabilized although landlord argued that the building was exempt from rent stabilization because the building had been...