UNIT/BUILDING COVERED

Insufficient Proof Building Contained Only Five Apartments

November 24, 2014    

Tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant. Landlord appealed, claiming that the building contained only five apartments and therefore wasn't subject to rent stabilization. The DHCR ruled...

No Proof of Fraud in Deregulation of Apartment After Rent Control

November 24, 2014    

Tenant claimed that he was rent stabilized and complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant. The rent paid by tenant under an unregulated vacancy lease on March 1, 2007, was more than $2,000 per month...

Former Super Who Became Tenant Was Rent Stabilized

October 24, 2014    

Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent. Landlord claimed that tenant owed $17,000. Tenant claimed rent overcharge. The court ruled for landlord and dismissed the overcharge claim. Tenant appealed and...

Tenant Didn't Receive J-51 Lease Riders

October 22, 2014    

Landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of rent-stabilized tenant's apartment in 2010. Tenant answered the DRA's notice of the application by stating that he was exempt from luxury...

DHCR Sets Rent After Apartment Re-regulated

October 17, 2014    

The DHCR revoked a prior order of deregulation of tenant's apartment, creating uncertainty as to what the proper rent should be for the renewal period between Sept. 1, 2009, and Aug. 31, 2011. Landlord, who had...

$2,000 First Rent After Temporary Exemption Didn't Deregulate Apartment

October 15, 2014    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonpayment of rent. Tenant claimed rent...

Landlord Didn't Submit Timely Proof of Apartment Deregulation

September 25, 2014    

Deregulated tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and found that he was rent stabilized and had been overcharged. Landlord appealed and lost. With its PAR, landlord submitted documents...

Tenant in HDFC Co-op Building Remains Rent Stabilized

September 23, 2014    

Tenant complained of rent overcharge. Landlord argued that tenant wasn't subject to rent stabilization. The DRA ruled for tenant. Landlord appealed and lost. Landlord pointed out that the HDFC had acquired the...

Tenant Who Was Previously Registered Is Rent Stabilized

July 18, 2014    

Tenant asked the DHCR to determine whether he was rent stabilized and what the legal apartment rent was. Tenant moved into the apartment in 2002 without a lease and paid $375 per month. New landlord increased tenant...

Building Contains Six Units, Not Four

July 14, 2014    

Tenant claimed that she was rent stabilized and asked the DHCR for a ruling. Tenant claimed that the premises was a six-family horizontal multiple dwelling that shared facilities such as heat, hot water, electric,...

Two-Unit Building Was Part of Horizontal Multiple Dwelling

July 14, 2014    

New landlord asked the DHCR for a ruling on whether tenant of his two-unit building was rent regulated. The DRA ruled for landlord and declared that tenant wasn't rent controlled or rent stabilized. Tenant...

Roberts Ruling Applied Retroactively to Declare Tenant Rent Stabilized

July 14, 2014    

In a dispute between landlord and tenant, the DRA declared that tenant was subject to rent stabilization pursuant to the 2009 ruling of New York's highest court in Roberts v. Tishman Speyer Properties....