Vol. 28 Nbr. 14, February 2014
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Index
- Landlord gets $30,000 in attorney's fees in pet case.
- Landlord waited too long to seek attorney's fees.
- Tenant gets attorney's fees after defeating breach-of-lease claim.
- Tenant can join Mt. Vernon Building Department to nonpayment case.
- Tenant rejected landlord's reasonable accommodation offer.
- Containers holding rain water could draw mosquitoes.
- Ignorance of mattress sealing rule no excuse.
- Landlord changed gas valve on hot water heater without permit.
- Landlord put recyclables in cardboard boxes.
- Landlord used two-family house for illegal tourist hostel.
- Man fined $2,000 for removing recyclables.
- Eviction warrant reinstated after bankruptcy case completed.
- Landlord can evict tenant to renovate apartment, raise rent.
- Landlord waited too long to seek eviction.
- Plastic hangers are not recyclable.
- Tenant gets stay of eviction in bankruptcy court.
- Housing program residents claim harassment, unlawful evictions, other abuses.
- Landlord didn't renew fuel tank permit.
- Rent overcharge complaint converted to fair market rent appeal.
- Tenant can be evicted for family member's criminal activity.
- 6 percent of apartments had water seepage after facade work.
- Door plates and floor signs don't qualify as MCIs.
- Loft tenants can't partition loft.
- New cornice installed with facade restoration qualifies as MCI.
- No MCI increase for leaking, bubbling roof.
- Landlord didn't accurately report commercial space in building.
- MCI increase temporarily offset by 50 percent of annual J-51 benefit.
- No MCI rent hike for piecemeal parapet replacement.
- Tenant's nephew can't get rent-stabilized apartment.
- Tenant's niece can't get rent-stabilized apartment.
- Court can't default tenant for not making interim rent payment.
- Court, not DHCR, must rule on tenants' overcharge claims.
- Landlord didn't properly identify regulatory status in petition.
- Landlord waived no-pets clause but no attorney's fees for tenant.
- Tenant must walk dog outside with leash and muzzle.
- Former residents have no claim against unlicensed assisted living facility.
- Insufficient proof of chronic nonpayment of rent.
- Landlord didn't comply with settlement terms.
- Tenant can't vacate default judgment.
- DHCR limits 1/40th rent increase for painting.
- No triple damages where landlord made apartment improvements.
- Triple damages revoked based on landlord's good-faith belief of legal rent.
- Triple damages revoked upon DHCR reconsideration.
- No proof of fraud warranted piercing four-year rule.
- No service reduction found with electric door key access.
- Overcharge results after high-income deregulation voided.
- Tenant's fraud claim dismissed.
- Intercom system still defective.
- Landlord could collect renewal lease rent upon rent restoration.
- Smoke and CO detectors not required in hallways.
- Tenant challenges landlord's claimed high-rent vacancy deregulation.
- Tenant lost gas service due to gas leak shut-off.
- Apartment deregulated in high-rent/high-income proceeding.
- Building and tenant were rent stabilized.
- Co-tenant added after J-51 benefits expired remains rent stabilized.
- Landlord doesn't prove high-rent vacancy deregulation of apartment.
- Did single incident of vandalism by tenant's guest violate lease?
- Landlord can move and reduce laundry room service.
- Tenant fails to prove breach of warranty of habitability.