NYS DHCR Office of Rent Administration, Overcharge R-PAR Orders (July 1 - Sept 29 2025, Part 2)

The RA found that the subject apartment is no longer regulated by the Rent Stabilization
Code (RSC) and is outside DHCRjurisdiction, pursuant to the 2014 Amendments effective January
8, 2014 and to RSC Section 2520.l l(r).

On PAR, the tenant contends that her apartment is rent-stabi Iized; that the apartment was
fraudu lently deregulated; that the owner's allegation that the rent was $2,005.00 per month, just
$5.00 over the deregulation threshold, in 2005 is suspicious and is evidence of fraud; that the
preferential rent for that same year was $1 ,500.00 per month; that there is no further information
about the 2005 tenants and no further evidence was requested of the owner; that the last recorded
rent was $600.48 in 1996 and it is unbelievable that the rent increased $1,405.00 in nine years to
exactly $5.00 over the deregulation threshold; that this raises questions about the $2,005.00 rent in
2005; that there was no legal deregulation on record between l 996 and 2005; that, when she moved
into the apartment in 2009, the rent suddenly dropp{;d to $1,650.00 per month and it is unbelievable
that the rent would decrease for a "market'' apartment; that the owner claimed that it charged this
rent in 2009 as a favor to the tenant even though there was no personal relationship between owner
and tenant; that her rent was below $1,925.00 per month from 2009-2022; that it makes no sense that
the owner would keep the rent below the deregulation threshold for all these years if the apartment
was deregulated and when the owner could have charged much more for many years; and that the
reason for such low rents is that the apartment is stabilized and the owner knows that it is stabilized.