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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Bernstein Management Corp. v. District of Columbia Rental Housing Commission, 952 A.2d 190 (2008)

Citation
Bernstein Management Corp. v. District of Columbia Rental Housing Commission, 952 A.2d 190 (2008)
Parent Document
Bernstein Management Corp. v. District of Columbia Rental Housing Commission, 952 A.2d 190 (2008)
Jurisdiction
DC (municipal)
Effective Date
2008-07-10

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At the hearing before the Rent Administrator, the tenant submitted an exhibit that detailed petitioner’s annual increases in the rent and the rent ceiling from 1997 to 2002. The amount petitioner represented as the rent ceding, beginning in 1997, and the rent charged for the years 2000-2003, exceeded the ceiling of $772 that had been established in 1996. Petitioner did not dispute the tenant’s exhibit or that it had represented that the permissible rent ceding was greater than that established in 1996. Instead, it asserted that it had done so believing that a preexisting ceiling adjustment allowed the increased adjustments to the ceiling (and consequently, to the rent charged), but did not provide any reason or documentation to support that assertion. The Rent Administrator specifically addressed — and dismissed — petitioner’s claimed rebanee on an unidentified rent ceding adjustment, finding it “unlikely, given the evidence on the record, that such a ceding increase existed.”