Rent Destabilization

You can have a housing attorney submit a foil request for historical rent registration / deregulation documents for a few hundred bucks. If it wasn’t done correctly then you might consider significant redevelopment in order to avoid potential issues of improperly renting stabilized units. Triple damages can be awarded to tenants for this kind of paperwork error if it occurred

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jose3505 | 3 years and 2 months ago

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Hello all, my parents did a gut renovation of their townhouse in the 1980s and have been operating under the assumption that the apartments they rent are free market rentals since then. A real estate broker who is interested in selling my mother’s place has put a bee in my bonnet that it would be good to confirm that the paperwork to destabilize the house was in fact correctly filed. He mentioned that he has seen a number of sellers who have been blindsighted by administrative errors resulting in their rentals being subject to rent stabilization under more stringent destabilization rules. Looking for a recommendation for a lawyer who might help shepherd us through this process — as well as any thoughts or wisdom anyone would like to share to soothe my palpitating heart! 🙂

Lurker | 3 years and 2 months ago

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You can look on HPD website perhaps? Or here https://rentguidelinesboard.cityofnewyork.us/resources/rent-stabilized-building-lists/

resident2 | 3 years and 2 months ago

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If the “gut renovation” included a new certificate of occupancy & the work was done without benefit of a J51 tax abatement etc & the whole building was completely reconfigured. The building should not be Rent Stabilized, that said it still needed to be de-registered with Rent Stabilization. RS kept all the records until 1984 when the State took over: Department of Housing & Community Renewal (DHCR)
First: What is the date on the CofO ? Is the C of O a complete new CofO or an amended CofO? Have all of the leases since the gut renovation included a clause stating :
“Tenant is aware that this lease is for an apartment that does not fall under any form of “rent control“ or rent stabilization, pursuant to section 2520:11 (e) of the rent stabilization code, as it is a housing accommodation in a building completed after 01/01/74. ”
For the building to not be Rent Stabilized it needs to have a completely new CofO at the time of the “Gut Rehab”.
DO NOT CONSULT THE RENT GUIDELINES BOARD.