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The Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) is mandated by law to establish yearly rent adjustments for rent-stabilized apartments in New York City. The board holds an annual series of public meetings and hearings to consider research from staff and testimony from owners, tenants, advocacy groups, and industry experts.

The Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR) recently updated its website with the necessary forms you have to fill out to start the process for increasing the rents of your rent-controlled apartments during the 2016-17 maximum base rent (MBR) cycle. Once you receive the orders of eligibility, you can raise your MBRs by 9.6 percent over their 2014–15 levels. The MBR increase for this cycle is higher than the 8.3 percent increase used in 2014–15.

The rents in rent-controlled apartments in New York City are governed by the Maximum Base Rent (MBR) system. This system is based on a mathematical formula for computing the maximum rent levels for each controlled apartment in the city. This theoretical MBR represents an approximation of the actual income required to operate the housing unit under current costs, including an 8.5 percent return on the equalized assessed value. The MBR is adjusted every two years to reflect changes in economic conditions.

If you sign a vacancy lease with a tenant between Oct. 1, 2015, and Sept. 30, 2016, the new order issued on June 29 by the Rent Guidelines Board (RGB)—RGBO #47—lets you collect the vacancy increases permitted under the Rent Regulation Reform Act of 1997 (RRRA).

If you have a tenant who’s paying a monthly rent of $2,500 or more for a rent-controlled or rent-stabilized apartment, it might be time to send out the second of two Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR) forms that may eventually lead to deregulation of the apartment. If you miss the deadline, you will have to wait until next year to apply for deregulation.

The Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) is mandated by law to establish yearly rent adjustments for rent-stabilized apartments in New York City. The board holds an annual series of public meetings and hearings to consider research from staff and testimony from owners, tenants, advocacy groups, and industry experts.

If you sign a vacancy lease with a tenant between Oct. 1, 2014, and Sept. 30, 2015, the new order issued on June 23 by the Rent Guidelines Board (RGB)—RGBO #46—lets you collect the vacancy increases permitted under the Rent Regulation Reform Act of 1997 (RRRA).

On June 23, 2014, the New York City Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) issued an order—RGBO #46—setting the rent increases you may take for rent-stabilized tenants in New York City on leases beginning anytime on or after Oct. 1, 2014, through Sept. 30, 2015.

If you own a building with more than 35 apartments, you pay a building employee extra to make improvements to an apartment, and the employee does the work outside normal working hours, you can collect a monthly rent increase amounting to 1/60th of what you pay the employee. The increase bumps up to 1/40th of the cost of improvements for buildings containing 35 or fewer apartments.

When Can You Get Rent Hike?

You can get a rent hike for the employee’s labor if:

If you sign a vacancy lease with a tenant between Oct. 1, 2013, and Sept. 30, 2014, the new order issued on June 20 by the Rent Guidelines Board (RGB)--RGBO #45--lets you collect the vacancy increases permitted under the Rent Regulation Reform Act of 1997 (RRRA).