Product Details
2022 | 458 pages | Softcover
NOTE: Updated 5th Edition Is Coming January 2025!
Whether seeking rent increases for major capital improvements, dealing with nuisances created by tenants, or following proper procedures for deregulating an apartment, rent-regulated building owners face confusing hurdles that can delay or derail their efforts. This handy guidebook is the one resource—completely updated with the latest rent laws—that will answer your most pressing questions and save you valuable time and energy.
This must-have reference presents plain English explanations of the law and regulations, including: Who Is Affected; What the Law Requires; How to Comply; Deadlines; Penalties for Failure to Comply; Forms Required; and Relevant Text of Law.
The New York Rent Regulation Checklist will help you:
- Protect your legally deregulated apartments from being forced back into regulation
- Deregulate eligible apartments while reducing the risk of agency action
- Win disputes arising from tenant overcharge complaints
- Get maximum allowable rent increases
- Avoid raising red flags that attract the scrutiny of the TPU, the DHCR, and other agencies enforcing the rent regs
Table of Contents:
1. Assignment, Subletting & Roommates
2. Demolition
3. DHCR Powers & Procedures
4. Eviction of Rent-Regulated Tenants
5. Fair Market Rent Appeals
6. Harassment of Tenants
7. Hardship Rent Increase
8. High-Rent/High-Income Deregulation
9. High-Rent Vacancy Deregulation
10. Horizontal Multiple Dwellings
11. Individual Apartment Improvements
12. Leasing Requirements
13. Major Capital Improvements
14. Nuisance by Tenants
15. Owner Occupancy
16. Permanent Tenants: Hotels, SROs, Rooming Houses
17. Pets
18. Preferential Rents
19. Primary Residence
20. Rent Control Coverage
21. Rent Fraud
22. Rent Overcharge
23. Rent Registration
24. Rent Stabilization Coverage
25. Rent Subsidies: SCRIE & DRIE
26. Rent Surcharges for Appliances & Utilities
27. Required Services
28. Security Deposits
29. Short-Term Rentals
30. Substantial Rehabilitation
31. Succession Rights
32. Tax Benefit Programs
33. Temporary Exemption from Rent Stabilization
34. Tenant Protection Unit
35. Miscellaneous Requirements