possible to raise my rent 31% ? (rent stabilized renewal)

[gen. specific]

The housing regulations explain this scenario here

Fact Sheet #40: Preferential Rents

thats unfortunate

[Harlem resident]

Originally Posted by gen. specific

yes, this is exactly the situation I explained. When the previous tenant moved out they could have raised the rent 20% at the time, but instead rented it to me at a particular rate (that is lower).

So rent renewal increases are based on what the rent stabilized places value *COULD HAVE BEEN* ? wow, how would any tenant actually know how many vacancies there have been before them. The housing regulations do not explain this at all. Thats kind of the opposite of rent stabilized based on this information.

Call Met Council on Housing.

Avoid DHCR, which may or may not give you correct information.

[Kefir King]

So rent renewal increases are based on what the rent stabilized places value
*COULD HAVE BEEN* ? wow, how would any tenant actually know how many vacancies
there have been before them. The housing regulations do not explain this at all.
Thats kind of the opposite of rent stabilized based on this information.

That information is SUPPOSED to be available at DHCR with a simple postcard, but since DHCR is in the hands of the landlords they provide ZERO useful information. They will either say "we have no information after 2005" or some such gobbledygook that indicates that some of them should be in prison. They stand in the way of tenants having their legal rights upheld...and they are PAID to do it.

I am reasonably certain that more than half the rent-stabilized landlords who have rented apartments in the last 20 years are in serious violation of the Rent Stabilization Law and getting away with it at tenants' expense month after month after month.

[gen. specific]

thanks guys, I've come up with an economical idea that the landlords will like, I'll post here if it works, should let me keep my current rent for another year