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Sneak Peak: NYC Apartment Management Checklist Digital Edition RELEASED!

Sneak Peak: NYC Apartment Management Checklist Digital Edition RELEASED!

New for 2024, the NYC Apartment Management Checklist is available as a mobile-enabled digital edition that makes it quick and easy to navigate to individual chapters--or simply enter a search term to find the topic throughout the book. Choose from 3 Format Options: Print & Digital, Digital Only, or Print Only

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January 25, 2024 — The Habitat Group
Tags: Apartment Management HPD NYC
The NEW 2024 NYC Apartment Management Checklist IS HERE!

The NEW 2024 NYC Apartment Management Checklist IS HERE!

While the city and the state will tell you WHAT you have to do, you can count on the 2024 NYC Apartment Management Checklist to tell you: WHO has to...
January 08, 2024 — The Habitat Group
DOB No-Penalty Inspection Program Returns with Expanded Offering

DOB No-Penalty Inspection Program Returns with Expanded Offering

For the first year ever, DOB has added building facades, boilers, and private elevators to the inspection program. During the scheduled inspection DOB inspectors will also be available to discuss any additional building concerns that the property owners may have, and direct them on how to obtain additional assistance from the Department.
July 12, 2023 — The Habitat Group
Tags: Apartment Management DOB Inspection NYC
The Legislature’s Continued Assault on the Real Estate Industry

The Legislature’s Continued Assault on the Real Estate Industry

In its latest attempt to violate the Regina ruling, the Legislature has proposed retroactively changing the method for calculating rents in apartments affected by the Roberts ruling.
June 15, 2023 — The Habitat Group
Height and Weight Join the Long List of Protected Classes

Height and Weight Join the Long List of Protected Classes

New York City recently enacted a bill that adds two new additions to the lengthy list of protected classes under the New York City Human Rights Law. The law, which will go into effect on Nov. 22, 2023, makes it illegal to discriminate against an apartment buyer, renter, job applicant, independent contractor, or current employee based on the person’s perceived weight and height.
June 06, 2023 — The Habitat Group
Mayor Announces New Rent Guidelines Board Chair

Mayor Announces New Rent Guidelines Board Chair

NYC Mayor Eric Adams recently announced the appointment of Nestor Davidson as the new chair of the New York City Rent Guidelines Board. The nine-member Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) is responsible for adjusting rents for the one million New York City apartments subject to the city’s rent stabilization law.
March 16, 2023 — The Habitat Group
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March 13, 2023 — The Habitat Group
Bill Introduced to Expand HUD Service Coordinators

Bill Introduced to Expand HUD Service Coordinators

On Sept. 15, Representative Adam Smith (D-WA) introduced the Expanding Service Coordinators Act. The two primary programs that fund service coordinators for residents of federally assisted housing are the Multifamily Housing Service Coordinator program and the Resident Opportunity and Self-Sufficiency Service Coordinator program.
September 22, 2022 — The Habitat Group
Co-Op & Condo Case Watch: Endless Renovations

Co-Op & Condo Case Watch: Endless Renovations

Alteration Agreement Signed In February 2019, Stefan Brodie and Irina Denisova, unit owners in the Aldyn Condominium at 60 Riverside Drive, signed an alteration agreement and submitted the required $10,000 security deposit to renovate their apartment. The project timeline submitted to the board indicated that renovations would be completed by September 2020, but by spring 2022 the work had not been completed. The alteration agreement provided for the assessment of  a $500-per-day charge for each day that the renovation continued beyond a “Required Completion Date.” 

Board Steps In  Because the duration of the project exceeded the board’s expectation, the board issued a “stop work notice,” issued fines, and seized the security deposit the unit owners had paid. 

August 16, 2022 — The Habitat Group
Tags: co-op Co-op and condo renovations
Co-op& Condo Case Watch: Slow Death of a Sweetheart Lease

Co-op& Condo Case Watch: Slow Death of a Sweetheart Lease

67-69 ST. NICHOLAS AVE. HOUS. DEV. FUND CORP. V. GREEN

The board of a South Harlem HDFC co-op at 67 St. Nicholas Ave. engaged in a legal fight over its commercial space. In 2004, when the board president was Siwana Green, the co-op issued a lease for the commercial space to Thomas Green, her husband, and their partnership “A Cup of Harlem.” It was a 99-year sweetheart lease at $700 per month with an option to renew for an additional 10 years at $800 per month. The Greens sublet this space for 10 years (2009 through 2019) at $2,500 per month to Antonio Contreras, who operated a hair salon, renewed the sublease at $2,800 for an additional five years, and netted nearly $350,000 in profit over this period.

August 10, 2022 — The Habitat Group
Owner to Pay Nearly $2M for Illegally Harassing Tenants

Owner to Pay Nearly $2M for Illegally Harassing Tenants

Ink Property Group bought 32 buildings between 2014 and 2019 and forced out at least 80 tenants to offer units at market rate, among many other abuses and predatory practices. To flip the units, Attorney General James said the company worked to strategically force out tenants through buyouts, harassment, and worsening living conditions. An Attorney General's office probe into Ink Property Group began in 2019 following numerous complaints from tenants, according to the settlement.

    August 10, 2022 — The Habitat Group
    Judge: NY Landlord’s ‘Reprehensible’ Discrimination Merits Maximum Penalty

    Judge: NY Landlord’s ‘Reprehensible’ Discrimination Merits Maximum Penalty

    HUD recently announced that an Administrative Law Judge found that a Long Island landlord violated the Fair Housing Act when he refused to rent to a mother and her daughter because of the daughter’s cerebral palsy. The judge ordered the owner to pay $50,530 in damages to the family and a $20,111 civil penalty to the United States. The judge said the landlord’s behavior “merits imposition of a maximum civil penalty.”
    August 09, 2022 — The Habitat Group