Hi All,
I'm an RS tenant in NYC, paying a PR. This seems like a pretty basic question, but I haven't been able to find anything definite about it online. I recently received an MCI rent increase order, and I was wondering if the LL could apply that increase to my rent. My lease contains the requisite clause for MCI increases, but there's nothing about raising a PR if an MCI increase is approved, in either the vacancy lease or the PR rider. And for what it's worth, I've never received a copy of my annual rent registration from the LL. I have yet to get a copy of my rent history, but I intend to.
PRs are almost entirely unregulated by the state: they're generally market rate, offered where the apt's legal maximum rent is higher than the area's going rate, and LLs may raise them by a percentage greater than that set by the RGB. In such a situation, it doesn't make much sense that the DHCR could order a rent increase, but who says what the DHCR does has to make sense?