Hello all
I live in a building in downtown Brooklyn that has 3 RS Units. 5 Free market units. One of the RS tenants is moving out. How do i make sure this unit remains a RS unit.
The other 5 units are free market and the new building owners raised all there rents from 3,000 per month to 4,500 to 5,000 per month. All of the free market tenants are not from NYC and do not knows the rules governing free market rents. One tenant was told his rent was going up 1,400 and told him 2 weeks before his lease was up.
He contacted the state and was told he had 3 months not 2 weeks since the building owner pulled a fast one.
These are the people i have to deal with when it is my turn for rent renewal. I am RS tenant and on DRIE. I can only guess what they might try on me.
Since they purchased the building earlier this year I'm going to ask for a copy of my RTP-8 lease and DRIE approval letter to see the the old building owners gave it to them. I have this information i want to see if they have the same information on my Unit. My lease is up next year.
So in closing, Is there anything i can do to keep that Unit RS ?