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Sunday, 16 October 2016

Ways To How Are MCI Rent Increases Determined

By Kimberly Hall


If the owner of a certain building in New York City, New York will decide to subject the improved or the installed building to rent stabilization or to control law, an owner is authorized to have an increase of the rentals that is based on the installation or the improvements actual costs. And so that they can increase their rent, a major capital improvement must be a new one and not a repaired one. An example for this is when owners receive increases for new wall and not for repaired wall.

In the MCI, it involves different kinds of procedures to get qualified with it such as painting and waterproofing. A code is provided for this in which it is stated there that when applying for the MCI rent increases New York City, it must be filed in 2 years of installation. There are 4 things to be considered when qualifying the improvement or installation as MCI.

One is it must be considered to be depreciable and under the code for internal revenue. Two is it must be purely for the preservation, maintenance, and operation of the building. Three is it must benefit all the tenants directly or indirectly. And four is it must meet all the requirements of useful life schedule.

After the owner will submit the application to the DHCR or the Division of Housing and Community Renewal, the DHCR will notify the tenant and will give them the opportunity for submitting some objections concerning the application. Owners may have the right on keeping the application copies that will serve as their supporting documentation about the premises and also, for a tenant to check on it. The responses of tenants can only be considered before the final determination.

The division is the one to decide whether an owner is permitted to have increases in whole or half parts or whether the permit denied. The division will be computing it based on a period of seven years for amortization costs of MCI. These increases will be the permanent additions to rentals that are regulated legally and are not dropped after a period of 7 years.

However, the owners cannot be able to collect the increased amount from tenants whenever the DHCR has a proof that those requires services are not being maintained. Also, if tenants will receive an order for rent reduction before MCI is being granted. If order is already issued, the owners will have their rights on continuing their collection.

For those apartments that are stabilized, an increased amount is required to be lesser than 6 percent on the bill of the tenant. If the amount is more than 6 percent, this cap will be forwarded into the future years. This situation will affect temporarily the collectibility of a retroactive portion of an MCI.

And for apartments from outside the city, the collectible must not exceed 15 percent of the tenants pill. In this case, there are no retroactive portions. For stabilized apartments, the increased amount will be effective during the first 30 days.

Senior citizens having the Senior Citizen Rent Increase Exemption or the SCRIE are exempted to pay the amount portions. If apartments are vacant or not rented and have pending applications, the incoming tenant should be informed on this. Failure to do this may probably result to not granting the increase.




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