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COMPLEX ISSUES ARISE IN RETROACTIVELY DETERMINING THE APPROPRIATE RENTAL AMOUNT FOR A RENT STABILIZED APARTMENT OCCUPIED BY THE SAME TENANTS SINCE 2000.

The First Department, in a full-fledged opinion by Justice Gische, dealt with complex issues relating to the appropriate rental amount for a rent stabilized apartment occupied by the same tenants since 2000:

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There are interlocking complex issues framed by this appeal involving plaintiffs’ claims that the apartment they have continuously rented for the last 16 years (apartment 5M), was improperly removed from rent stabilization. The overarching issue is whether the apartment should be restored to rent stabilization because defendant 72A Realty Associates L.P. (the Owner) deregulated the apartment pursuant to the luxury decontrol laws while it was simultaneously receiving tax incentives under the City’s J-51 program … . There can be little dispute that following Roberts v Tishman Speyer Props., L.P., (13 NY3d 270 [2009]) and its progeny applying Roberts retroactively … the subject apartment must be returned to rent stabilization as of 2000, when the Owner first treated the apartment as exempt. The thornier issues implicated by returning the apartment to rent stabilization concern the setting of the stabilized rent, the base date for, and the statute of limitations applicable to, the setting of such rent, and the possible imposition of treble damages and attorney fees. We agree with Supreme Court that plaintiffs are entitled to a declaration that the apartment was and still is subject to rent stabilization and that they are the rent-stabilized tenants thereof. We also agree with Supreme Court that the issues of the legal rent, as well as the issues of possible overcharge, treble damages and attorneys fees cannot be resolved on a motion for summary judgment. We disagree with Supreme Court only insofar as it held that the increases made to the rent-stabilized rent in 2000, based upon individual apartment improvements (IAIs) before the plaintiffs took occupancy, are subject to challenge on this record. Taylor v 72A Realty Assoc., L.P., 2017 NY Slip Op 04218, 1st Dept 5-25-17

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