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What Role Do I Play?
As a SCRIE landlord, you are primarily responsible for seven things:
- Helping the SCRIE Office verify tenant status, rental amounts, and building information during the application process.
- Serving your tenants in a timely manner with rental documents such as renewal leases for rent stabilized tenants and DHCR-issued orders for rent controlled tenants. You must also ensure that Major Capital Improvement (MCI) Orders are served to rent stabilized and rent controlled tenants. MCI worksheets should not be substituted for the actual MCI order.
- Collecting the appropriate rent each month and handling any retroactive adjustments.
Important note: It is unlawful to collect, or attempt to collect, from the tenant any payment that is more than the SCRIE authorized rent while a valid Approval Order is in effect. Under no circumstances may a landlord retain any overpayment from the tenant while waiting for TACs to be applied to the owner's account at DOF.
- Monitoring your SCRIE Statement of Account issued by DOF each quarter to ensure you are receiving what you are entitled to receive as authorized by DFTA.
- Keeping the SCRIE Office abreast of rent increases and decreases, changes in building status, ownership or management, and changes in your tenant's status due to a move or death.
- Registering your rent stabilized apartments with DHCR every year in April and filing appropriate building and rental information. Owners of rent controlled apartments can apply for Maximum Base Rent (MBR) adjustments every two years.
- Reporting any suspected fraudulent claim for SCRIE by a tenant.
