I'm a tenant not so familiar with NYC tenancy law but trying to understand now. My apartment was rent stabilized when I moved in (I signed a rider) and I've resigned at the same price a few times since then. My landlord now wants to raise my rent by more than the RGB allowance which confused me but then they claimed that my apartment was deregulated due to Regina soon after I moved in. They sent a letter to me that they had claimed that they sent before claiming that
The building had previously received J51 benefits but reached the high rent deregulation in 2013 and that the first vacancy after the expiration of J51 benefits was the one right before I moved in. And therefore that the apartment is deregulated.
My question is what does Regina have to do with any of that? All of that seems like it was true before I moved in and Regina was decided. And everything that I read seems to say Regina is about overcharges and lookback periods etc. That sounds like something that isn't even in the picture when determining the status of an apartment. But, again, I'm new to all this so I could really use some help making heads or tails of this letter