Mount Vernon, NY — landlord and rental rules

ETPA generally stabilizes non-rent-controlled apartments in buildings with six or more units completed before 1974, with renewal, service and permitted-increase rules administered by HCR.

Six units is the statewide general floor. A municipality may adopt a narrower class or a higher threshold, so confirm the building's HCR registration and the local declaration before concluding that it binds.

HCR's current Fact Sheet 8 lists this municipality as participating. ETPA does not apply county-wide: neighboring municipalities inherit no rent-stabilization claim from this entry.

Vacancy decontrol

No

Unit counts

6+ units

Construction

Built before 1974

The 2024 Good Cause Eviction law requires good cause to evict or to refuse renewal, but exempts landlords owning 10 or fewer units statewide.

The exemption is counted on the *owner's* total holdings, not the building — and there is active litigation attempting to pierce LLCs to aggregate beneficial ownership.

Municipalities outside New York City opt in, and several have tightened the exemption to 1–4 units, so upstate is harder than the statewide baseline rather than softer.

Unit counts

Up to 10 units

In effect since 2024-04-20.

Absentee owners register annually, and each vacant rental offered for rerental must be inspected and certified before reoccupancy.

The inspection request is due within two days after vacancy. City pages and the displayed code disagree on the fee, so no fee is projected.