East New York has a large regulated and subsidized housing stock, significant recent rezoning activity, and an owner population that ranges from long-held family buildings to newer investors. What they share is a management problem with three simultaneous layers: rent regulation, voucher administration, and an active compliance environment.
Yak Management specializes in exactly that combination.
Rent regulation, handled properly
Buildings with six or more units built before 1974 are generally rent-stabilized, and buildings carrying tax-benefit obligations may be regulated regardless of size or age. We verify status during onboarding rather than assuming, then run the framework: annual DHCR registration, renewal offers in the correct window with the correct guidelines, accurate legal and preferential rent tracking, and a reconciled rent history.
Where a building arrives with unregistered years or a rent history that does not reconcile, we tell you plainly what we found and what it constrains. That is an inherited problem, and it is a finite one once someone inventories it.
Voucher tenancies
Section 8, CityFHEPS, and HASA tenancies are common here and we run them completely — RFTA preparation and follow-up, inspection prep and re-inspection, HAP contract tracking, and monthly reconciliation of tenant and agency portions.
Violations and inspections
An active violation environment punishes reactive management. We pull the building's full HPD and DOB record at onboarding, classify what is open, calendar every deadline including OATH hearing dates, and price a remediation plan. Missed hearings generally default at the maximum penalty for the class, which is the most avoidable expense in this entire area.
Ongoing, the periodic inspection calendar gets tracked and filings verified — performing an inspection and never filing the report leaves the violation in place.
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