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Each month Landlord v. Tenant provides approximately 50 summaries of recent landlord-tenant court cases and agency decisions from more than a dozen courts and agencies, including the NYS Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR) and NYC Environmental Control Board. Landlord v. Tenant takes readers through each dispute, streamlining research and arming attorneys with the legal ammunition they need, quickly and easily.
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BUILDING VIOLATIONS:
Tenant Gets 100% Rent Abatement for Roof Leaks
Categories: BUILDING VIOLATIONS
EVICTION:
Condo Tenants Presented No Reasonable Excuse for Failure to Answer Ejectment Petition
Categories: EVICTION
Tenant’s Late Payment of Rent Wasn’t Good Cause to Terminate Tenancy
Categories: EVICTION
FAIR MARKET RENT APPEALS:
Initial Rent-Stabilized Rent Wasn’t Challenged by Fair Market Rent Appeal
Categories: FAIR MARKET RENT APPEALS
HARASSMENT:
Landlord Who Delayed Restoration of Fire-Damaged Units Fined for Tenant Harassment
Categories: HARASSMENT
HEAT & HOT WATER:
Landlord Can Amend Its Claim Against Insurer That Denied Coverage for Heating Loss
Categories: HEAT & HOT WATER
LANDLORD'S NEGLIGENCE:
Landlord Didn’t Show Storm Was in Progress When Tenant Fell on Wet Lobby Floor
Categories: LANDLORD'S NEGLIGENCE
Landlord Negligently Erased Video Evidence of Accident Injuring Tenant’s Son
Categories: LANDLORD'S NEGLIGENCE
Landlord Not Responsible for Intoxicated Tenant’s Fall on Staircase
Categories: LANDLORD'S NEGLIGENCE
Landlords Not Responsible for Slip and Fall in Hotel Room Bathroom
Categories: LANDLORD'S NEGLIGENCE
LEAD PAINT:
Former Tenant Presents Insufficient Proof to Support Claim of Lead-Based Paint Exposure
Categories: LEAD PAINT
LOFTS:
Optional SoHo/NoHo JLWQA Conversion Fee Is Not a Fifth Amendment Taking
Categories: LOFTS
PASSING ON APARTMENTS:
Rent-Stabilized Tenant’s Stepson Proves Succession Rights
Categories: PASSING ON APARTMENTS
Tenant’s Niece Can’t Get Mitchell-Lama Apartment
Categories: PASSING ON APARTMENTS
PRIMARY RESIDENCE:
Court Grants Requests from Both Landlord and Tenant for Pre-Trial Questioning
Categories: PRIMARY RESIDENCE
PROCEDURE-COURT:
Eviction Case Against Federally Regulated Tenant Dismissed for Failure to Include VAWA Notice
Categories: PROCEDURE-COURT
Landlord’s Combined Rent Reminder and Rent Demand Notice Was Fatally Defective
Categories: PROCEDURE-COURT
PROCEDURE-DHCR:
Court Directs DHCR to Reconsider Landlord’s ETPA Exemption Application
Categories: PROCEDURE-DHCR
High-Rent/High-Income Deregulation Applications Properly Dismissed Post-HSTPA
Categories: PROCEDURE-DHCR
Rent-Controlled Tenants’ Daughter Not Authorized to File Overcharge Complaint
Categories: PROCEDURE-DHCR
RENT:
Landlord Can’t Seek Unpaid Rent from Tenant While Other Building Occupancy Violates C of O
Categories: RENT
Tenant’s Appeal of Termination of Section 8 Subsidy Was Untimely
Categories: RENT
RENT OVERCHARGE:
DHCR Must Ask for Proof of Payment of Individual Apartment Improvements
Categories: RENT OVERCHARGE
Increasing Preferential Rent During Lease Term Caused Overcharge
Categories: RENT OVERCHARGE
Landlord Can’t Charge Rent-Stabilized Tenants a Fee for Water Usage
Categories: RENT OVERCHARGE
Landlord Can’t Correct Amount of Outstanding Rent on Appeal in Overcharge Case
Categories: RENT OVERCHARGE
Landlord Properly Set First Rent for Newly Created Apartment
Categories: RENT OVERCHARGE
No Deregulation Found Where Landlord Registered Unit Annually as Rent-Stabilized
Categories: RENT OVERCHARGE
No Proof of Fraudulent Deregulation Found in Rent Overcharge Case
Categories: RENT OVERCHARGE
No Rent Overcharge or Fraud Found by DHCR
Categories: RENT OVERCHARGE
No Triple Damages Where Some Proof of Disallowed IAIs Was Submitted
Categories: RENT OVERCHARGE
Rent Overcharge Found Where No Preferential Rent Stated in Vacancy Lease
Categories: RENT OVERCHARGE
Tenant Who Was Part of Class Action Overcharge Claim Can’t Seek Same Relief from DHCR
Categories: RENT OVERCHARGE
Tenant’s Apartment Was Lawfully Deregulated Before She Moved In
Categories: RENT OVERCHARGE
RENT STABILIZATION COVERAGE:
Apartment Re-regulated Under J-51 Was Again Deregulated When Tax Benefits Ended
Categories: RENT STABILIZATION COVERAGE
Landlord Doesn’t Prove Building Was Substantially Rehabilitated
Categories: RENT STABILIZATION COVERAGE
Mistaken Registration as Rent-Stabilized Didn’t Alter Apartment’s Deregulated Status
Categories: RENT STABILIZATION COVERAGE
No Rent Fraud Found Under Totality of the Circumstances
Categories: RENT STABILIZATION COVERAGE
Tenant Claims Apartment Is Rent-Stabilized
Categories: RENT STABILIZATION COVERAGE
Tenant Remained Rent-Stabilized After Apartment Transfer
Categories: RENT STABILIZATION COVERAGE
Tenants Allege Rent-Stabilized Status Due to Sham Cooperative Claim
Categories: RENT STABILIZATION COVERAGE
WARRANTY OF HABITABILITY:
Co-op Tenant Claims Breach of Warranty of Habitability
Categories: WARRANTY OF HABITABILITY
