Tenant filed a fair market rent appeal (FMRA) in 2019, claiming improper deregulation of his apartment in 1999. The DRA ruled against tenant and found that the apartment had been deregulated on June 21, 1999, when...
Tenant sued landlord, seeking a declaration that her tenancy was subject to rent stabilization and that her apartment was illegally deregulated in 2000 when landlord and a prior apartment occupant reached a "...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge, claiming that landlord charged an inflated rent increase for individual apartment improvements (IAIs), that landlord collected a 30 percent rent...
A deregulated, market-rent tenant sued landlord claiming that the unit was unlawfully deregulated after the prior rent-controlled tenant vacated. Landlord asked the court to dismiss the case and presented leases and...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA found no overcharge and dismissed the complaint. Tenant appealed and won, in part. Tenant moved into the apartment in 2011 and filed his...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA converted the complaint to a fair market rent appeal (FMRA) because it sought to challenge the rent initially charged to the first rent-...
Tenant filed a fair market rent appeal (FMRA) in 2017, challenging the initial $2,400 rent set by landlord in 2012 after the prior rent-controlled tenant vacated the apartment. The DRA dismissed the FMRA as untimely...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA treated the complaint as a fair market rent appeal (FMRA), ruled for tenant, set the apartment's initial legal regulated rent using the default formula, and ordered...
Landlord sued to evict unregulated tenant in January 2019 after tenant's lease expired. Tenant claimed that she was rent stabilized and that the apartment was improperly deregulated when she moved in. The court...
Rent-stabilized tenant filed a fair market rent appeal (FMRA) in 2016, stating that she was the first rent-stabilized tenant of the apartment after vacancy decontrol, and that landlord impermissibly charged a...
(Decision submitted by attorney Elizabeth Lentini, of the Manhattan law firm of Borah, Goldstein, Altschuler, Nahins & Goidel, P.C., who represented the landlord.)
Landlord sued to evict unregulated tenant for nonpayment of rent. In response, tenant claimed that the apartment had been illegally deregulated. The court granted landlord's request to dismiss tenant's...
