Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in 2022. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $15,881, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost. Landlord claimed...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant, finding that the total overcharge with triple damages was $140,625. But since landlord had already refunded $143,891, no refund was...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2018, claiming that landlord's rent increases and claimed preferential rent were improper. The DRA ruled for tenant, finding that although the tenant's...
After an IAI audit of tenant's apartment, the DHCR's Tenant Protection Unit (TPU) referred the matter to the DRA for processing of a rent overcharge complaint. The DRA disallowed a small portion of landlord...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in 2022. The DRA ruled for tenant and found that landlord owed tenant overcharges totalling $1,561 with interest. The DRA also found that landlord owed...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge, based on landlord's collection of the full legal regulated rent from tenant while a prior DHCR rent reduction order remained in effect. The DRA...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR in August 2019 of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding no overcharge. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant argued that the DRA applied an incorrect base...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $90,000, including triple damages and interest. Landlord appealed and lost. Landlord had...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in 2018. Tenant said the apartment rent was increased before he moved in based on landlord's false claims concerning individual apartment...
Rent-stabilized tenant sublet her apartment for a term from Aug. 21, 2018, to Aug. 31, 2020. After the sublease ended, tenant sued the subtenant's lease guarantor for unpaid rent and based on the subtenant's...
Tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in 2017. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $13,025, including triple damages and interest. Among other things, the DRA ruled that landlord and...
Rent-controlled tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge after receiving a notice of Maximum Collectible Rent (MCR) effective Jan. 1, 2023, indicating that the MCR was $1,529.61. Tenant claimed that she had...
