Tenants in a J-51 building sued landlord in a class action, claiming rent overcharges and improper deregulation. The court ruled for tenants without trial and found that the legal regulated rents for their apartments...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonpayment of rent. Tenant asked the court for permission to conduct discovery. She claimed rent overcharge and said there were questions about fraud because landlord...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant but found no refund was owed. The overcharge wasn't willful, and landlord had refunded more than the overcharge amount plus interest...
Nassau County tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $5,718, which included triple damages plus interest along with subtraction of a $3,543 refund...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR in 2018 of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and directed landlord to refund $8,280, including interest. Landlord appealed and won in part. Landlord claimed that...
Tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in January 2019 and claimed that landlord engaged in a fraudulent scheme to deregulate his apartment by misrepresenting to HPD that the building was a condominium in...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in April 2019. He claimed that he was the successor tenant to his mother's apartment. After she died, landlord gave him a vacancy lease at a 20 percent rent...
Seventy-four tenants sued a number of landlords of different buildings for rent overcharge in one lawsuit and sought class action status. The court denied a motion by landlord to dismiss that claim, finding it...
Tenant sued landlord in 2022, claiming that unjustified rent increases for her formerly rent-stabilized apartment since at least 1992 resulted in improper vacancy deregulation of the unit by landlord in 2003,...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and the DHCR denied landlord's PAR. Landlord then filed an Article 78 court appeal, claiming that the DHCR's decision...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and the DHCR denied landlord's PAR. Landlord then filed an Article 78 court appeal, claiming that the DHCR's decision...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DHCR ruled for tenant. Landlord then filed an Article 78 court appeal, claiming that the DHCR's decision was arbitrary and unreasonable. The court...
