An unregulated tenant complained to the DHCR in December 2019 that he was specifically overcharged because he paid three months' rent at $2,600 per month when he moved into his apartment in July 2019. He claimed...
TPU conducted an audit of individual apartment improvements (IAIs) made to a rent-stabilized apartment and found an overcharge. The TPU directed landlord to reset the registered $2,850 rent at $1,715, refund the...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant, finding a total overcharge of $3,361. When triple damages were added, and the amount of a prior refund deducted, the total...
Tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge and improper apartment deregulation. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that the apartment had been deregulated in 2010. This was before tenant moved into the unit...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $682, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost. Although landlord had proved...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR in April 2019 of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, who appealed and lost. Tenant argued that landlord had illegally raised her preferential rent beyond...
Rent-stabilized tenant in a building complained to the DHCR in 2017 of rent overcharge. He had moved into the unit in 1993 and claimed that he had been overcharged for 20 years. He also claimed that landlord had...
Tenant complained to the DHCR in 2018 of rent overcharge and improper deregulation of his apartment. The DRA ruled for tenant, found that he was rent stabilized, and found a total overcharge following the four-year...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in January 2019. The DRA ruled for tenant in part, finding that there was a rent overcharge but insufficient evidence of fraud as tenant claimed. So...
Building tenants sued landlord in 2018 for rent overcharge. In connection with pre-trial discovery, the court granted tenants' request to compel landlord to produce their operating and management agreements, all...
Landlord sued to evict tenant after serving a tenancy termination notice. Landlord claimed that, although the building was rent stabilized, tenant's apartment was exempt from rent stabilization due to high-rent...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in 2019. Tenant had moved into the unit in 2018 under a vacancy lease with a legal regulated rent of $2,059 and a preferential rent of $1,725. Among...
