Landlord sued to evict tenant, claiming that his tenancy was unregulated. Tenant claimed that he was rent stabilized. The court ruled for tenant, based on stipulated facts agreed to by both sides.
Building tenants sued landlord in 2019, seeking declarations that they were rent stabilized and asked for decisions on individual claims for nonfraud overcharges predating the HSTPA. Landlord had previously received...
Landlord sued to eject tenant and asked the court for a declaration without trial that tenant's apartment was deregulated in 2010. The court ruled against landlord, finding that it failed to establish that the...
Tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge and improper deregulation of his apartment. The DRA ruled against tenant, who appealed and lost. The DHCR found no colorable claim of a fraudulent scheme to deregulate...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR that landlord failed to offer him a renewal lease on the same terms and conditions as his expiring lease. Tenant claimed that landlord took away a utility credit that was...
Landlord applied to the DHCR for a ruling that its building was exempt from rent stabilization based on substantial rehabilitation. The DRA ruled against landlord, finding that it failed to present any substantive...
(Decision submitted by Michael Littman, Esq. of the Rockville Centre law firm of Sidrane Schwartz-Sidrane Perinbasekar & Littman LLP, attorneys for the landlord.)
Landlord filed two separate applications with the DHCR, in 2017 and 2018, seeking high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant's rent-stabilized apartment. These applications were still pending before the DHCR on...
Landlord sued to evict tenant it claimed was unregulated. Tenant claimed that she was rent stabilized, that her apartment had been improperly deregulated, and that she had been overcharged.
A Bronxville tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. She lived in a rent-stabilized apartment in landlord's building, and later moved into a different, unregulated apartment in the same building. Tenant...
Tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that the apartment was subject to rent stabilization. Tenant appealed and lost. In a prior DHCR ruling, the agency found that a...
Tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge and improper deregulation of his apartment. The DRA ruled for tenant in part, finding that the apartment was subject to rent stabilization but that there was no...
