Tenant complained of rent overcharge and improper apartment deregulation. The DRA ruled for tenant, finding that tenant was rent stabilized and that the lawful monthly rent as of September 2017 was $1,212.
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonpayment of rent. Landlord claimed that New York's highest court had ruled in 2011, in the case of Casado v. Markus, that the Rent Guidelines Board (...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for chronic nonpayment of rent. Landlord claimed that it had to start three nonpayment proceedings against tenant and that this indicated tenant's violation of a...
Landlord sued to evict tenants husband and wife for nonpayment of rent. The husband defaulted by not appearing in court. The wife's mother appeared and told the court that the wife had moved out because the...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent. The Jewish Association Serving the Aging (JASA), which was tenant's guardian under Mental Hygiene Law Article 81, signed a settlement agreement with landlord...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonpayment of rent. Landlord claimed that the monthly rent was $1,915 under tenant's lease. But a different lease between landlord, tenant, and another co-tenant...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonpayment of rent. Landlord claimed that it was entitled to raise tenant's rent as much as it did as long as the rent increase didn't violate a ceiling of...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonpayment of rent. The court dismissed the case after trial. Landlord and tenant signed one lease listing a higher rent, then signed a second lease with a lower rent...
Landlord sued tenant's guarantor, seeking payment of rent owed by tenant both before and after tenant moved out. The guarantor didn't respond to landlord's claim. The court ruled for landlord, finding...
Landlord asked the DHCR to determine the legal rent for tenant's SRO unit after a court ruled that tenant was a rent-stabilized permanent tenant. Tenant had checked into the SRO building in August 2015, paid a...
Landlord sued to evict tenant, who previously had received a Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher, and claimed that tenant breached his lease by failing to return his annual recertification package HPD. This resulted in...
Landlord sued to evict tenant, claiming that tenant owed back rent and related charges. The court ruled for tenant, who appealed and won in part. Since tenant's lease didn't deem late fees, utility charges,...
