Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for failure to renew his lease. In answer to the holdover petition, tenant claimed that landlord induced him to sign a lease rider several months after he signed his...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent, with rent arrears going back to 2016. The court dismissed the portion of the case seeking rent prior to November 2018, since that portion had been paid. But the...
Rent-stabilized tenants in a 421-a building sued landlord claiming that landlord registered illusory initial rents for apartments in the building by utilizing rent concessions. Typically, a lease gave new tenant a...
Landlord sued former tenant for rent owed after tenant broke her lease and moved out. Landlord had rented the apartment to tenant in December 2019 at a monthly rent of $12,500. The lease gave tenant a rent concession...
After an appeals court ruled in 2015 that an SRO hotel occupant qualified as a permanent tenant under rent stabilization, landlord applied to the DHCR for a ruling to determine the unit's legal regulated rent. In...
Tenants of a privately owned affordable housing project challenged in federal court the regulatory approval of rent increases 10 years earlier by HUD and HPD. The District Court (EDNY) dismissed the case in March...
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 2015, paid a daily...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant based on tenant's loss of her Section 8 housing voucher due to her failure to recertify. Landlord claimed that tenant's failure to recertify for the Section 8...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant and occupant "John Doe" based on tenant's nonpayment of rent. Tenant's son appeared in court, admitting that he was John Doe, that tenant died in...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent in July 2018. Landlord and tenant signed a settlement agreement that was approved by the court on March 11, 2020. Landlord later asked the court to grant it a...
Landlord sued tenant, seeking to recover rent arrears and fines imposed by DOB relating to tenant's unauthorized rental of his apartment for transient use through Airbnb. The court ruled for landlord without...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonpayment of rent. Tenant objected, claiming that landlord was now charging her more than a preferential rent as it did under her initial lease in 2000. Landlord...
