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...
New landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent. Tenant claimed that landlord's rent demand was defective and asked the court to dismiss the case. The court ruled for tenant. Landlord sought $25 per...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent. Tenants asked the court to dismiss the case, claiming that the rent demand failed to give credit for payments made and received by landlord for almost every month...
NYCHA sued landlord condominium unit owner for failing to reimburse $28,000 for overpayment of Section 8 subsidy payments. Landlord had rented his apartment to tenant while NYCHA made monthly Section 8 payments to...
