Former tenant sued landlord, seeking recovery of his security deposit. The small claims court ruled for tenant in part, awarding him a judgment of $2,605, representing the security deposit, but awarding landlord $500...
Landlord sued to evict rent-controlled tenants for permitting a nuisance due to "loud and furious arguments featuring excessive profanity and abusive language" occurring on 16 specific occasions during five...
Landlord sued to evict unregulated tenant. Tenant claimed that he was rent stabilized, that the apartment had been improperly deregulated, and that he was overcharged. The court ruled for landlord after trial,...
Occupant lived all his life in the family apartment located in a six-unit building that his parents bought in 1951. He remained there after his parents and siblings moved out around 1980. After his father later died...
Tenant sued landlord in 2011, claiming fraudulent improper deregulation of her apartment and rent overcharge. Landlord claimed that the unit had been properly vacancy deregulated. The trial court ruled for tenant,...
Family members of a resident of a facility for intellectually and developmentally disabled adults sued landlord after two of landlord's employees burned resident with a heated potato masher. They claimed that...
Tenant complained to the DHCR of improper apartment deregulation and rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant after reviewing landlord's documentation of individual apartment improvements (IAIs) and...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge and a lease violation. When she sought to add her son as a co-tenant to her lease, landlord agreed and gave them a vacancy lease. The DRA ruled for tenant, finding...
Tenant's son sued landlord NYCHA for illegal lockout. NYCHA asked the court to dismiss the case, claiming that occupant didn't have legal standing to claim illegal lockout. The son claimed that he had lived...
In 2018, landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant's rent-stabilized apartment. In February 2019, the DRA ruled for landlord based on tenants' admission that their total annual...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2016. The DRA ruled for tenant in 2018, applying a four-year base date to review of the apartment rent history. Tenant appealed, and claimed that HSTPA, which...
Tenant complained to the DHCR in 2015 of improper deregulation of his apartment and rent overcharge. The DHCR ruled against tenant, who appealed and lost. Tenant then filed an Article 78 court appeal of the DHCR'...
