Tenant complained of rent overcharge and improper deregulation of a rent-stabilized apartment while the building received J-51 tax benefits. Landlord argued there was no overcharge because tenant paid a preferential...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant in 2016. Landlord appealed and lost in 2017. Landlord then filed an Article 78 court appeal, claiming that the DHCR's decision was...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent. The court granted tenant's request to dismiss the case. Landlord appealed and lost. In 2012, the DHCR had ruled there was a rent overcharge and directed prior...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for chronic nonpayment of rent, claiming that the apartment was unregulated. The court ruled for landlord based on tenant's failure to appear in court. The court later denied tenant...
Landlord sued to evict apartment occupant after rent-stabilized tenant died. The occupant claimed that he had a family-member relationship with tenant. The trial court ruled for the occupant, finding he had...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant's daughter after tenant died. The daughter asked the court to dismiss the case without trial. The court ruled against the daughter, who appealed and lost. Documentary...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant's daughter after tenant died. The trial court ruled for the daughter. Landlord appealed and lost. Despite some procedural errors by the lower court, the daughter'...
Landlord sued to evict tenant, claiming that tenant was unregulated. Tenant argued that he was rent stabilized and asked the court to dismiss the case. The court ruled against tenant, who appealed and won. Tenant had...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for profiteering from short-term rentals of her apartment. The court ruled against landlord, finding that the nature and frequency of tenant's rentals didn't...
Tenant sued landlord after being shot at her apartment building. The court granted landlord's request to dismiss the case. Tenant appealed and lost. Landlord had a duty to take minimal security precautions to...
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...
Tenants sued landlords and asked the court to designate the case as a class action. Tenants claimed rent overcharge and a fraudulent scheme to inflate rents in over 20 buildings landlords owned and operated. The...
