Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in 2018. The DRA ruled for tenant and directed landlord to refund $150,249, including interest and triple damages. The overcharge finding was based on...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in 2021. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding no overcharge. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant argued that landlord improperly increased the...
Tenant complained to DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant in 2023 based on landlord's supposed failure to answer tenant's complaint. Landlord appealed, claiming it answered tenant's complaint...
The DHCR's Tenant Protection Unit (TPU) reviewed 2014 and 2015 rent registrations for an apartment and conducted a rent audit, requesting rent history documentation from landlord. Landlord didn't comply after...
Tenant complained to the DHCR in February 2019 of rent overcharge and improper deregulation of her apartment. She challenged her preferential rent, denied there was a higher legal regulated rent, and objected to...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in 2021. Tenant had moved into the unit in 2009 at a monthly rent of $1,600. She claimed that her rent had been illegally increased through the years...
Tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in 2020. Tenant claimed that, when she moved into the unit in 2017, landlord had made improper individual apartment improvements (IAIs), without permits and using...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in July 2019. She claimed that landlord had increased her rent without a renewal lease. Landlord claimed that tenant had refused to sign a renewal...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge between May 1, 2019, and April 2023 when he moved out. The DRA ruled for tenant, finding that the bulk of the overcharge was caused by landlord...
Tenant complained in 2022 that landlord failed to offer her a rent-stabilized renewal lease. Tenant signed an initial lease in 2016 at a rent of $2,800 per month. Landlord claimed that the building was exempt from...
Five tenants applied to the DHCR for a ruling on the regulatory status of their apartments. They claimed that they were improperly deregulated, that the building was a Class B multiple dwelling, and therefore subject...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2023. The DRA ruled against tenant, who appealed and lost. The DHCR had issued a prior order in 2023 finding that tenant's building was exempt from rent stabilization based...
