Rent-controlled tenant complained to the DHCR in 2022 of rent overcharge. She claimed that there were improper Maximum Base Rent (MBR) calculations in the apartment's rent history since 1960. Landlord claimed...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2023. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $8,144, including triple damages and interest. Because landlord failed to submit a lease and/or...
An apartment occupant filed a lease violation complaint with the DHCR. He claimed that he was the son of the rent-stabilized tenant of record, that tenant moved into the unit in 1979, that he was born there in 1986...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on elevator upgrading. The DHCR ruled for landlord. Tenants appealed and lost. Tenants claimed that landlord filed its application more than two years after completion of the...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, who appealed and lost. Tenant then filed an Article 78 court appeal, claiming that the DHCR's decision was arbitrary and...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR in 2018 of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and directed landlord to refund $15,873, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost. The DRA had properly...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and found a total overcharge of $9,943, including triple damages and interest. The DRA noted that, after a partial refund already granted...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR on June 25, 2019, of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered a refund of $50,869, including triple damages, for overcharges occurring between 2015 and 2023...
A Bronxville tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. She lived in a rent-stabilized apartment in landlord's building, and later moved into a different, unregulated apartment in the same building. Tenant...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $1,170, including triple damages. Tenant appealed and won. Tenant argued that the actual overcharge was...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant, finding that landlord collected $3,500 per month for 18 months when the legal rent was $2,903. The DRA directed landlord to...
In 2017, the DHCR's Rent Administrator opened a rent overcharge proceeding upon referral from the agency's Tenant Protection Unit (TPU). In June 2021, the DRA requested from landlord complete rent history...
