Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $9,309, including triple damages and interest. Landlord appealed and lost. Although the legal rent for the...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $14,700, including triple damages. Landlord appealed, and the case was reopened. Landlord argued that it wasn't...
Unregulated tenants complained of improper deregulation and rent overcharge. New landlord agreed that tenants were rent stabilized and gave them a rent-stabilized lease and a rent refund. The DRA ruled for tenants...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in connection with his parking garage space. The DRA ruled for tenant, finding that landlord charged more than a rent guidelines increase to tenant for the parking...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and directed a refund, including interest. Landlord appealed and lost. The DRA properly found that the initial $1,659 rent charged per...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $26,955, including triple damages and interest and reflecting a prior refund of $18,177. The overcharge...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant. No refund was required because tenant owed rent arrears, but landlord was directed to credit tenant's account by $3,878. This was...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $29,190, including triple damages and reflecting a deduction based on landlord's prior refund to...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $9,586, including interest and deducting a rent underpayment of $1,491. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant...
Unregulated tenants complained that they were rent stabilized, that their apartment was improperly deregulated in 2011 due to landlord fraud, and that they had been overcharged. The DRA ruled against tenants, who...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained that landlord failed to offer him a renewal lease in 2017 on the same terms and conditions that were contained in his expiring lease. Tenant claimed that landlord discontinued the...
Tenant complained to the DHCR of lease violation and rent overcharge in separate complaints consolidated by the DRA. Landlord had never given tenant a lease. Landlord claimed that the apartment was unregulated. The...
