Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in 2022. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $15,881, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost. Landlord claimed...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant, finding that the total overcharge with triple damages was $140,625. But since landlord had already refunded $143,891, no refund was...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2018, claiming that landlord's rent increases and claimed preferential rent were improper. The DRA ruled for tenant, finding that although the tenant's...
After an IAI audit of tenant's apartment, the DHCR's Tenant Protection Unit (TPU) referred the matter to the DRA for processing of a rent overcharge complaint. The DRA disallowed a small portion of landlord...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in 2022. The DRA ruled for tenant and found that landlord owed tenant overcharges totalling $1,561 with interest. The DRA also found that landlord owed...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge, based on landlord's collection of the full legal regulated rent from tenant while a prior DHCR rent reduction order remained in effect. The DRA...
Tenant complained to the DHCR in 2020, claiming rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that her apartment was no longer rent stabilized. Tenant appealed and lost. The base rent date for tenant's...
Landlord applied to the DHCR, seeking a determination that its Yonkers building was exempt from rent regulation based on substantial rehabilitation. The DRA ruled for landlord, who bought the building in 1989 when it...
Landlord applied to the DHCR for a ruling that its building was exempt from rent regulation due to a substantial rehabilitation completed during the 1980s. The DRA ruled against landlord, finding that it failed to...
Tenant in a 421-a building complained that landlord failed to offer him a rent-stabilized renewal lease. Tenant had lived in the apartment since 1976. The DRA ruled for tenant and directed landlord to offer a renewal...
An apartment occupant filed a lease violation complaint with the DHCR, claiming that the tenant of record was an illusory tenant and that landlord should be directed to offer her a rent-stabilized lease instead. The...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained in 2023 that landlord failed to offer him a renewal lease. Landlord claimed that it had offered tenant timely renewal leases in September 2023 and March 2024. The DRA ruled for...
