In separate complaints filed with the DHCR, tenants complained of a reduction in building-wide services at their building. The DRA ruled for tenants, finding that janitorial service had been reduced. The DRA later...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of a reduction in services, claiming landlord had improperly replaced her refrigerator with a smaller model. The DRA ruled against tenant after the DHCR's inspector...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA found no overcharge and dismissed the complaint. Tenant appealed and won, in part. Tenant moved into the apartment in 2011 and filed his...
Tenants complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in early 2019. They claimed that landlord illegally rented rent-stabilized apartments in the building without a proper Certificate of Occupancy (C of O). They said...
Tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in 2022. Tenant moved into the apartment in 2020 and his initial vacancy lease included an HPD Permanently Affordable Inclusionary Housing Program Rider stating that...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2016. The DRA ruled for tenant and froze the rent at a pre-base date amount due to landlord's failure to file annual rent registrations from 2007 onward....
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in March 2019. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding no overcharge. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant claimed for the first time in her PAR that the...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in late 2018. Specifically, tenant claimed that landlord charged improper MCI rent increases between Sept. 1 - Dec. 31, 2018. Landlord had bought the...
Tenant complained to the DHCR in 2020 of rent overcharge and improper deregulation of her apartment. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that the apartment had been lawfully vacancy-deregulated in 2014 when the...
The DHCR's Tenant Protection Unit (TPU) brought an audit proceeding for individual apartment improvements (IAIs) made to an apartment in landlord's building based on review of rent registrations for the unit...
Tenant complained to the DHCR that landlord failed to give her a proper renewal lease in the form required under the Rent Stabilization Code and rent guidelines. The DRA ruled for tenant and directed landlord to...
Apartment occupant claimed succession rights to a rent-stabilized apartment after tenant died in August 2019. The tenant was occupant's mother. The DRA ruled for occupant. Landlord filed a request for...
