On Oct. 23, 2023, the DHCR certified adoption of amendments to the Rent Stabilization Code (RSC) it had proposed in August 2022. These RSC Amendments are expected to be published in the NY State Register on Nov. 8,...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant but found no refund was owed. The overcharge wasn't willful, and landlord had refunded more than the overcharge amount plus interest...
Nassau County tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $5,718, which included triple damages plus interest along with subtraction of a $3,543 refund...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR in 2018 of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and directed landlord to refund $8,280, including interest. Landlord appealed and won in part. Landlord claimed that...
Tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in January 2019 and claimed that landlord engaged in a fraudulent scheme to deregulate his apartment by misrepresenting to HPD that the building was a condominium in...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant but found that tenant's rent arrears totalling $3,162 were greater than the $713 overcharge. So no overcharge refund was...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in April 2019. He claimed that he was the successor tenant to his mother's apartment. After she died, landlord gave him a vacancy lease at a 20 percent rent...
In December 2021, tenant filed a lease violation complaint with the DHCR, claiming that landlord failed to give her a fully executed copy of a rent-stabilized renewal lease she signed for the renewal term commencing...
Section 8 tenant filed a lease violation complaint with the DHCR, claiming that landlord refused to correct her last rent-stabilized renewal lease. The DRA terminated the proceeding and advised tenant to go back to...
Tenant complained to the DHCR that landlord refused to give him a rent-stabilized lease. When tenant moved into the apartment in 2021, prior landlord gave him a seven-month short-term occupancy agreement at monthly...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR that landlord failed to provide a timely renewal lease. The DRA ruled for tenant after landlord failed to respond to the DRA's notice of tenant's complaint....
Landlord applied to the DHCR for a determination that its building was exempt from rent stabilization due to substantial rehabilitation done after Jan. 1, 1974. The DRA ruled against landlord, finding that landlord...
