Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR on Feb. 25, 2022, of a reduction in services based on a lack of hot water. The DRA ruled for tenant and reduced his rent. Landlord appealed and won. Landlord showed that...
Landlord asked the DHCR for permission to modify required services by substituting electric stoves for gas stoves. The DRA ruled for landlord. Tenants appealed and lost. The DHCR had ruled in other cases that...
Landlord asked the DHCR for permission to modify laundry room services at its building by eliminating the small laundry rooms on each floor, which each contained one washing machine and one dryer, and replacing them...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $2,662, including triple damages. Tenant's lease listed a legal rent of $2,124.25 per...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge and improper deregulation of her apartment. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to: (a) refund $43,575 including triple damages; (b) offer tenant a rent-stabilized...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of a rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, who appealed and won in part. Tenant argued that the DHCR should look back beyond the four-year base date due to fraud...
Tenant complained in 2016 that her apartment had been improperly deregulated and that she was overcharged. The DRA ruled for tenant, finding that tenant's legal regulated vacancy rent was $2,526 and that the...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $12,355, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost. The DRA correctly applied a...
Three rent-stabilized co-tenants complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenants and ordered landlord to refund $141,157, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost. The base rent date...
A hospital employee complained to the DHCR that she was rent stabilized and that landlord refused to renew her lease. The DRA ruled against the employee, who appealed and lost. The employee moved into the apartment...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and found that, between June 1 and Aug. 31, 2016, tenant's monthly collectible rent was reduced to $1 due to a vacate order following...
Rent-stabilized tenants complained of rent overcharge in 2007. The DRA ruled for tenants and ordered landlord to refund $2,951, including interest. Tenants appealed, arguing that landlord had filed fraudulent rent...
