Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on a courtyard/walkway installation, architect's fee, related inspections, courtyard doors, and a TV/security system. The DRA ruled for landlord.
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on building-wide rewiring, plumbing re-piping, and gas re-piping. The DRA ruled for landlord and tenants appealed, making a number of claims.
Landlord applied to the DHCR for MCI rent hikes based on elevator upgrading. The DRA ruled against landlord, finding that landlord had failed to submit proof of all payments as well as proof of having resolved all...
Landlord sued to evict unregulated tenants for nonpayment of rent. Tenants claimed that they were rent stabilized and asked the court to dismiss the case. They also claimed rent overcharge, and sought attorney's...
Tenant complained in July 2019 of rent overcharge and improper deregulation of his apartment. The DRA ruled against tenant, who appealed and lost. Although tenant paid $2,100 per month when he moved into the unit in...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge and improper apartment deregulation. Landlord showed that the apartment had been owner-occupied between 1999 and 2004, then rented at a first rent to a prior tenant, then...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge and improper deregulation in 2016. In 2014, tenant had moved into a building that received J-51 tax benefits between 2005 and 2017, at an initial rent of $3,750. The DRA ruled...
Landlord gave new tenants a deregulated lease in 2005 after removing the apartment from rent stabilization in 2003 under the Rent Stabilization Law's vacancy decontrol provisions. At the time, and until 2013, the...
Tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. Landlord claimed that the apartment wasn't rent stabilized because the building's mortgage Subordination Agreement and Regulatory Agreement with the City of...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained in 2018 of rent overcharge and an improper renewal lease offer. The DRA found no overcharge but noted that the legal regulated base date rent for tenant's Feb. 1, 2016, renewal...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2017. Tenant moved into the apartment in 1991 at a monthly rent of $400. By the time of his complaint, tenant paid $805 per month. Tenant claimed that the...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2018. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $7,413, including interest and triple damages. Landlord appealed and challenged the triple damage...
