Tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding no overcharge. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant received a rent-stabilized vacancy lease when she moved into the unit in October 1995. But...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding no overcharge after applying lawful rent increases to the four-year base date rent. While tenant initially paid a preferential rent, his...
Rent-stabilized tenant in a 421-a building complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $13,745, including interest. Landlord appealed and won in part. The DHCR agreed with...
(Decision submitted by attorney David Hershey-Webb of the Manhattan law firm of Himmelstein, McConnell, Gribben, Donoghue & Joseph LLP, who represented the tenants.)
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant in 2018 and ordered landlord to refund $318, including interest. The DRA found no colorable claim of any fraudulent scheme to deregulate...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $1,590, including interest. The DRA found that the apartment had been lawfully deregulated in 1997 due to high-rent...
Tenant complained in 2015 of rent overcharge and improper apartment deregulation. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $11,494, including interest. The DRA disallowed landlord's claimed $45,000...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2017. The DRA applied a four-year base date and ruled against tenant in March 2019, finding no overcharge. Tenant appealed and lost. While at first the DHCR was...
Tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that the apartment was no longer subject to rent stabilization. Tenant appealed and, while tenant's PAR was pending, the...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. Tenant claimed that a prior rent reduction order had frozen his rent. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $7,918, including interest. Landlord...
Landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of three rent-stabilized apartments in its building in May 2019. The DRA dismissed the applications in August 2019, noting that the Housing Stability and Tenant...
Rent-stabilized tenant's grandson claimed succession rights and complained that landlord refused to give him a renewal lease after tenant died. The DRA ruled for tenant's grandson. Landlord appealed and lost...
