Landlord applied separately for high-rent/high-income deregulation of 10 apartments in one building in May 2019. The DRA dismissed those applications in August 2019 based on provisions of HSTPA that repealed...
Tenants signed a two-year unregulated lease in August 2005 at an initial rent of $5,195 per month. Landlord had removed the apartment from rent stabilization in 2003 under high-rent vacancy deregulation provisions of...
Tenant complained to the DHCR that landlord refused to offer him a rent-stabilized lease. Tenant had moved into the apartment in 1992 and never had a lease. His occupancy was conditioned on his employment with the...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR in 2017 of rent overcharge. He had moved into the apartment in 1987. While his vacancy lease rent was $383 per month, he had no written lease at this point and had paid $...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge and improper deregulation of his apartment. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that the apartment was high-rent vacancy-deregulated in 2000. Tenant appealed, based on a number...
Tenants complained separately in 2016 of rent overcharge and improper deregulation of their shared apartment. Each tenant had rented a single room in the same apartment without a lease. The DRA combined the cases,...
Tenants complained to the DHCR in 2016, claiming rent overcharge and improper deregulation of their apartment. The DRA ruled for tenants and ordered landlord to refund $59,238, including interest.
Tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in 2016, claiming that she was never advised by landlord that she was rent stabilized, and had recently received a renewal lease offer seeking to revoke what landlord...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant in 2018 and ordered landlord to refund $38,622, including interest. Tenant appealed, and the DHCR sent the case back to the DRA after...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2017. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $4,950, including triple damages for willful overcharge.
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2017. The DRA ruled for tenant, and ordered landlord to refund an overcharge with interest but no triple damages since landlord showed there was no willful rent...
Tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge and improper deregulation of her apartment. The DRA ruled for tenant, found that tenant was rent stabilized, and found an overcharge of $1,169, including triple...
