Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $19,736, including triple damages and interest. Landlord appealed and lost. Tenant moved into the 421-a...
Tenants complained of rent overcharge in 2017 and claimed that landlord had fraudulently deregulated their apartment in 2004. Although landlord failed to submit proof that the apartment was vacancy-deregulated in...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant in 2018 and ordered landlord to refund $6,150, including triple damages. Landlord appealed, and the DHCR sent the case back to the DRA in...
Rent-stabilized tenant filed a fair market rent appeal (FMRA) in 2016, stating that she was the first rent-stabilized tenant of the apartment after vacancy decontrol, and that landlord impermissibly charged a...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge and improper deregulation of his apartment. The DRA ruled for tenant, finding the apartment to be rent stabilized and directing landlord to refund $35,392, including interest....
Tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2015 and told the DHCR that landlord had illegally deregulated her apartment. Tenant moved into the unit on Nov. 1, 2012, under a one-year, non-regulated lease at $1,870 per...
Landlord applied to the DHCR for a ruling that its building had been substantially rehabilitated and therefore was exempt from rent stabilization. The DRA ruled for landlord but specified that all tenants who lived...
Landlord applied to the DHCR for a ruling that its building was exempt from rent stabilization due to substantial rehabilitation in 2014-2015. The DRA ruled against landlord, who appealed and lost. A DOB job filing...
Landlord asked the DHCR for permission to modify building-wide services. The DRA ruled for landlord and granted its application to replace an existing copper wire intercom system with a telephone-based intercom...
Landlord asked the DHCR for a ruling on a building's rent regulatory status. Landlord claimed that the building was exempt from rent stabilization due to substantial rehabilitation. The DRA ruled against landlord...
Landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of five apartments in its building in May 2019. The DRA dismissed all of these applications in August 2019 because, effective June 14, 2019, HSTPA repealed the...
(Decision submitted by Ronald S. Languedoc, Esq. of the Manhattan law firm of Himmelstein, McConnell, Gribben, Donoghue & Joseph LLP, attorneys for the tenants.)
