TPU conducted an audit of individual apartment improvements (IAIs) made to a rent-stabilized apartment and found an overcharge. The TPU directed landlord to reset the registered $2,850 rent at $1,715, refund the...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $682, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost. Although landlord had proved...
Tenant complained to the DHCR in 2018 of rent overcharge and improper deregulation of his apartment. The DRA ruled for tenant, found that he was rent stabilized, and found a total overcharge following the four-year...
The DHCR's Tenant Protection Unit (TPU) conducted an investigation of an apartment to determine its legal regulated rent (LRR). When landlord failed to respond to a 2016 TPU subpoena for rent records, TPU...
The DHCR's Tenant Protection Unit (TPU) brought an audit proceeding for individual apartment improvements (IAIs) made to an apartment in landlord's building based on review of rent registrations for the unit...
Rent-stabilized tenant sued landlord in State Supreme Court, claiming rent overcharge. Tenant proposed that the case be a class action for all building tenants, claiming that landlord collected improper rents while...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR in 2020 that he was being overcharged. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that the apartment was vacancy-deregulated in March 2017 when tenant moved in. Tenant...
Building tenants sued landlord for rent overcharges and engaging in a fraudulent scheme to deregulate various apartments. Among other things, tenants asked the court to rule on several key elements of their claims...
Tenants filed a class action lawsuit against landlord in 2018 for rent overcharges. The court rejected landlord's request to limit pretrial questioning and document production to a four-year period and instead...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonpayment of rent. Tenant asked the court for permission to conduct discovery. She claimed rent overcharge and said there were questions about fraud because landlord...
Tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in January 2019 and claimed that landlord engaged in a fraudulent scheme to deregulate his apartment by misrepresenting to HPD that the building was a condominium in...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in April 2019. He claimed that he was the successor tenant to his mother's apartment. After she died, landlord gave him a vacancy lease at a 20 percent rent...
