Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge based on a prior rent reduction order. The DRA ruled for tenant. The 1993 rent reduction order froze tenant’s rent at $181, and the DRA ordered landlord to...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge based on an air conditioner surcharge collected by landlord. The DRA ruled for tenant. Landlord appealed and lost. While DHCR Operational Bulletin 84-4 allows landlords to collect...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $808, including interest. Landlord appealed and lost. Landlord claimed that tenant paid a preferential rent and that the...
Rent-stabilized tenant sued landlord for rent overcharge, claiming that landlord improperly imposed a $175 monthly rent increase for individual apartment improvements (IAIs) that it claimed were made before tenant...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant, used the default method based on an incomplete rent history, and ordered landlord to refund $30,450, including triple damages. Landlord...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant, finding that the base date rent was $1,800 per month, that there was no reason to review rental events pre-dating the base date, and that the total rent...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $1,225, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost. Tenant showed that he paid $900 per month...
Tenants brought a class action against landlord, seeing a declaration as to their rent-stabilized status and payment of damages for rent overcharges. Tenants claimed that landlord had improperly deregulated...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $59,581 with triple damages. Landlord appealed, and the DHCR revoked the triple damages. On its own and in...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $21,131, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost. The DRA properly found that landlord failed to submit a...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant based on a pre-base date rent reduction order, which imposed a continuing obligation on landlord not to increase the apartment’s rent until...
