Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $32,825, including triple damages and interest. Landlord appealed and lost. The DRA had excluded a $50...
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...
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...
Tenant and members of a class that he represented, all tenants in a building that received J-51 tax benefits, sued landlord. Tenants, who were certified as a class by the court, said they never received rent-...
The DHCR's Tenant Protection Unit (TPU) referred a rent overcharge claim to the DRA, after making a finding of rent overcharge that the landlord rejected. The TPU found that individual apartment improvements (...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained in 2016 of rent overcharge, claiming that landlord incorrectly claimed that tenant paid a preferential rent. Tenant also claimed that the apartment rent was increased fraudulently to...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant in 2017 and ordered landlord to refund $16,043, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost. Landlord claimed that tenant...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2013. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund an overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant because landlord failed to produce rent history records...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and found a willful rent overcharge. The DHCR denied landlord's PAR. Landlord then filed an Article 78 court proceeding, claiming...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2016. Tenant claimed that he had bought and installed an air conditioner in his apartment some time ago and that current landlord only recently started charging...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant in 2018 and found a total overcharge of $3,450, including triple damages. Since tenant owed $15,000 in rent arrears, no refund to tenant...
Landlord sued to evict unregulated tenant for nonpayment of rent. Tenant claimed rent overcharge and improper deregulation of his apartment. The court dismissed landlord's case and ruled for tenant, finding that...
