Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and directed landlord to refund $53,700, including interest. Landlord appealed and won. Landlord claimed that the DRA incorrectly...
Rent-stabilized tenant sued landlord, claiming that he had been overcharged rent since he moved into the apartment in 1988. Landlord claimed that there was no rent overcharge and argued that there was no reason to...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. Tenant claimed that he had a preferential rent and that landlord committed fraud. The DRA found no overcharge and dismissed the complaint, finding no preferential...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant. Landlord was entitled to collect a first rent of tenant's newly created apartment. Tenant hadn't made rent payments in several years and...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge and improper vacancy deregulation of his apartment while the building received J-51 tax benefits. Landlord admitted that the apartment was rent stabilized and offered tenant a...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding no rent overcharge. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant's base date rent on Aug. 12, 2010, was $2,283.54 per month and, on...
Tenants sued landlord for rent overcharges, claiming that their apartments had been improperly deregulated while the building received J-51 tax benefits. Before tenants sued, landlord had made some adjustment to...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge, and claimed fraud in how landlord set the rent. Tenant moved into the apartment in 2016 under a one-year vacancy lease charging a legal regulated rent of $3,177...
Former rent-stabilized tenant sued building owner and asked the court to correct a 2008 DHCR rent administrator's order. In 2008, the DRA ruled that JPR Zito was the building owner and must refund rent...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant, finding a small overcharge that wasn't willful. Landlord appealed and won. Landlord pointed out that the DRA based the overcharge...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge and improper deregulation of his apartment. Landlord claimed that the apartment was vacancy deregulated in 2006 and that it filed an exit registration with the DHCR at that time....
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant in part, finding that the base date lease for prior tenant didn't preserve a claimed legal regulated rent higher than the rent paid....
