Tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and reduced tenant’s base date rent to $875 due to a 1991 rent reduction order. Since a rent restoration order was issued effective September 2013...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding no overcharge. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant argued that the DRA incorrectly included $2,000 in approved individual...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA found no overcharge and dismissed the complaint. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant argued that the apartment’s rent was illegally doubled during a...
(Decision submitted by Eileen O’Toole, Esq. of the Manhattan law firm of Borah, Goldstein, Altschuler, Nahins & Goidel, P.C., attorneys for the landlord.)
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding no overcharge since the July 17, 2010, base rent date four years prior to the filing of the complaint. Tenant appealed...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. In response, landlord showed that tenant had signed a settlement agreement in a housing court nonpayment case stating that tenant agreed to “settle any and...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. She claimed that landlord improperly increased her rent upon renewal of her lease. The DRA ruled against tenant, who appealed and lost. Tenant signed a...
Rent-controlled tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2015. She claimed that she moved into the apartment in 1956 and that landlord was currently collecting rent at $225 per month. Landlord responded that it bought...
Landlord sued to evict unregulated, month-to-month tenant. Tenant claimed that she was rent stabilized and that she had been overcharged. Landlord argued that the apartment had been vacancy deregulated before tenant...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA found no overcharge since the base rent date and dismissed the complaint. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant requested a hearing and claimed that landlord engaged in a...
