Tenants sued landlord in 2020 for rent overcharge and improper deregulation. In 2014, prior landlord had registered the apartment with the DHCR as exempt due to high-rent vacancy and based on improvements although...
Rent-stabilized tenants complained of rent overcharge in 2017. They questioned a rent increase for individual apartment improvements (IAIs) charged by landlord. The DRA ruled against tenants, who appealed and lost....
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in February 2019. The DRA found no overcharge and dismissed the complaint. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant claimed that the last prior rent before she moved in...
Rent-controlled tenant filed a rent overcharge complaint in 2020. Tenant claimed that landlord charged more than the 2013 Maximum Collectible Rent (MCR) and that landlord turned off the hot water and broke a cabinet...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained in 2018 of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding no overcharge since the base rent date. The DRA did direct landlord to amend the 2014 apartment registration to...
Tenant sued landlord in 2011 for improper apartment deregulation and rent overcharge. Landlord had deregulated the apartment even though the building was subject to J-51 tax benefits. Tenant's monthly rent was $9...
Rent-stabilized tenant complaint of rent overcharge in 2016. Tenant had lived in the apartment since 1991 and claimed that, at some point, landlord discontinued a preferential rent granted to tenant. Tenant also...
The DHCR's Tenant Protection Unit (TPU) filed a rent overcharge complaint with the DRA on tenant's behalf after conducting a TPU audit investigation of tenant's apartment. The TPU claimed that the unit...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2018. The DRA found no overcharge and dismissed the complaint in 2021. Tenant appealed and won in part. The DRA erred in setting a four-year base date as March...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2016. The DRA ruled for tenant in part in 2018, and ordered landlord to refund $1,695 in excess security deposit. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant claimed that her apartment...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge and improper deregulation in 2016. In 2014, tenant had moved into a building that received J-51 tax benefits between 2005 and 2017, at an initial rent of $3,750. The DRA ruled...
Landlord gave new tenants a deregulated lease in 2005 after removing the apartment from rent stabilization in 2003 under the Rent Stabilization Law's vacancy decontrol provisions. At the time, and until 2013, the...
