Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $16,828, including interest. Landlord and tenant both appealed. Landlord argued that any overcharge was...
Tenants sued landlord, claiming improper apartment deregulation and rent overcharge based on a fraudulent scheme to deregulate. They asked the court to set legal rents based on a default formula found in the Rent...
Landlord sued tenant for nonpayment of rent. In response, tenant claimed rent overcharge, asked the court to utilize the default formula in determining the apartment rent, and sought pre-trial document production. In...
Tenant filed an application in December 2014, asking the DHCR to determine in an administrative proceeding the legal regulated rent of his rent-stabilized apartment. The DRA reviewed requested records from tenant and...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge and improper deregulation of his apartment, located in a building receiving J-51 tax benefits. Landlord responded that, once the outcome of the Roberts decision in 2010...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent. Tenant asked the court to dismiss the case without trial and argued that the apartment was rent stabilized and had been improperly registered with the DHCR. The...
Rent-stabilized tenant sued landlord in 2018, claiming rent overcharge after living in the apartment for 30 years. Current landlord bought the building in 2005. Tenant claimed that a prior tenant who lived in the...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding no overcharge after applying lawful rent increases to the four-year base date rent. While tenant initially paid a preferential rent, his...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2017. The DRA applied a four-year base date and ruled against tenant in March 2019, finding no overcharge. Tenant appealed and lost. While at first the DHCR was...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding no overcharge. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant questioned the rent increase for individual apartment improvements (IAIs)...
(Decision submitted by Elizabeth A. Lentini of the Manhattan law firm of Borah, Goldstein, Altschuler, Nahins & Goidel, P.C., attorneys for the landlord.)
Rent-controlled tenant complained of rent overcharge, claiming improper calculation of the latest Maximum Base Rent (MBR) for his apartment. The DRA issued an order calculating the Maximum Collectible Rent (MCR) for...
