Landlord asked the DHCR in 2017 to determine if it could give the former rent-stabilized tenant's successor tenant a renewal lease based on the prior tenant's legal regulated rent. After the prior tenant...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for failure to renew his lease. In answer to the holdover petition, tenant claimed that landlord induced him to sign a lease rider several months after he signed his...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2018. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding no overcharge. Tenant appealed and lost. Records showed that the base date legal regulated rent was $1,449 and the...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonpayment of rent. Tenant objected, claiming that landlord was now charging her more than a preferential rent as it did under her initial lease in 2000. Landlord...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge and improper deregulation of a rent-stabilized apartment while the building received J-51 tax benefits. Landlord argued there was no overcharge because tenant paid a preferential...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $7,521, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost. Landlord failed to prove that tenant had a...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $10,829, including triple damages. The overcharge finding was based on landlord's failure to prove...
(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 for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $3,454.74, including interest. Landlord appealed and lost. For the first time on appeal, landlord...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DHCR ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $34,826, including interest. Landlord then filed an Article 78 court appeal. The court sent the case back to the DHCR for...
Tenant complained that landlord refused to renew her rent-stabilized lease on the same terms and conditions as her expiring lease. Tenant claimed that landlord offered a renewal lease at a monthly rent of $1,998...
