Rent-stabilized SRO tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $3,400 plus triple damages. Landlord appealed and won in part. The building was constructed before...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $13,727, including triple damages and interest. Tenant appealed, claiming fraud. She said that triple...
Rent-stabilized tenants in three separate cases sued landlords for reimbursement of rent overcharges and asked that the cases be declared class actions. The court and appeals court ruled for tenants in two cases. In...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $56,000, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and won, in part. The overcharge finding resulted...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $38,700, including interest. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant claimed that the DRA used the wrong base...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant. There was an outstanding rent reduction order dated Dec. 21, 1990, that was still in effect on the base rent date of July 13, 2005. So...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and found an overcharge based on landlord's failure to register tenant's apartment for certain years. Tenant's rent was...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund the overcharge with triple damages. Landlord appealed and won, in part. The apartment was temporarily exempt on...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $60,000, including triple damages. Landlord appealed that portion of the order that assessed triple...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $2,900, including triple damages. Landlord appealed, claiming that there was no willful overcharge. The...