The DHCR's Tenant Protection Unit (TPU) brought an individual apartment improvement (IAI) audit against landlord for tenant’s apartment. Based on rent registration data, TPU asked landlord to submit proof...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $2,500, including triple damages and interest. Although landlord had refunded a portion of that amount...
Subtenant complained that rent-stabilized tenant overcharged her. The DRA ruled for subtenant, found that tenant was profiteering, and ordered tenant to refund $20,906 to subtenant, including triple damages. Tenant...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $80,000, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost. Landlord failed to provide a base date lease or ledger, and...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge and claimed that landlord didn’t comply with a rent reduction order that had reduced her rent. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $4,000...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge. He moved into the apartment in February 2013 at a vacancy rent of $1,800. Landlord claimed that the apartment was deregulated, that the legal rent was $3,425, and that tenant...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $68,000, including triple damages. The DRA set the base date rent by using the DHCR’s default...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $7,068, including triple damages. The DRA also froze the collectible rent due to landlord's failure to file timely...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $3060, including triple damages and minus a refund of $1,380 that landlord had given tenant while the case...
SRO tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and found a total overcharge of $245. Tenant appealed and won. Tenant claimed that the base date rent was unreliable and that landlord had engaged in...
The DHCR’s Tenant Protection Unit (TPU) conducted an Individual Apartment Improvement (IAI) audit for tenant’s apartment based on review of annual rent registrations, and asked landlord to submit proof...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRO ruled for tenant, finding that prior rent reduction orders had frozen the rent and landlord could collect no rent increases until the DHCR issued an order...
