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...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $24,000, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost. Landlord had placed a credit of $6,100 on...
Tenant sued landlord for rent overcharge. The court ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund over $875,000, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost.
Tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2012. Tenant moved into his apartment in May 2011 under a one-year, unregulated lease at $1,400 per month. No DHCR rent registrations were filed between 1984 and 2009. In 2011...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2012. She moved into the apartment in December 2009 at a rent of $962 per month. Landlord claimed that tenant’s initial rent was calculated based on the city’s...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant, using the DHCR’s default formula, and ordered landlord to refund $23,000, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost. Landlord didn...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $2,400, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost. Tenant paid rent of $974 per month when she...
