Tenant sued landlord, claiming improper apartment deregulation and rent overcharge. Tenant moved into the apartment in 1999 at a monthly rent of $1,400. In 2017, landlord advised tenant that her lease wouldn't be...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent. Tenant claimed that landlord had fraudulently set tenant's vacancy rent in 2008, based on a prior fictitious legal rent. The court ruled for tenant, found...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $7,575, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost. Although landlord claimed that it had given...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $23,000, including interest and triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost. Landlord argued that it had...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant, froze tenant's rent at the base date rent of $1,800 per month due to landlord's failure to file rent registrations, and ordered...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $8,240, including triple damages, although triple damages weren't applied to the portion of the...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant based on a pre-base date rent reduction order, which froze the collectible rent on the base date until landlord filed for and obtained a...
Tenant sued landlord for rent overcharge, claiming that landlord collected full rent while a 1993 DHCR rent reduction order was in effect. Landlord pointed out that the DHCR issued a rent restoration order in 2015...
Tenant sued landlord, claiming rent overcharge and that his hotel-stabilized apartment had been improperly deregulated. Tenant moved into the apartment in 2012 and paid $3,600 per month under an unregulated lease....
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DHCR ruled for tenant and awarded triple damages. Landlord then filed an Article 78 court appeal. The court ruled against landlord, who appealed and lost. The...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund over $68,000, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost. The overcharge finding was based on a...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge because landlord collected a full MCI rent increase while also receiving a J-51 tax abatement for the work performed. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord...
