The DHCR's Tenant Protection Unit (TPU) commenced an individual apartment improvements (IAI) audit and asked for proof justifying IAI rent increases collected by landlord. Landlord submitted some records, and...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge. Landlord argued that the apartment was vacancy deregulated as of the base rent date four years before tenant filed her complaint. The DRA ruled for tenant, found that tenant was...
The DHCR's Tenant Protection Unit (TPU) conducted an audit and issued an Audit Determination Notice telling landlord to reduce tenant's rent as of April 1, 2013, to $575 per month and to refund a rent...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge, fraud, and improper apartment deregulation before the base rent date. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $132,175, including interest and...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. Tenant moved into the apartment in 1984 and said that, between 1992 and 2009, landlord treated the apartment as deregulated although the building was receiving J-...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered a refund with triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost. The DRA properly granted a rent increase for individual apartment...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant, and imposed triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost. The DRA found that a rent reduction order issued on June 14, 2012, with an...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $50,000, including triple damages. Landlord and tenant both appealed and lost. Landlord claimed that the...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $45,000, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost. Landlord claimed that the building was...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $17,733, including triple damages plus interest. Landlord and tenant both appealed and lost. Tenant argued that the DRA...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonpayment of rent. Tenant claimed rent overcharge based on two 1987 DHCR rent reduction orders that were still in effect. Landlord argued that it had bought the...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge, and claimed that his apartment was improperly deregulated. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $45,000, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost....
