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...
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...
