January 2025
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Demolition Application Denied Due to Lack of Proof of Segregated Funds
Landlords Filed Untimely 2024 Rent Registrations
DHCR Grants Rent Reduction After Court Orders Reconsideration
Rent-Stabilized Tenant's Son Can't Get Renewal Lease While Tenant Still Living in Apartment
DHCR Mistakenly Omitted Triple Damages on Overcharge Award for Post-HSTPA Complaint
Rent Overcharge Resulted from Failure to Renew Lease and to Register Apartment
Landlord Can't Challenge MCI Room Count in DHCR Overcharge Proceeding
Failure to Comply with 2008 Rent Reduction Order Led to $155,000 Rent Overcharge
Triple Damages and Interest Properly Assessed Before Deducting Overcharge Refund
Tenant in Substantially Rehabilitated Building Can't Claim Rent Overcharge
Tenants Didn't Prove Their Apartments Were SRO Units
Landlord Must Offer Tenant Rent-Stabilized Renewal Lease
Landlord Can't Charge Rent-Stabilized Tenant for Water Usage
Rent Freeze Resulted from Prior Rent Reduction Order
IAI Rent Increase Complied with Rent Stabilization Requirements
Tenant Can't Challenge Pre-Base Date Rent Increases Absent Showing of Fraud
Apartment Was Properly Deregulated Based on Vacancy and IAI Rent Increases
Rent Overcharge Decided Using Default Formula
DHCR Reverses Claim That It Didn't Receive Landlord's Answer to Rent Overcharge Complaint
Landlord Properly Increased Tenant's Preferential Rents Under Applicable Law
Rent Overcharge of $150,000 Results from Outstanding Rent Reduction Order
Court of Appeals Upholds Prevention of Luxury Deregulation After June 14, 2019 Despite Pre-HSTPA Deregulation Orders
DHCR Must Go Back More Than Four Years to Calculate Legal Rent in Pre-HSTPA Case
DHCR's Finding of No Rent Overcharge Upheld as Rational and Based on Record
Is Landlord Responsible for Flooring Contractor Employee's Injuries?
Landlord's Request to Dismiss Tenants' Fraudulent Deregulation Claim Was Premature
Shareholder-Tenant's Romantic Partner Can't Inherit Apartment as "Spouse"
Tenants Owe Landlord Damages for Rooftop Use
Landlord Can Amend Answer to Overcharge Claim
Tenants Sufficiently Presented Claims of Overcharge and Improper Deregulation
Tenants Claiming Discrimination Can Proceed with Retaliation Claim
Was Vacancy Deregulation of Tenant's Apartment Lawful?
Prior Court Stipulation that Deemed Tenants Rent Stabilized Permitted Pass-on Rights for Daughter
Landlord Not Responsible for Dog Attack on Food Delivery Person
Tenants' Late Filing of Notice of Claim for Child's Lead Poisoning Excused by Court
Landlord Didn't Give Tenant Violence Against Women Act Notice
Tenants' Claim of Improper Deregulation Dismissed
Project-Based Section 8 Tenant's Son Gets Apartment After Tenant Dies
Holdover Proceeding Dismissed Based on Proof of Retaliatory Eviction
Tenant Gets Full Abatement for Rent-Impairing Violations
Federal Court Dismisses NYCHA Employee's Discrimination Claim
Landlord Can't Maintain Eviction Case Against Rent-Stabilized Tenant with No Current Lease
Tenant Not Responsible for Injuries to Visitor Who Was Injured in Building's Common Area
Landlord Waited Too Long to Seek Restoration of Case to Court Calendar
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