Tenant complained of rent overcharge and improper apartment deregulation. Landlord showed that the apartment had been owner-occupied between 1999 and 2004, then rented at a first rent to a prior tenant, then...
The DHCR started a proceeding against landlord after finding that landlord failed to register a building that was subject to rent stabilization due to receipt of J-51 tax benefits between July 1, 2017, and June 30,...
The DHCR initiated a proceeding by issuing a Notice of Proposed Action to landlord in 2019 after finding that landlord failed to properly register apartments as rent stabilized for 2018 based on DOF records...
Tenant complained in 2016 of improper apartment deregulation and rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, who appealed and lost. The DRA found that landlord performed individual apartment improvements (IAIs)...
Tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in 2016. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that the apartment was no longer subject to rent stabilization. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant claimed that the unit...
Tenant asked the DHCR to determine whether her apartment was rent stabilized. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to offer tenant a rent-stabilized lease and to register the apartment.
Tenants filed a class action against landlord, claiming rent overcharge. The building had been temporarily exempt from rent stabilization on the base rent date four years earlier when it was owned by Brooklyn Law...
Tenant complained that his apartment had been improperly deregulated. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding in 2018 that the apartment was a newly created unit, that the first legal rent was above the $2,000 high-...
Tenant complained to the DHCR in 2018 of rent overcharge and improper apartment deregulation. The DRA ruled against tenant, who appealed and lost. The apartment had been legally deregulated in June 2008 due to high-...
Landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenants' rent-stabilized apartment in 2014. After confirming that tenants' annual household income exceeded the $200,000 income threshold for 2012...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding no overcharge. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant received a rent-stabilized vacancy lease when she moved into the unit in October 1995. But...
Tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that the apartment was no longer subject to rent stabilization. Tenant appealed and, while tenant's PAR was pending, the...
