Tenant complained to the DHCR in 2018 of rent overcharge and improper deregulation of his apartment. The DRA ruled for tenant, found that he was rent stabilized, and found a total overcharge following the four-year...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in January 2019. The DRA ruled for tenant in part, finding that there was a rent overcharge but insufficient evidence of fraud as tenant claimed. So...
Building tenants sued landlord in 2018 for rent overcharge. In connection with pre-trial discovery, the court granted tenants' request to compel landlord to produce their operating and management agreements, all...
Landlord sued to evict tenant after serving a tenancy termination notice. Landlord claimed that, although the building was rent stabilized, tenant's apartment was exempt from rent stabilization due to high-rent...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in 2019. Tenant had moved into the unit in 2018 under a vacancy lease with a legal regulated rent of $2,059 and a preferential rent of $1,725. Among...
The DHCR's Tenant Protection Unit (TPU) conducted an investigation of an apartment to determine its legal regulated rent (LRR). When landlord failed to respond to a 2016 TPU subpoena for rent records, TPU...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR in 2019 of rent overcharge. Tenant claimed that landlord ignored the fact that tenant had received DRIE benefits, which had frozen the portion of monthly rent collectible...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in 2017. The DRA ruled for tenant. Because there was a 1989 DHCR service/rent reduction order in place on the 2013 base date, the legal regulated rent...
Tenant in a building receiving RPTL Section 421-a tax benefits sued landlord for rent overcharge. Tenant claimed that landlord engaged in a scheme to evade the rent stabilization law by using rent concessions to...
(Decision submitted by Elizabeth Lentini, Esq. of the Manhattan law firm of Borah, Goldstein, Altschuler, Nahins & Goidel, P.C., attorneys for the landlord.)
In 2013, tenant complained to the DHCR that landlord failed to offer him a rent-stabilized renewal lease. Tenant didn't complain at that time of rent overcharge but asked for a ruling that the unit was subject to...
Tenants sued landlord for rent overcharge. The court ruled for tenants without trial and set the matter down for a hearing to calculate overcharges under the default formula set forth in Rent Stabilization Code...
