Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge based on a 2018 DHCR building-wide rent reduction order, which froze collectible rents at the building effective Dec. 1, 2017. The DRA ruled for tenant and...
Former tenant complained of rent overcharge for the period between June 15, 2012, and Oct. 31, 2013. The DRA ruled for tenant, based on a DHCR rent reduction order that was in effect during tenant's occupancy....
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge based on landlord's continued collection of the full legal regulated rent after the DHCR issued a rent reduction order based on a reduction in services. The...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding no rent overcharge. Tenant appealed, and the DHCR denied his PAR. Tenant then filed an Article 78 court appeal, claiming...
The DHCR's Tenant Protection Unit (TPU) filed a rent overcharge complaint concerning tenants' apartment, based on its audit finding that landlord failed to justify the cost individual apartment improvements (...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant, applied a six-year lookback period, and ordered landlord to refund $16,000, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost....
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. He said that (a) he never received a lease from landlord in 2007; (b) the apartment registrations were fraudulent; and (c) landlord's claim that tenant had a...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, who appealed and claimed that landlord engaged in a fraudulent scheme to deregulate the apartment. The DHCR sent the case back to...
Landlord sued to evict tenant, who was prior building super, for nonpayment of rent. The court ruled for tenant in 2015, finding that the apartment was rent stabilized and that the legal regulated rent was $1,500 per...
Tenant sued landlord, claiming that her apartment was rent stabilized, that it had been improperly deregulated, and that she had been overcharged. Landlord asked the court to dismiss the case, and tenant asked the...
