Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent. Tenant claimed rent overcharge. The court ruled for tenant after landlord failed to present proof of claimed individual apartment improvements (IAIs) to the...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA found no overcharge and dismissed the complaint. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant claimed that landlord had improperly deregulated the apartment while the...
The DHCR's Tenant Protection Unit (TPU) audited individual apartment improvements (IAIs) to tenant's apartment, then disallowed IAI costs and directed landlord to reduce tenant's rent. Landlord objected...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge and claimed that a rent increase based on individual apartment improvements (IAIs) was improperly calculated. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $45,487, including triple damages and interest. The DHCR used its default formula to set the base rent...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $19,987, including interest. The DRA found that the overcharge resulted from a series of rent reduction...
(Decision submitted by attorney Michael Littman of the Rockville Centre law firm of Sidrane, Schwartz-Sidrane, Perinbasekar & Littman, LLP, who represented the landlord.)
Rent-stabilized tenant sued landlord, claiming improper deregulation of tenant's apartment and rent overcharge. Tenant claimed that she was rent stabilized since the building had received J-51 tax benefits and...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $23,100, including triple damages. Landlord appealed the portion of the DRA's order that assessed triple damages,...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that all rent increases were lawful and that tenant was properly vacancy deregulated. But the DRA also ruled that tenant remained rent...
The DHCR's Tenant Protection Unit (TPU) commenced an individual apartment improvement (IAI) audit of an apartment rent based on a review of rent registrations. Based on landlord's failure to comply with the...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. Tenant had moved into the apartment in 2002 and filed her overcharge complaint in 2016. The DRA found no overcharge since the 2012 base date.
