Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2018. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $13,204, including interest and triple damages. Landlord appealed, claiming that the DRA failed to...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant, finding some overcharge but also finding that rent arrears were more than the $5,117 overcharge found. So landlord owed no refund to...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in May 2018, and pointed out that the DHCR had issued a rent reduction order in 2008. That order reduced the apartment rent to $1 per month. Tenant had...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent. In response, tenant claimed rent overcharge. In May 2023 tenant asked for permission to amend her answer to plead a common law fraudulent scheme to deregulate the...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonpayment of rent in 2022. Tenant had lived in the unit since 1997. Among other things, he claimed fraudulent rent overcharge, and asked the court for permission to...
Tenant sued landlord, claiming that she was charged more than the maximum legal rent under rent stabilization while the building received RPTL Section 421-a tax benefits. Tenant claimed that landlord engaged in a...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in 2016. The DHCR ruled for tenant. A DHCR rent reduction order had been in effect since 1996. So, the rent freeze resulting from that order remained...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonpayment of rent. Tenant claimed improper deregulation of her apartment and rent overcharge. The trial court ruled for tenant, finding that the base date rent was...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and, after finding that landlord already had given tenant a rent credit in December 2023 for $1,802, directed landlord to...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in March 2019. The DRA ruled for tenant, finding that the overcharge resulted by the landlord waiving its right to charge a higher legal rent when it...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge on July 9, 2019. Tenant had moved into the apartment on Dec. 1, 2002, 17 years earlier. The DRA dismissed tenant's complaint after landlord...
Tenant in a building receiving 421-a tax benefits sued landlord, claiming rent overcharge and violations of the Rent Stabilization Law. Tenant also sought to make the case a class action. The court denied landlord...
