Landlord sued to evict month-to-month tenant after sending a 30-day termination notice. Tenant claimed rent overcharge. Landlord then discontinued the eviction claim, but the court considered tenant's request to...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonpayment of rent. Tenant claimed rent overcharge. The court ruled for tenant in August 2019 and ordered landlord to refund $90,673, including triple damages.
Tenant sued landlord in 2014, claiming that his apartment was unlawfully deregulated and that he had been overcharged. Tenant claimed that his legal monthly rent was $628 based on the last amount validly registered...
Rent-stabilized tenant's roommate complained that tenant overcharged him by charging him a disproportionate share of the apartment rent. The DRA ruled against the roommate because, although he was overcharged on...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $12,954, including triple damages. Tenant appealed to the DHCR and lost, then filed an Article 78 court...
Tenant complained of improper apartment deregulation and rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that the apartment was exempt from rent stabilization due to high-rent vacancy deregulation in 2011....
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge based on a prior DHCR rent reduction order. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $1,873, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and won, in...
The DHCR's Tenant Protection Unit (TPU) did an individual apartment improvement (IAI) audit of tenant's rent-stabilized apartment and found that landlord's claimed IAIs didn't support the apartment...
Rent-stabilized tenant sued landlord, claiming rent overcharge and fraudulent rent increases. The court ruled for landlord and dismissed the case. Since the case was filed before HSTPA amended the law in June 2019,...
Tenant sued landlord for rent overcharge in connection with two apartments in the same building. Tenant had lived in Apt. 6 from 2007 through April 2014, then moved into Apt. 4 under a written agreement with...
Tenants of four buildings sued landlord for improper deregulation and rent overcharge in a proposed class action lawsuit. Tenants claimed that all four building were enrolled in the J-1 tax benefit program and...
