Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on elevator upgrading. The DHCR ruled for landlord. Tenants appealed and lost. Tenants claimed that landlord filed its application more than two years after completion of the...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, who appealed and lost. Tenant then filed an Article 78 court appeal, claiming that the DHCR's decision was arbitrary and...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR in 2018 of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and directed landlord to refund $15,873, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost. The DRA had properly...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and found a total overcharge of $9,943, including triple damages and interest. The DRA noted that, after a partial refund already granted...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR on June 25, 2019, of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered a refund of $50,869, including triple damages, for overcharges occurring between 2015 and 2023...
A Bronxville tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. She lived in a rent-stabilized apartment in landlord's building, and later moved into a different, unregulated apartment in the same building. Tenant...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $1,170, including triple damages. Tenant appealed and won. Tenant argued that the actual overcharge was...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant, finding that landlord collected $3,500 per month for 18 months when the legal rent was $2,903. The DRA directed landlord to...
In 2017, the DHCR's Rent Administrator opened a rent overcharge proceeding upon referral from the agency's Tenant Protection Unit (TPU). In June 2021, the DRA requested from landlord complete rent history...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in 2020. Despite a number of granted extensions, landlord didn't submit any rent history records. The DRA then ruled for tenant and set the base...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR that landlord failed to renew his lease and overcharged him. Tenant claimed that certain claimed individual apartment improvements (IAIs) hadn't been completed. The...
Tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that the apartment was subject to rent stabilization. Tenant appealed and lost. In a prior DHCR ruling, the agency found that a...
