Tenant complained to the DHCR in 2018 of rent overcharge and improper deregulation of her apartment. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that the unit was deregulated in 2009, which was prior to the 2014 base rent...
Rent-stabilized tenant in a building complained to the DHCR in 2017 of rent overcharge. He had moved into the unit in 1993 and claimed that he had been overcharged for 20 years. He also claimed that landlord had...
Tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and directed landlord to refund a total of $2,687, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost. In September 2022, landlord had...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge and improper apartment deregulation in April 2019. Landlord claimed that there was no overcharge and that the unit had been vacancy-deregulated when...
Tenant complained to the DHCR in 2018 of rent overcharge and improper deregulation of his apartment. The DRA ruled for tenant, found that he was rent stabilized, and found a total overcharge following the four-year...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in January 2019. The DRA ruled for tenant in part, finding that there was a rent overcharge but insufficient evidence of fraud as tenant claimed. So...
Landlord asked the DHCR in 2018 for permission to modify required services for rent-stabilized tenants by removing the building's service elevator. Landlord had in fact already removed the service elevator. The...
Landlord asked the DHCR for a ruling on whether his rent-stabilized tenant's preferential rent could be discontinued by landlord when his renewal lease expired in 2020. In a 2014 housing court proceeding,...
Landlord asked the DHCR in 2016 for a ruling on the legal regulated rent for an apartment. Landlord claimed that the apartment occupant had been the building's janitor until his employment was terminated in...
A rent-stabilized tenant's son complained to the DHCR that landlord refused to offer him a renewal lease after tenant moved out of the apartment. The DRA ruled against the son, who appealed and lost. The DRA had...
Tenant asked the DHCR for a ruling on her regulatory status, claiming that she was subject to rent stabilization. The DRA ruled for tenant and set her legal regulated rent at $1,190.
Landlord applied to the DHCR for MCI rent hikes based on installation of new windows building-wide. The DRA ruled for landlord, finding it had replaced 518 windows in the building as well as nine windows in the...
