Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR in January 2019 of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and directed landlord to refund $10,588, which included triple damages. The overcharge occurred after the...
Tenant complained to the DHCR in 2020 of rent overcharge and unlawful apartment deregulation. Landlord claimed that the former rent-controlled tenant moved out in 2002, that landlord then performed $45,500 in...
An unregulated tenant complained to the DHCR in December 2019 that he was specifically overcharged because he paid three months' rent at $2,600 per month when he moved into his apartment in July 2019. He claimed...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant, finding a total overcharge of $3,361. When triple damages were added, and the amount of a prior refund deducted, the total...
White Plains tenants complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenants and dismissed their complaint, finding that the apartment had been vacancy-deregulated in 2006 before tenants moved in....
Tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge and improper apartment deregulation. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that the apartment had been deregulated in 2010. This was before tenant moved into the unit...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR in April 2019 of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, who appealed and lost. Tenant argued that landlord had illegally raised her preferential rent beyond...
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...
Building tenants sued landlord in 2018 for rent overcharge. In connection with pre-trial discovery, the court granted tenants' request to compel landlord to produce their operating and management agreements, all...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in 2019. Tenant had moved into the unit in 2018 under a vacancy lease with a legal regulated rent of $2,059 and a preferential rent of $1,725. Among...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR in 2019 of rent overcharge. Tenant claimed that landlord ignored the fact that tenant had received DRIE benefits, which had frozen the portion of monthly rent collectible...
Tenants complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in early 2019. They claimed that landlord illegally rented rent-stabilized apartments in the building without a proper Certificate of Occupancy (C of O). They said...
