Tenant complained of rent overcharge and improper deregulation of a rent-stabilized apartment while the building received J-51 tax benefits. Landlord argued there was no overcharge because tenant paid a preferential...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $7,521, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost. Landlord failed to prove that tenant had a...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $10,829, including triple damages. The overcharge finding was based on landlord's failure to prove...
(Decision submitted by Eileen O'Toole, Esq. of the Manhattan law firm of Borah, Goldstein, Altschuler, Nahins & Goidel, P.C., attorneys for the landlord.)
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $3,454.74, including interest. Landlord appealed and lost. For the first time on appeal, landlord...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DHCR ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $34,826, including interest. Landlord then filed an Article 78 court appeal. The court sent the case back to the DHCR for...
Tenant complained that landlord refused to renew her rent-stabilized lease on the same terms and conditions as her expiring lease. Tenant claimed that landlord offered a renewal lease at a monthly rent of $1,998...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant, claiming that tenant failed to sign an offered renewal lease. Landlord claimed that it bought the building in a foreclosure sale, didn't receive lease documentation...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. Landlord claimed that tenant paid a preferential rent and that there was no overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and found a total overcharge of $5,400, including...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and found that because landlord failed to establish that there was a previously higher legal rent, the monthly $910 rent paid on the April 20, 2012, base...
