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...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $8,224, including triple damages and excess security deposit. Landlord appealed and lost. Landlord claimed...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge and claimed that her apartment was illegally deregulated. The DRA ruled for tenant, found that she was rent stabilized, reduced her rent from $2,410 to $1,965, and ordered...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonpayment of rent. Tenant had no current renewal lease and claimed that she had paid a preferential rent. Landlord was claiming that a higher legal rent was due and...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund an overcharge. The DRA found that, since landlord failed to provide pre-base date rent history records to...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge. Landlord claimed that tenant paid a preferential rent under his initial lease but failed to submit a copy of the pre-base date lease of the last prior tenant in response to the...
Landlord sued to evict unregulated tenant after tenant's lease expired. Tenant claimed that he was rent stabilized and that the apartment was improperly deregulated. The court ruled for tenant and dismissed the...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge after landlord discontinued a preferential rent charged to tenant. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that tenant's base date lease included a legal...
Rent-stabilized tenant in building receiving Real Property Tax Law Section 421-a tax benefits complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $4,200, including triple damages....
