The DHCR's Tenant Protection Unit (TPU) commenced an individual apartment improvement (IAI) audit of an apartment rent based on a review of rent registrations. Based on landlord's failure to comply with the...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $89,000, including interest. Landlord and tenant both appealed and lost. Landlord claimed that the DRA improperly...
(Decision submitted by Ronald S. Languedoc of the Manhattan law firm of Himmelstein, McConnell, Gribben, Donoghue & Joseph LLP, attorneys for the tenant.)
Landlord sued to evict unregulated tenant. Tenant claimed that his apartment was improperly deregulated and that he was overcharged. The court ruled for tenant. Prior landlord last registered the apartment as rent...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $9,680, including triple damages for willful rent overcharge. Landlord appealed and won, in part. The DHCR...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge, claiming that landlord had improperly deregulated his apartment in a J-51 building. The DRA ruled for tenant, finding the base date rent of $1,925 was legal but that there had...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $6,776, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and won, claiming that there was no willful overcharge...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $11,995, including interest and triple damages. Landlord appealed and won, in part. The overcharge...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant, disallowed some of the individual apartment improvement (IAI) increases claimed by landlord, and ordered landlord to refund $1,302,...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $18,700, including interest. Landlord and tenant both appealed and lost. Landlord claimed that the...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant, finding willful overcharge, and ordered landlord to refund $34,400, including $16,300 in triple damages. Landlord appealed, claiming...
