Tenant complained to the DHCR in January 2019 of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and directed landlord to refund $67,000, including triple damages. The overcharge finding was based in part on a rent freeze...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant, finding that the total overcharge with triple damages was $140,625. But since landlord had already refunded $143,891, no refund was...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge, based on landlord's collection of the full legal regulated rent from tenant while a prior DHCR rent reduction order remained in effect. The DRA...
Rent-stabilized tenants complained to the DHCR in 2017 of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenants based on RSC Section 2520.11(r)(5) and the 2018 Court of Appeals ruling in Altman v. 285 W. Fourth LLC...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant, finding a total overcharge with triple damages of $102.51. Since tenant owed $36,791 to landlord in back rent, no refund was...
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...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in 2017. The DRA ruled for tenant. Because there was a 1989 DHCR service/rent reduction order in place on the 2013 base date, the legal regulated rent...
(Decision submitted by Elizabeth Lentini, Esq. of the Manhattan law firm of Borah, Goldstein, Altschuler, Nahins & Goidel, P.C., attorneys for the landlord.)
Tenant complained to the DHCR in 2017 of rent overcharge and unlawful apartment deregulation. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $24,962, including triple damages. Landlord appealed, claiming...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in 2018, noting that the apartment rent had increased from $765.82 to $1,500 when he moved into the unit in 2015. Landlord answered that the tenant...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and found that there was a total overcharge with interest equal to $22,014. Since landlord had refunded $44,709 to tenant while the...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant but found no refund was owed. The overcharge wasn't willful, and landlord had refunded more than the overcharge amount plus interest...
