TRIPLE DAMAGES ORDERED

Landlord Can't Prove Base Date Rent Was Preferential

July 15, 2013    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained of a rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $6,370, including triple damages. Landlord appealed, claiming that tenant paid a preferential rent on...

2004 Base Date Rent Frozen at Level Set by 1989 Rent Reduction Order

July 12, 2013    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained of a rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $13,877, including triple damages and interest. Tenant appealed, claiming that the DRA miscalculated the...

DHCR Looks Beyond Four-Year Base Date

May 16, 2013    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained of a rent overcharge. The DRA dismissed the complaint, finding no overcharge. Tenant appealed, claiming that there was an overcharge based on landlord's fraud and that the DHCR...

Default Method Properly Used to Calculate Rent Overcharge

May 16, 2013    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained of a rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund overcharges, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost. Landlord claimed that the DRA...

Landlord Collected Rent Increases Despite Rent Reduction Order

May 14, 2013    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained of a rent overcharge based on the existence of a prior rent reduction order issued on May 3, 2006. The DRA ruled for tenant. Because the rent had not been restored by a later DHCR...

Default Procedure Used to Calculate Overcharge

February 11, 2013    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained of a rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund the overcharge with triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost. The DRA calculated the overcharge using...

Landlord Overcharged Hotel-Stabilized Tenant

February 4, 2013    

Hotel-stabilized tenant complained of a rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $2,478, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost. The rent roll submitted by landlord didn...

Landlord Continued to Overcharge Tenant

January 15, 2013    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained of a rent overcharge. He claimed that landlord continued to charge and collect renewal lease increases even though tenant's rent was frozen due to a rent reduction order based on...

Triple Damages Imposed

January 15, 2013    

Tenant complained of a rent overcharge. His monthly rent was $1,810. Landlord claimed that individual apartment improvements performed before tenant moved in resulted in a legal regulated rent for the apartment that...

Landlord Collected Overcharge from Tenant with DRIE

January 14, 2013    

SRO tenant filed a rent overcharge complaint, claiming that landlord charged more than the rent permitted by hotel stabilization guidelines. The DRA ruled for tenant, and ordered a rent refund with triple damages....

Four-Year Time Limit Doesn't Apply to Rent Freeze

December 12, 2012    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained of a rent overcharge based on landlord's refusal to comply with rent reduction orders issued more than four years before the date of tenant's complaint. The DHCR ruled that...

Tenants Can Pierce Landlord's Corporate Veil

November 15, 2012    

Tenants sued landlord for a rent overcharge. Landlord was a corporation, and tenants asked to pierce the corporate veil so that individual landlord would be responsible for the overcharge. The court ruled for tenants...