The DHCR's Tenant Protection Unit (TPU) audited individual apartment improvements (IAIs) to tenant's apartment, then disallowed IAI costs and directed landlord to reduce tenant's rent. Landlord objected...
Rent-stabilized tenant sued landlord, claiming improper deregulation of tenant's apartment and rent overcharge. Tenant claimed that she was rent stabilized since the building had received J-51 tax benefits and...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $23,662, including triple damages and interest. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant claimed that landlord had...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonpayment of rent. At some point, tenant claimed rent overcharge and argued that her monthly $1,500 rent was the legal rent, not a preferential rent. Tenant asked...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $3,228, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost. Landlord claimed that there was no willful...
Tenant sued landlord, claiming improper apartment deregulation and rent overcharge. Tenant moved into the apartment in 1999 at a monthly rent of $1,400. In 2017, landlord advised tenant that her lease wouldn't be...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent. Tenant claimed that landlord had fraudulently set tenant's vacancy rent in 2008, based on a prior fictitious legal rent. The court ruled for tenant, found...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $7,575, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost. Although landlord claimed that it had given...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $23,000, including interest and triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost. Landlord argued that it had...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant, froze tenant's rent at the base date rent of $1,800 per month due to landlord's failure to file rent registrations, and ordered...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $8,240, including triple damages, although triple damages weren't applied to the portion of the...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant based on a pre-base date rent reduction order, which froze the collectible rent on the base date until landlord filed for and obtained a...
