Landlord harassment. Illegal rent increases. Wrongful eviction attempts. NYC tenants have powerful legal rights — and we enforce every single one of them. No fee unless we win.
Tell us your situation. We'll explain your rights and what your landlord owes you — free.
If your apartment is rent stabilized and your landlord is charging more than the legal regulated rent, that's a rent overcharge — and you may be entitled to years of refunds.
NYC law prohibits landlords from using any means to force tenants out of their homes. This includes a long list of illegal tactics that carry substantial penalties.
Landlords must follow strict legal procedures to evict tenants. Procedural failures, pretextual evictions, and retaliatory evictions are all grounds for legal action.
The NY Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR) is the agency that handles rent stabilization. Most landlords count on tenants not knowing how to navigate it. We file DHCR complaints every week.
If DHCR finds the overcharge was willful, you are entitled to three times the amount overcharged for the 24 months before filing, plus attorney's fees. We make the willfulness argument on every overcharge case.
We pull your building's DHCR registration history and calculate exactly how much you've been overcharged going back as far as the records allow.
We file a comprehensive RA-89 overcharge complaint with all supporting documentation, including the fraud theory where applicable under HSTPA 2019.
DHCR investigates and orders the landlord to provide all rent registration records. We respond to everything and push hard for a willful finding.
DHCR issues an order setting your legal rent and ordering refund of overcharges. We pursue treble damages and attorney's fees under RPL § 234.
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Go to HCR.ny.gov and use the Rent Registration search. If your building was built before 1974 and has 6 or more units, it's likely stabilized. We'll also check for you — free — during your consultation.
Generally 6 years. However, under the HSTPA of 2019, if the overcharge was part of a fraudulent scheme to deregulate the apartment, there is no lookback limitation — we can go back indefinitely. This is a major expansion of tenant rights.
Call 311 immediately and document everything — photos, temperature readings, dates. Then call us. We can seek an emergency HP Action in Housing Court within 24–48 hours that compels immediate repairs and may award damages for the violation.
If DHCR or a court finds a rent overcharge was willful, you're entitled to three times the overcharge amount. So if you were overcharged $20,000 over the past two years, a willful finding yields $60,000 — plus attorney's fees. We pursue this argument on every applicable case.
Talk to us before signing anything. Buyout offers from landlords are almost always significantly below the true value of your tenancy rights. Once you sign, those rights are gone. The consultation is free and you may be entitled to far more than what's being offered.
No. Retaliatory eviction is illegal under the NYC Administrative Code and Real Property Law § 223-b. If your landlord tries to evict you within 90 days of a complaint or code enforcement action, there is a legal presumption of retaliation. That's a strong case.