do i get my excess rent back starting 30 years ago ?
owner never filed annual registration with DHCR. .goes back 30 years.
If its fraud u can go back further than the statute
I was never overcharged rent though. Got rent stabie leases throughout.
must be case law out there.
NYC Admin Code
CH4 Rent stabilization
Section 26-517 (e)
The failure to file a proper and timely initial or annual rent registration statement shall, until such time as such registration is filed, bar an owner from applying for or collecting any rent in excess of the legal regulated rent in effect on the date of the last preceding registration statement or if no such statements have been filed, the legal regulated rent in effect on the date that the housing accommodation became subject to the registration requirements of this section.