Should I bring my claim against my landlord as a class action?

Jun 16, 2025

UPDATE August 2025: The case explored in Episode 48 was reversed on appeal: See Stafford v. A&E Real Estate Holdings, LLC, 240 AD3d 421 [1st Dept 2025]. Look for a follow up episode!

In Episode 48, we give you a bunch of information to help you answer the question: Should I bring my claim against my landlord as a class action? A lawyer or someone else is telling you that you can bring a Rent Stabilization rent overcharge case against your landlord as a class action. Should you do that? What is a class action? What are the pros of a class action? What are the cons of a class action? What are alternatives to bringing a class action? And what are the pros and cons of the alternatives?

This episode also imparts a ton of information about pre-HSTPA Rent Stabilization Individual Apartment Improvement rent increases.

Listen on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Links:

• Tenant Law Podcast Website

• Today’s Case Stafford v. A&E Real Estate Holdings, LLC, 2025 WL 622569 [Supreme Court, New York County 2025]

• The transcript of the oral argument on the motion that led to today’s case.

• Another example of a Rent Stabilization class action. Marcondes v. Fort 710 Associates, L.P., 75 Misc.3d 1214(A) [Supreme Court, New York County 2022]

• Filing an overcharge claim at DHCR; Application.

• Suggest future topics at [email protected].