For NYC plaintiffs' firms

Turn a DHCR rent history into a court-ready overcharge case in minutes.

A deterministic, statute-cited DHCR legal-rent engine — RSC, HSTPA, Regina Metro, Roberts — with an audit trail behind every number. Take a stack of rent histories from intake to a filing decision, fast.

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Average identified recovery per qualifying case
$22k+

Average identified recovery per qualifying case

From a DHCR rent history to a filing decision
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From a DHCR rent history to a filing decision

Of your recovery — flat subscription, never a cut
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Of your recovery — flat subscription, never a cut

Rent-registration ledger

DHCR · anonymized
2018$1,750
2020vacancy ↑$2,400
2022$2,497
2023IAI ↑$2,950

Estimated recoverable overcharge

$26,800$11,400$52,300
Conservative$11,400Full treble$52,300

Illustrative, anonymized. Every figure in the product traces to a cited rule.

The product, shown

One rent history in. A complete, cited filing package out.

Drop in a DHCR rent history. The deterministic engine reads it, derives the legal rent, and returns a cited analysis — then auto-generates the entire filing package.

RentGuard · Case analysisReading registrations…
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Reading the DHCR rent history…
Rent Registration History.pdf
2018$1,750
2019$1,798
2020$2,400
2021$2,448
2022$2,497
2023$2,950

Defensible by design

Every number carries a citation and an audit trail.

No black box. The engine is deterministic and rule-based — each figure traces to the governing statute and the derivation that produced it. Expand any finding to see the authority behind it.


  • Prior lawful rent $1,798 × applicable RGB renewal (2.5%) = $1,843 max legal. Registered $2,400 ⇒ $557/mo over the lawful rent. HSTPA (eff. 6/14/2019) repealed the vacancy allowance, so no vacancy bonus was available in 2020.

    Authority: HSTPA Part D · RSC §2522.8 · traced to the engine derivation ledger.

  • Claimed IAI raised the rent from $2,497 to $2,950. No IAI substantiation appears in the registration record; the post-HSTPA cap ($89.29/mo over 15 years on a ≤35-unit building) is exceeded. Excess over the lawful $1,955 = $995/mo.

    Authority: RSC §2522.4(a) · HSTPA Part K · traced to the engine derivation ledger.

  • Base date is 6 years before the complaint (2020). The base-date registration ($2,400) reflects the illegal 2020 vacancy increase; the lawful base-date rent is $1,843. The difference compounds through each subsequent renewal.

    Authority: RSC §2526.1(a)(3) · HSTPA · traced to the engine derivation ledger.

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Check a building before you sign up.

Enter any NYC address. You'll get an instant stabilization likelihood and the public-data exposure signals — the same Tier-1 read our portfolio scanner uses. Test it on a building you already know.

Public data only. Returns a stabilization likelihood + exposure signals — never a damages figure. Test it on a building you already know.

The math

What a faster review is worth to your practice.

Review time reclaimed

78 hrs/mo

$27,300/mo · $327,600/yr in billable time

Indicative recovery pipeline

$792,000/yr

Illustrative only — not a prediction or guarantee of recovery. Assumes 15% of reviewed cases carry a recoverable overcharge (adjust above) × $22,000 average identified recovery.

An anonymized case

Click any flagged year to see the authority behind it.

A real, anonymized rent chain. Registered rent in red where it exceeds the lawful maximum — expand a flagged year for the cited derivation, the same audit trail that flows into the methodology export.

YearRegisteredMax legal
  • Illegal vacancy increase (2020)HSTPA Part D · RSC §2522.8

    Prior lawful rent $1,798 × applicable RGB renewal (2.5%) = $1,843 max legal. Registered $2,400 ⇒ $557/mo over the lawful rent. HSTPA (eff. 6/14/2019) repealed the vacancy allowance, so no vacancy bonus was available in 2020.

  • Unsubstantiated IAI increase (2023)RSC §2522.4(a) · HSTPA Part K

    Claimed IAI raised the rent from $2,497 to $2,950. No IAI substantiation appears in the registration record; the post-HSTPA cap ($89.29/mo over 15 years on a ≤35-unit building) is exceeded. Excess over the lawful $1,955 = $995/mo.

Kept current

The engine tracks the law so you don't have to wonder if it's stale.

Calibration versions, RGB orders, and the governing case law the engine incorporates.

  1. Jun 2026
    EngineEngine calibrated

    Baseline calibration — recovery-range probabilities and building-risk signals established and reviewed against case data.

  2. Jun 2026
    EngineCalibration update — portfolio risk signals refined

    Sharpened detection of landlords with large holdings across multiple buildings, so portfolio scans surface stronger prospects.

  3. Oct 2025
    RGBRGB Order #57 applied

    1-year renewals 3.0%, 2-year 4.5% (Oct 2025 – Sep 2026).

  4. Oct 2024
    RGBRGB Order #56 applied

    1-year renewals 2.75%, 2-year 5.25% (Oct 2024 – Sep 2025).

  5. Apr 2020
    LawRegina Metropolitan Co. v. DHCR

    Court of Appeals framework for fraud + the extended-lookback exception.

  6. Jun 2019
    LawHSTPA enacted

    Repealed the vacancy bonus + high-rent decontrol; strengthened the willfulness presumption.

Capabilities

The whole practice, instrumented.

Portfolio discovery

Scan a building or landlord portfolio for likely-overcharged units, ranked by public-data risk score.

Landlord / LLC unmasking

Resolve shell LLCs to the beneficial owner via the public ownership graph — find the pattern across buildings.

Methodology export

An engine-version-pinned, court-ready derivation of every figure — reproducible from the inputs alone.

Conflicts checking

Flag same-building and same-landlord representation before you take the case.

Deadline tracking

DHCR and litigation deadlines surfaced per case so nothing slips.

Evidence bundles

Bates-stamped, privilege-aware packages assembled for filing and discovery.

Firm API

Push cases in and pull analysis out — integrate the engine with your existing case system.

Portfolio discovery

One client can become a building. One landlord, a portfolio.

Resolve a landlord's shell LLCs to the beneficial owner and surface every building — and every likely-overcharged unit — ranked by public-data risk. The same Tier-1 signals you can try in the live lookup, run across a whole portfolio.

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LLC

Illustrative owner graph — one beneficial owner, five buildings.

Pricing

Flat monthly. Never a share of recovery.

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FAQ

Questions attorneys ask.

No. The platform charges a flat monthly subscription. We never touch settlement money or take any share of recovery — the contingency relationship is exclusively between your firm and your client.

Every number cites the governing rule — RSC §2522.5 for renewal increases, §2522.8 for vacancy leases, §2526.1(a)(3) for the base date, the relevant RGB order for the year, HSTPA for the lookback window. The audit trail goes into your case file automatically.

No. The live lookup returns public-data likelihood and exposure signals only — never a damages figure or a guarantee of stabilization. The full cited analysis, recovery range, and document suite run inside the product on your case data.

Yes. Each subscription includes seats for attorneys and staff. Firm admins manage the roster; attorney users can intake, analyze, and update cases.

Yes. Firm cases live in a separate data model with strict per-firm scoping. No firm can see another firm’s cases, and the consumer-side flow is entirely independent. Access is protected by 2FA and a full audit log.

After the deterministic formula runs, a model pass reviews the output against the underlying registrations and flags inconsistencies or items the formula may have missed. It never replaces the formula — only adds an advisory layer.

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