Brooklyn landlords hit with class actions for tricky rent math after taking tax breaks
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To many tenants, a month or two taken off the yearly rent sounds like a good deal.
But a slate of class-action lawsuits filed Thursday claim those popular discounts have been used fraudulently by some landlords — including billionaire developer and potential mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis — to get around rent stabilization rules.