Bealer v. District of Columbia Rental Housing Commission

TERRY, Associate Judge:

A representative of a tenant association, acting on behalf of all the tenants in her eighteen-unit apartment building, filed a petition with the Rental Accommodations Office claiming that the tenants were entitled to a rollback and a partial refund of their rent based on a reduction in services and other deficiencies in their building. The petition estimated that the total value of the reduced services was $30,000. A hearing examiner found, after taking testimony, that the apartment building was without heat for approximately sixty-three days during a four-and-one-half…