Mr. De Castro has successfully represented tenants in rent overcharge claims in housing court, civil court, state supreme court,and DHCR administrative proceedings. He began his legal training as a paralegal for Bronx Legal Aid Society, and now has a thriving private practice representing New York tenants. In all, Mr. De Castro has been researching and litigating rent overcharge cases for over 12 years.

Ethics and Lawyers' Websites

Mr. De Castro is a New York attorney. As such, state law requires that the information he provides meets a higher standard than would a webpage produced by a layperson.

Rentovercharge.com guides you through the basic questions your lawyer will raise as you consider bringing a rent overcharge claim. This site is not meant as a cookbook for tenants to attempt to do their own rent overcharge cases. On the contrary, the entire point of this site is that rent overcharge cases are complicated, and that you don't have to go it alone. Experienced attorneys are available to assist you individually.

Mr. De Castro offers to evaluate your case individually for free. Therefore, you have no excuse not to seek individual advice.

According to the Lawyer's Code of Professional Responsibility (EC 2-5), a lawyer who writes or speaks for the purpose of educating members of the public to recognize their legal problems "should carefully refrain from giving or appearing to give a general solution applicable to all apparently similar individual problems since slight changes in fact situations may require a material variance in the applicable advice." (Emphasis supplied.) Therefore, you are cautioned not to attempt to solve individual problems upon the basis of the information contained on this site without seeing an attorney first.