The Rent Stabilization Association has sued the Rent Guidelines Board to raise the rents of tenants in rent-regulatd apartments. This year's rent increases, already much maligned by tenants, are 2.75% for one-year leases and 5.5% for two-year leases, which is too low for the RSA, which says that heating costs and taxes have outpaced that increase. Tenants rights group, the Metropolitan Council on Housing, tells Newsday, "It's outrageous the landlords are suing for even more when they don't deserve what they got in the first place," but the RSA says the lawsuit is really to get the Rent Guidelines Board to "release how it determines the rent hikes." You know, in the court of public opinion, landlords are always going to get a bum rap when their colleagues are engaging in emotional and sometimes physical warfare with tenants. If there's only group of New Yorkers that needs a PR consultant, it would be these knuckleheads.