Teri Karush Rogers
Founder and publisher Teri Karush Rogers launched Brick Underground in 2009. As a freelance journalist, she had previously covered New York City real estate for The New York Times. Teri has been featured as an expert on New York City residential real estate by The New York Times, New York Daily News, amNew York, NBC Nightly News, The Real Deal, Business Insider, the Huffington Post, and NY1 News, among others. Teri earned a BA in journalism and a law degree from New York University. During law school she realized she would rather explain things than argue about them, so she returned to service journalism after graduation.
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Most laptop-smartphone-iPad-riddled New Yorkers rank WiFi a smidgen below oxygen in terms of elemental life-sustaining forces.
Recognizing an inexpensive, no-brainer amenity when they see one, many developers beat both McDonalds and Starbucks in introducing free WiFi into the common spaces of their buildings.
While newer buildings are the earliest passengers on the complimentary WiFi bandwagon, it's an equal-opportunity amenity available to buildings of any vintage.
Generally speaking, there are three ways to bring WiFi into your common spaces, ranging from self-service to whole hog.
1. Down and dirty
Earlier this month, a fledgling organization of New York City apartment owners launched a modest website with an Olympic-sized ambition:
“The Alliance of Condo & Co-op Owners aims to help owners achieve fair play, transparency, and accountability in condo and co-op governance and operations.”
Lock in hosed - adj. The state of being hosed by a reduction in interest rates following a lock-in agreement with one's mortgage lender.
Despondent over a 25 basis point decline in mortgage rates just two weeks after his lock in, Simon decided to sell his condo and rent so he would never be lockinhosed again.
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