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.
Posts by Teri Karush Rogers:
Tip tease - v. To insinuate a larger tip is at hand than what is eventually proffered.
Marshall tipteased the super with a fifty before handing over $5, and wound up replacing his own a/c.
Other Words of the Week:
In a dog-eat-dog city, sometimes it’s your dog walker who is eating—straight out of your fridge….or medicine cabinet, relieving you of your prescription medicines a few milligrams at a time.
“The prescription drug experience is very, very common,” says Elena Gretch, who started her upscale Manhattan pet-services business, It's a Dog's Life, in an attempt to cure “every bad experience” she had with walkers she had hired for her own dog.
Q. Does a board member have to resign when he puts his co-op unit on the market for sale? I don't recall anything in our building documents saying they have to, but should they, ethically, to avoid a potential conflict of interest?
There has been concern expressed that they may be subject to information that may not be available to others not on the Board and selling their units.
As a related question, what procedures, if any, should our Board follow when a Board member is a real estate agent with a listing in our building?
