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:
Over on StreetEasy, a buyer wants to know how to sabotage his co-op board interview--and thereby walk away from the deal with his deposit in hand.
Though not all the suggestions were serious, taken together they offer a pretty fair inventory of the anxieties of your average co-op board:
1. Ask about running for the board and mention how you’d like to “shake things up”
2. Ask about having five dogs in the apartment
- What to do if you suspect your co-op board of fraud (NY Times)
- My doorman makes inappropriate remarks (UrbanBaby forum)
- Confessions of an underwater homeowner (Wall Street Journal)
- Do small c
Q. My upstairs neighbor is planning to combine apartments and put their new living room over my bedroom. I'm concerned about the potential for noise (they have two young children).
Do I have a right to ask the board to require them to soundproof their floor? If so, what exactly are the measures they should take?
A. You can certainly ask, but you might not receive, according to our BrickTank experts.
Their potential usefulness goes way beyond latkes: Think cat litter boxes, diaper changing stations and secondhand smoke.
