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:
- Dear Woman Upstairs with Uncontrollable 9-Year-Old (UrbanBaby forum)
- Co-ops and condos ban laundry near windows (Reuters via StreetEasy)
- Model sues UES co-op for $10m after marrying "the help" (Curbed)
The price of NYC real estate may have dropped a lot, but that doesn't mean it's affordable. An apartment hunter passes along this observation in a StreetEasy discussion about which direction the market is going:
After reading a Chicago Tribune story on a national spike in slip-and-fall lawsuits against homeowners associations—a phenomenon thought to go hand-in-hand with a down economy—we checked in with some local lawyers and managing agents to see what's happening here.
Co-ops and condos will pay about 2 percent more (retroactive to last June), compared to last year’s hefty 9 percent hike, according to a memo distributed yesterday by Sonnenschein Sherman & Deutsch, a real estate law firm which does a healthy business protesting tax increases on behalf of its co-op and condo clients.
Exit tiny sigh of relief.
BrickUnderground is six months old today, and to mark the date, we’ve put together a list of our 25 most-read blog posts:
Q. My co-op just won a big settlement from our former managing agent for fraud committed from 2002-07. As a result of the fraud, everyone who lived here at the time had to pay anywhere from $4,000 to $9,000 in assessments for bogus or substandard repair work.
