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:
Q. What impact are this year's significantly lower Wall Street bonuses expected to have on sales prices of co-ops or condos?
Will a particular segment of the market be more affected, like family apartments versus starter apartments, or Manhattan versus Brooklyn?
Q. Is there any situation where it is proper or legal for a property management firm to accept compensation or favors from the vendors it recommends to the board of my co-op?
Also, if the firm has an interest of any kind in the vendor, does it have to disclose it--or at least answer truthfully if asked?
A. According to our experts, disclosure is the name of the game here.
Though somewhat discombobulated by the acronyms and energy politics soaring around the Cleantech Corridor solar energy panel we attended last night, BrickUnderground managed to latch on to two related tidbits.
Q. I am a tenant in a garden apartment of a brownstone in Brooklyn. My landlords live above me, and while I like the family very much, they have two children that are becoming an increasing disruption.
The children run back and forth through the apartment, scream, jump, stomp the floor, and bounce balls, sometimes for well over an hour. In doing so, they produce loud noise several times throughout the day, often awakening me in the mornings.
