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:
The media frenzy over bed bugs died more than a year ago. But if you live in New York City (or own or manage a building here), the basic question hasn’t changed: It’s not if bed bugs will arrive at your building—it’s when…and when they do, will your building be ready?
Last year's holiday tipping poll results were eye opening: Nearly 1,000 of you--55% of our 1,776 poll-takers--said you planned to tip the staff no more than $500 total. Thirty percent planned to tip between $500 and $1,000, and just 15% said you would be shelling out more than $1,000.
But the poll didn't account for two potentially important differentiators: Whether you own or rent, and whether you live in a doorman or a non-doorman building.
Q. My lease is up for renewal, and my landlord is asking for a 10% increase on a two-year lease. This seems high to me as I have been a good tenant for the past four years and always pay on time.
I would like to try to negotiate it down to 6-7% and also ask for few much-needed improvements to the apartment--specifically, I'd like him to replace the sink with a nicer one with has under-cabinet storage, reglaze the bathtub, and upgrade the ancient refrigerator.
