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.com, a renter whose lease expires in nine months asks for help predicting the rent increase her landlord is likely to want. Citing many unknowns, including the state of the rental market nine months from now, commenters have issued a broad forecast converging on the 5-10% territory.
In the process, they attempt to plumb the minds of landlords vis-a-vis the dark art of lease renewals.
We found this perspective particularly interesting:
BrickUnderground moved into its new Midtown digs yesterday, and being a rather leanly staffed operation, we needed some extra muscles to lug our computer equipment and office supplies. So we turned to TaskRabbit.com, the new errand-running matchmaker we wrote about a couple of weeks ago.
Q. My apartment is on the market, and I recently learned that the building next door is planning to add three more stories and that my apartment will lose two east-facing windows. Do I have to tell prospective buyers?
A. Maybe, and regardless of whether you have to, you probably should, say our experts.
Some lessons are typically learned through experience (the unpleasant kind), and that is especially true of New York City real estate: When you're looking for an apartment, you often don't know what to ask unless you've already endured the thing you should be asking about.
