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. I have reason to suspect that the president of my co-op board for the last 14 years is in cahoots with the management firm, pushing through sweetheart deals with vendors recommended by the management firm in exchange for kickbacks. The final straw was when the roofing company hired by the building did such an awful job that I have had water leaking into my top-floor apartment for the last 10 months (it never did before). What are my options?
Sure, you could get a better paying job or take in a roommate in order to afford your pricey NYC digs. Or you could adopt some of the clever and not-so-painful-really austerity measures we recently ran across in an UrbanBaby.com discussion, such as:
Sooner or later, most renters experience the need or desire to prematurely break up with an apartment.
Breaking your lease may be no problem if your employer is paying relo expenses that cover the balance of the rent due, or if you don’t mind forking over the balance yourself.
Just because a co-op says it's "dog friendly" doesn't mean it will welcome yours.
Q. I have a lease on a loft in Brooklyn where I sublease two other rooms out. One of my recent tenants moved out and left the room a complete mess with one broken window. I was not there so I hired a cleaning crew to come take care of the room before the next tenant moved in the following day.
