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:
Obscured by the NY Post's Weinergate coverage yesterday was a spot-on opinion piece calling for public disclosure of all New York City rents, not just for rent-stabilized apartments.
"When you're looking for a new apartment, you have no objective source to turn to to find out what other people in the neighborhood are paying," notes opinion writer Nicole Gelinas.
Q. What is the average monthly fee for a bike space in a Manhattan co-op or condo? What about individual storage units?
A. According to BrickUnderground expert panel member and property manager Thomas Usztoke, there is no such thing as an average fee.
Certain types of condo buyers have been hiding behind LLC's and investment trusts for a long time in New York City. A celebrity-studded NY Times real estate story parses the LLC demo this weekend, including:
BrickUnderground officially kicks off our Renter Referral Program today, a new referral service designed to take the Russian Roulette out of finding a good Manhattan rental agent.
The premise is pretty simple: Rather than find an agent by clicking on random apartment listings or walking into the nearest brokerage, renters will be paired up with someone who not only knows what to do, but wants to do the best job possible in order to remain in BrickUnderground's referral network.
We've never been fans of Russian Roulette, which is basically the game renters play when they find a rental agent by clicking on a random rental listing or walking into the nearest brokerage.
