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:
Upstairs/downstairs angst is fueling a discussion on UrbanBaby.com in which most commenters say they're uncomfortable hanging around their apartments while their housekeepers clean. And it's not the dust or the noise.
It's no secret that more and more of NYC's property-tax battered co-ops are passing the buck by levying flip taxes on the sale of apartments. In fact, about two-thirds of 186 co-op boards surveyed in the May issue of Habitat Magazine say they have a flip tax (a.k.a. transfer fee). But the types and amounts vary vastly.
When it comes to trouble-making home-based businesses, psychiatrists and psychologists who practice out of their apartments field the most complaints from neighbors who see patients as security risks, according to a story in the May issue of Habitat Magazine (not yet available online).
Q. After learning that we are planning to put our apartment on the market, a neighbor made us an offer that we decided was too low. We haven't yet signed with a real estate broker, so what my husband and I are wondering is this: What if our neighbor comes back with an offer we would like to accept after we put our apartment on the market?
BrickUnderground is kicking off a new weekly feature today linking to the three studio, one-, two- and three-bedrooms that racked up the most pageviews over the past week on NYC apartment search site StreetEasy.com.
Opening your financial kimono to prospective or current neighbors is an unpleasant rite attached to buying or refinancing in a co-op. Moreover, points out Manhattan real estate lawyer Jerome Strelov in a recent post on his newish blog, TalkNewYorkCityRealEstate.com, a lot of board members don't really know how to evaluate a financial statement.
