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:
Transparency and accountability are the pillars of power for New York’s apartment dwellers and the theme of this year’s seven real-estate entries in The NYC BigApps Competition. Now’s your chance to signal which of the real-estate contestants are doing the job effectively.
The city's bed bug epidemic has certainly engendered its share of incompetent and/or shady exterminators peddling expensive "treatments" that don't work. But an NBC report on Friday (above) pushes the bed bug grifter envelope from con artist to crook: A man is wanted for burglarizing five Brooklyn apartments this year after showing up unannounced and claiming to be a bed bug exterminator.
Q. What are your options if the appraisal comes in too low when you’re in contract to buy an apartment? I can’t get the mortgage I need and the seller won’t budge on the price. Should I ask for a new appraisal?
A. Many banks won’t revisit their appraisal findings, say ourexperts, but if you’ve got evidence showing that the appraisal is out of touch with reality, you should certainly try asking the bank to review the appraisal and request either an updated appraisal or an entirely new one.
On Brownstoner.com, a Brooklynite is steamed over the 17 piles of dog poop he encountered while walking down his block yesterday: "It appears that NO ONE cleans up after their dog, leaving it to me - a non-dog owner - to clean up huge piles of mess on an almost every day basis. I am at my wit's end. I called 311 several times to file complaints and asked for the Pooper Scooper signs to post, only to be told they no longer give them out."
This weekend BrickUnderground found itself at the epicenter of a viral bed bug epidemic that began when the entertaining Brooklyn rant blog F*cked in Park Slope wrote about
“New York used to be known as a well-built city, but the last construction boom had so many problems, it’s really like being in Florida,” assistant New York State attorney General Marissa Piesman said last night at a forum for frustrated co-op and condo owners.
