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:
If you're looking to buy place in a doorman building right now, you may want to think condo, suggests broker-blogger Malcolm Carter after performing some number-crunching gymnastics. Examining active listings in neighborhoods that represent the "core" of Manhattan (Upper East Side, Upper West Side, Midtown East and Midtown West), he finds that fully 86% of buildings with apartments for sale have doormen and/or concierges.
If you are a renter attempting to buy a NYC co-op or condo--or sometimes even if you are just trying to rent another apartment--you will be asked for a letter of recommendation from your previous landlord.
So what makes a good letter—and what do you do if you have a bad relationship with your landlord?
From a co-op and condo board’s perspective, the three key phrases to remember are “tenant in good standing,” “always pays the rent on time,” and “excellent tenant,” says Deanna Kory, a real estate broker at Corcoran.
BrickUnderground's post yesterday on how not to be a real estate agent prompted Michael DeRosa of Halstead Property to lobby for a sequel on How Not to Be an Obnoxious Buyer. We asked him for some tips, and he obliged:
For views, bragging rights, resale values and (sometimes) privacy, living wayyyy up in a 30, 50, or 60-story NYC high rise is hard to beat. But it also comes with a eclectic set of challenges.
A recent NY Times story, for instance, revealed the cell-phone-signal struggles suffered by some uber-high-rise dwellers. Here are some other unexpected complications that can crop up in extreme vertical living:
