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.
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In the print edition of its January issue, Habitat Magazine publishes the results of its survey of 49 NYC property management firms (representing 44% of New York’s co-op/condo stock) on issues ranging from average maintenances increases, to average fees for sublet applications, to most common forms of communication with residents.
BrickUnderground eyeballed the results. Here are the highlights:
Q. I'm currently negotiating renovations with my landlord for a larger apartment that I'll be moving into shortly. The previous tenant lived there for 40 (!!!) years and the floors look like wet cardboard. I'd like the landlord to pay to refinish the floors but he cites the 80% carpet "rule," claiming that the floors will be substantially covered by carpet, it's not a big deal. My question has two parts:
If you're looking for a roommate in lower Manhattan or in Brooklyn west of Prospect Park, things are about to get a little easier. Roommates Wanted NYC (slogan: "no more spam, no more scams, no more brokers. FREEDOM.") just expanded its roster of monthly $5 roommate-finding mixers to two new venues: the West Village (Slaughtered Lamb Pub from 7-9pm on the second Monday of every month) and Park Slope (Bar Reis, 2nd Tuesday of every month, 7-9 pm).
Our apartment-dwelling hearts beat a little faster upon reading Sunday's NY Times story about a reverse-spin on washer-dryer bans: "Older buildings--even prewars--are relaxing longtime bans to keep residents happy and to avoid scaring off buyers," writes Times' contributor C.J. Hughes.
