Teri Karush Rogers

We continue BrickUnderground's look back over 2010, rounding up some our favorite posts about buying & selling real estate in Manhattan.  From timing the building to how to spin a board interview to how the doorman could be sabotaging your sale, read all about it right here:

Over on UrbanBaby.com, an apartment dweller’s drycleaning has gone missing after the concierge signed for it.  She has posted  a “lost dry cleaning” alert near the mailboxes and in the garbage room on all 26 floors, “which ticked off the concierges because now everyone knows they are not as efficient/good as they say they are (especially around holiday tip time).”

Among the biggest joys of vertical living is a fairly hassle-free lifestyle, at least compared to being shackled to a house. But the livin’ can be so easy that it's also easy to become blasé about security and other safety issues.  That bubbleboy mentality can be a problem during the holidays, when everything from a tsunami of deliveries to a winter-vacation-exodus can compromise the delicate ecosystem of your safety zone.

Good question. Brick Underground has previously recommended that you not ask the super or resident manager to hand out cash tips, as some staff say they distrust this method. Another tip is to put a family photo into the envelope to help connect your face to your generosity.  So what to do?  Though cash is preferred, you could combat the sticky fingers risk by writing a check and leave it with the super.

From a seasonal perspective, the New York City rental market tends to heat up with the mercury and hibernate in the cold.

“The summer and fall are times of new beginnings, with people starting jobs, starting school, and getting their kids into school moving in the summer,” observes Gus Waite, a managing director and rental broker at BondNY fond of referring to the rental market as "a business of dealing with people hookin' up, movin' up or breakin' up."