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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Those of you who've joined us recently may have missed some of the good stuff we posted here early on. So as we ease on in to the holiday weekend, we decided this would be a good time to replay some of Brick's greatest hits.
Our building is electing a new board tonight, and we are feeling a tad guilty about not running. So, we thought about how we could help, at least in some small way, those who step up (or are pushed up) to the thankless but critical task of running their building.
Heads held low, we solicited advice for this year's rookies from experienced co-op and condo board members around the city. Here is what they had to say:
Q: I live in a co-op I bought in ’98. Every now and then, water leaks from my upstairs neighbor’s bathroom into mine. The super has been up there countless times to try to “re-enact” to see where it is leaking from but has been unsuccessful. I have noticed though that generally the leaking only happens when my neighbor has out of town guests.
- Renovation coaching (StreetEasy)
- NYC property values falling another 40%??? (The Matrix)
- Design to sell (OpenHouse NYC)
- Your Open House: UES 1-bedrooms (NY Observer)
Voting blocs in co-op and condo buildings can coalesce around apartment size (smaller dwellings organize against the outsized influence of bigger units), apartment line (the B line needs a plumbing overhaul, for instance), and sociodemographics (newer, wealthier buyers often want more upgrades than thriftier oldtimers, though the Great Recession may be changing that).
