Teri Karush Rogers

At the NYC Real Estate Expo last fall, a lawyer-turned-private-investigator gave one of the more intriguingly-titled seminars. 

In “Why Google is Never Enough,” Philip Segal explained how investigative lawyers (versus standard issue private detectives) can be helpful, for example, to creditors deciding whether it’s worth going after the personal assets of a developer whose project has defaulted, or whether the pickings are too slim to justify the legal costs.

Over on UrbanBaby.com, the nuances of nannies and snow days are being hotly debated. Is it okay to require your nanny to come to work, especially if you have to go to work?  If she can’t come in, do you pay her, dock her pay, or count as a sick day?  Is it okay to demand that she sleep over the night before a storm, or is that like taking your nanny hostage?  

Even if you have the money, the time, and the willpower to gut-renovate the co-op apartment you’re thinking of buying, you may be thwarted by a renovation-hostile co-op board.  But how do you tell before you buy?

Stop the bed bug presses. Two of the world's most revered bed bug experts--New York entomologist Louis Sorkin and London-based researcher and pest management expert David Cain--will appear on the same panel next week at the Museum of the City of New York.    

It isn’t always easy going green.  Habits are habit-forming after all, so we sometimes need a symbiotic nudge to act according to our higher instincts.   Which is why we think this offer will appeal to city dwellers with green in their hearts and heaps of clothing to be drycleaned.