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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It is a fact of New York City rental life that landlords typically won’t negotiate leases beyond (sometimes) the amount of monthly rent. But don’t assume that just because your landlord insists on some crazy lease provision that he or she can hold you to it.
A dozen years and a boom-bust-and-boom real estate cycle ago, my husband and I bought a two-bedroom prewar co-op on the Upper West Side. Though situated in a modest 10-story brick elevator building, the apartment was, in real estate terms, a triple threat.
First: location, location, location. The ninth-floor apartment was within a few minutes walk of Central Park as well as two major subway lines (including the amazing 1/2/3), Fairway and Citarella, and P.S. 87, where our 5-year-old daughter could enroll in a good (free!) public kindergarten.
Updated October 7, 2015 from a story first posted on July 6, 2010
Switching property managers is a big deal for any co-op or condo building, but it sometimes has to be done.
