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The Business of space: study abroad alumna Teressa Alessandro.

Teresa Alessandro, who is from White Plains, New York, spent the summer of 2012 studying abroad at JCU. She holds a B.B.A. in International Business and Italian from Iona College in New York. She is currently a New York State-Licensed Real Estate Broker in Manhattan. 

3 benefits of buying a NYC home as an LLC.

LLCs, or hybrid companies that can protect owners from legal issues and help with tax abatements, are a popular strategy that many homeowners take when buying in NYC. LLC buyers can easily go through the purchasing process with condos in particular.

The buyer´s benefit of purchasing a combined apartment.

When it comes to valuing combined apartments, President and CEO Jonathan Miller of appraisal firm Miller Samuel believes in the saying “1 + 1 = 2.5.” Wholesale pricing of today’s new developments doesn’t exist.

How to conduct a virtual house hunt that´s as good as the real thing.

Attorneys are working to draft necessary legal language, including relevant force majeure clauses, into the purchase contracts to protect the buyer," says Teresa Alessandro, licensed real estate salesperson at New York's Elegran. A force majeure clause allows a party to back out of a contract under specified circumstances that cannot be controlled (such as a pandemic).

My secret? I navigate around the city on my Vespa, scouting out new developments, neighborhood pop-ups, and stopping to take in the culture along the way. I was featured On Episode 16 of “Meet the Riders” through Vespa of Brooklyn’s channel.