Welcome to Front Porch

WHO WE ARE

Front Porch is a real estate company that wants you to know stuff. Really.

Prices; procedures; tricks of the trade; we think the MORE you know about real estate, the BETTER a customer you'll be!

As a result, we want to offer you the BEST real estate info anywhere on the web -- for FREE!

So grab a coffee and start reading.

Getting Around

THE TOP TEN QUESTIONS FOR APRIL

What's a "two-room studio"? How do you count rooms?

Copywriting smackdown: who makes this $1.299M Chelsea FSBO sound better, Jennifer or Jeff?

Katie Couric makes $15 million a year, what do her kids' rooms look like?

What's going to happen if the doormen strike?

John G. wants a rent-stabilized apartment in Chelsea for $1,400 a month. How can he find it?

It must be cool to live near the writer of such a witty, informative website. Are there any $610K studios available in your building?

THE TOP TEN QUESTIONS FOR MARCH

How do I get past a co-op board? I've failed before.

Can't I sell my own damn apartment?

What can I afford?

I have ninety minutes. How can I make my home safer?

I have a spare $25 million. What's for sale?

Karen wants to live in the 80s, east of Third, but she must have a condo. Where can she live?

I'm buying my first place. What are real estate agents going to forget to tell me?

I want to read one design article this month, what should it be?

I'm a teacher, married to a cop. How do we snag subsidized housing in Harlem?

This site's a little different than anything I've ever seen. Who are you, anyway?

OUR SALES RELATIONSHIPS

Front Porch is run by Alison Rogers, who is a licensed and ethical real estate agent: in New York with D.G. Neary Realty, 57 West 16th St., NY, NY, 212/633-2727, and in New Jersey with Jordan Baris Inc. Realtors, 150 Mount Pleasant Ave., West Orange, NJ, 973/736-1600.