About Apartment Notes
We help apartment dwellers make informed decisions and create homes that feel personal, practical, and genuinely enjoyable to live in.
Apartment Notes brings together approachable decorating inspiration, apartment-care guidance, useful calculators, and answers to common questions from both tenant and landlord perspectives.
Meet Eric Branston
Eric writes and manages Apartment Notes with help from friends, real estate professionals, and experienced contributors.
The team draws on first-hand experience, professional knowledge, careful research, and feedback from clients and industry contacts. The goal is simple: explain apartment living in clear language and share ideas people can actually use.
If you notice an error or something that deserves clarification, contact Eric at ericbranston[at]apartmentnotes[dot]com.
Useful
Advice should solve a real problem, answer a real question, or help make a room work better.
Approachable
Good design and reliable apartment guidance should be understandable without specialist knowledge.
Considered
We aim for accurate, well-researched information and continually improve articles when better information emerges.
Contributors
Judi Kutner
Judi is a native New Yorker who spent her formative years in suburbia just west of the city. After earning a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, she built and operated JK Financial, a boutique mortgage company in Westchester County, for nearly two decades.
She has contributed to financial and real estate publications and authored hundreds of hours of continuing-education coursework meeting state and ARELLO standards. Her goal is to make the many facets of finance and real estate clearer and more useful to readers.