Teri Karush Rogers

Q.  If I go to an open house on my own and sign in under my own name (i.e., without listing a broker, because I’m not working with one), can the seller’s broker stop me from bringing in my own broker later? Or can I bring in my own broker at any time?

On StreetEasy, a commenter purports to spot a trend involving an irrational desire for real estate by financially shaky middle aged women.  This does not go over particularly well. "Do you not know any reasonably successful women of any age who bought a home with their own money?" demands one commenter. "Yes," responds another.

The Daily News' real estate section introduces a neighborhood-centric apartment-dweller-on-the-street feature, Scene & Heard. It kicked off Friday with photographer James Maher  dispatched to Bushwick, Brooklyn to profile passers-by about their real estate situations.

You set your wet rainboots out to dry in the common hallway shared by two apartments, 15 feet apart. The next thing you know the management company calls to tell you to move your footwear inside.  Fair, or unbearably uptight? An UrbanBaby poster wants to know.  Here's a sampling from the 111 comments so far:

Over drinks last spring, an exec at one of the city's better-known real estate PR firms confessed that during the boom, she and her colleagues spent many hours brainstorming the amenities that would make the biggest media splash for a new development: Developers preferred that calculus to the potential effect on unit owners' common charges down the road.

What do you do when Fresh Direct impairs rather than improves your quality of life?  Yesterday on CurbedNY, a downtown apartment dweller wonders how to get Fresh Direct to find another place to park its truck other than in the no-standing zone outside his window four times a day for up to an hour each time.