Virginia K. Smith

A woman is rightly suing after finding a hidden camera in the bedroom of her California Airbnb (Refinery 29)

Today in oddball lawsuits: a condo board allegedly took revenge on a resident by blocking their views with dead plants (NYP)

If you've been Airbnb-ing your New York rental apartment on the sly, it might be time to quit while you're ahead. One Midtown landlord is suing their tenant to the tune of $300,000 after she allegedly repeatedly rented out her apartment on Airbnb and other short-term rental sites, racking up tens of thousands of dollars in fines for the building, the New York Daily News reports.

Q: My co-op maintenance bills keep rising pretty consistently every month. Is there any way for me to find out why?

Grey walls, and more decor trends that'll be big in the coming year (Refinery 29)

What to do if you wind up on the dreaded tenant blacklist (NYT)

Usually, when we think about the wealthy all-cash buyer swooping in on a real estate deal, it's a shadowy foreign millionaire (or billionaire) we have in mind. But, as  The Real Deal recently reported, wealthy New Yorkers have found a way to get around the all-cash conundrum and stay competitive: taking out loans against their sizeable stock portfolios.