Virginia K. Smith

Finally, your prayers for a map of the city's dog poop-related complaints have been answered (The Economist via BKMag)

What to do about the restaurant downstairs that's stinking up your apartment (NYT)

Sanity-saving  tricks for labeling your boxes the next time you move (Apartment Therapy)

Now this is how you renovate an aging 1920s-style bathroom (Sweeten)

How to avoid any disasters when you sublet your place (Apartment Therapy)

This week, we venture outside NYC to check out the real estate in a buzzed-about short film, The Listing. Because admit it: You've spent at lease one lazy afternoon, eyeing your dwindling bank account and cruising dirt cheap listings in Detroit, fantasizing about snapping up your own rambling fixer-upper for the same amount you pay in rent every month. But what if that house was ... haunted?!