Virginia K. Smith

Just this morning we wrote about the virtues (and pitfalls) of apartment "love letters"—the missives that prospective buyers send to sellers to convince them they're the perfect fit to take over the apartment (and should therefore win out in a bidding war). Apparently, some apartment hunters are pulling out this tactic long before bidding even starts: yesterday, a blogger for F'd In Park Slope posted images of a postcard she'd received from two neighbors, Mark and Jessie, beseeching area homeowners to consider selling to a nice, young couple instead of an anonymous LLC.

Updated 4:39 p.m. with a comment from Steven Sladkus, the landlord's attorney: File this under problems we wouldn't mind facing: a West Village resident is fielding a lawsuit from his new landlord over the validity of his double-take-inducing lease, which spans 50 years and cost just $10 a month, the New York Post reports. Yes, those are the correct amounts of zeros.

We've all had to deal with pungent neighbors from time to time—the smell of a fried fish dinner here, a wet dog in the hallway there—but we recently heard from a co-op shareholder with next-level fume issues.