Virginia K. Smith

If a listing looks to good to be true, check the fine print; the pictures may be Photoshopped (NYDN)

Don't give up part of your security deposit for breaking a rule that's not in your lease (NYT)

We all get worried about our property getting damaged during a move--but what about losing absolutely everything you own? 

Ever wonder what it's really like to find a NYC apartment? One Thrillist editor is liveblogging his apartment search and... he has our sympathies (Thrillist)

These fancy couches are all on sale — just in time for the new fall TV season to begin (Apartment Therapy)

We've all had neighbors that seem a little off, and whom we side-eye in the hallway. But most of them aren't murderous, or at least we don't think they are, let alone catch them in the act.

In Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 classic Rear Window—maybe the ultimate lesson in "good fences making good neighbors"—temporarily wheelchair-bound photographer L.B. Jeffries (played by Jimmy Stewart) passes the time looking out from, yes, a rear window onto his apartment complex's shared terrace, and eventually, into his neighbors' homes.