Teri Karush Rogers

a part ment al - adj. [uh-pahrt-MENT-al] Of or pertaining to the mind that cannot stop thinking about apartments: mental apartment disorder.

Suzie had gone through eight brokers, ten contractors and five designers.  As she looked up at her husband over dinner and realized she hadn't heard a word he said because she was contemplating unfinished versus prefinished floors, she knew it was time to face facts: She had gone apartmental.  

Feel free to let loose in bed this Valentine's Day if you can bear the awkward morning-after elevator ride: Our loud neighbor-sex survey found that although two-thirds of apartment dwellers overheard a neighbor having sex and more than half wished they hadn't, almost none complained.

However, you may still want to muzzle your moans if you find it creepy that nearly a fifth of those we surveyed become aroused by their neighbors' mating sounds.

Nationally speaking, the top five places to look for love in an apartment building are the pool, the laundry room, common-area social fuctions, parking lots and onsite gyms, according to a new poll by Apartments.com, the apartment rental site.

This is bad news for most of our single friends.  New York City's dearth of Loveboat-style “apartment communities” pretty much restricts same-building cruising to the laundry room and in some cases the building gym.

Q. My co-op building owns a one-bedroom apartment off the lobby that has always been rented to a private individual.  It was recently vacated, and the board believes it can make more money renting to a therapist than to another regular tenant.

I have concerns about this option, as I do not like the idea of non-resident and possibly mentally unbalanced people having access to the rest of the building.  We do not even  have a doorman who can keep an eye out and make sure that patients exit as they should.  

In a case with implications for those who buy and sell secondhand-smoke-filled apartments in New York, a Boston jury is expected to decide a first-of-its-kind secondhand smoke lawsuit against a Massachusetts real estate broker today.