Teri Karush Rogers

Did you know that when it snows, your building's roof has to be shoveled too? "If the snow is very heavy, the roof could even collapse, and the drains can get iced, and the water can penetrate and melt everywhere," a roofing specialist tells co-op and condo trade pub The Cooperator in an everything-you-need-to-know about your roof story in the November issue (not yet online).

Q.  If I go to an open house on my own and sign in under my own name (i.e., without listing a broker, because I’m not working with one), can the seller’s broker stop me from bringing in my own broker later? Or can I bring in my own broker at any time?

On StreetEasy, a commenter purports to spot a trend involving an irrational desire for real estate by financially shaky middle aged women.  This does not go over particularly well. "Do you not know any reasonably successful women of any age who bought a home with their own money?" demands one commenter. "Yes," responds another.

The Daily News' real estate section introduces a neighborhood-centric apartment-dweller-on-the-street feature, Scene & Heard. It kicked off Friday with photographer James Maher  dispatched to Bushwick, Brooklyn to profile passers-by about their real estate situations.

You set your wet rainboots out to dry in the common hallway shared by two apartments, 15 feet apart. The next thing you know the management company calls to tell you to move your footwear inside.  Fair, or unbearably uptight? An UrbanBaby poster wants to know.  Here's a sampling from the 111 comments so far:

Over drinks last spring, an exec at one of the city's better-known real estate PR firms confessed that during the boom, she and her colleagues spent many hours brainstorming the amenities that would make the biggest media splash for a new development: Developers preferred that calculus to the potential effect on unit owners' common charges down the road.