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Landlords are becoming more understanding--even baking Airbnb language right into the lease--but you've got to be honest with them. Yesterday, Brooklynite Chris Dannen told the tale of how he made $20,000 from renting his spare rooms out on accommodations marketplace Airbnb --that is, before his landlord hit him with a restraining order.

We thought we'd save money by acting as our own leasing agent. That's how we learned--the hard way--what realtors really do. A good commercial realtor is worth his or her weight in gold

We thought we'd save money by acting as our own leasing agent. That's how we learned--the hard way--what realtors really do.

We thought we'd save money by acting as our own leasing agent.

As if bedbugs weren t gross enough already, entomologists have now found that they get ahead by mating with their own mothers, brothers, sisters and fathers.

The matter of mastering a building's energy use, getting maximum performance out of each calorie and electron, is to many people a black art.

Here's a brief recap of a few of the more creative start-ups (and hair styles) from last evenings Demo Day at General Assembly. Matt Brimmer, co-founder of General Assembly , the location of last night's 500 Startups Demo Day in New York, couldn't announce how many people showed up for the event. Or not that he couldn't, but that he wouldn't—Brimmer didn't want to get in trouble with the landlord for clearly exceeding the office's maximum capacity

Sunday, August 07 Corporate partnerships come and go -- unless you go into business with your best friend. To celebrate Friendship Day, we've rounded up our favorite (and most lucrative) friendships. Whether entertainers or tech geeks, these buddies mean business

Norm Brodsky warns that a period of high inflation is coming and offers tips on what you need to do now. To me, it's obvious that we're heading into a period of high inflation. If you aren't old enough to remember doing business in the 1970s—under Ford and Carter—it's hard to appreciate how dramatically the economic environment changes when inflation rises above, say, 6 or 7 percent a year

My desk used to have a very large pile of envelopes stacked in the corner. It included notices from various agencies in the states in which our employees live, pitches from would-be business partners, personal correspondence, and too many other things to list. Under the desk was a box, which contained all of the stuff that had been crowded off my desk