Real LI

The East Hampton Star reports that one code enforcement officer is surprised that people from "Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens pay so much money and spend so much time battling traffic 'to share quarters in a basement with people they don’t know.'" Apparently, her town, Southampton, has a problem on its hands. So Southampton and neighboring East Hampton town are reading Internet and classified ads to find where the houses will be -- and then monitor them. "Southampton also tracks trouble spots," the paper reports. “There are properties with repeat problems." Southampton keeps "a list of the top 100" problem properties" that officers will start visiting when the season begins.