Letters to the Summer TenantsRenting to the wrong people.

As the summer heat approaches its hellish apogee, thousands will flee their jobs for vacation spots near the ocean. Six years ago, Jodie T. Allen's "self-martyred landlord" wrote to the destructive summer tenants who had just left her house: "I did find a minute to relax in a rocker on the porch this morning, to watch the seabirds and admire what's left of the garden."

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