“Pea Street Yoga is opening in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Northwest Washington, DC on February 1st 2025. Located directly above DC Vegan (1633 P St. NW WDC 20036), the studio is focused on providing high quality instruction and a wide range of offerings – from high energy classes to restorative classes and soundbaths. The aim of the studio is to offer a calming, inclusive space for people of all levels to recharge and have fun while doing it. (more…)
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You’ve probably never read your building’s property management contract all the way through. Most board members haven’t either. If you did, you’d find a carefully defined scope of work — vendors coordinated, maintenance dispatched, assessments collected, reports generated.
What you wouldn’t find: anything about fiduciary duties. Reserve funding strategy. Compliance tracking. Case documentation. Institutional memory. The legal obligations that make your board personally accountable to unit owners.
That’s not an oversight in the contract. It’s the contract. Property management was never designed to cover governance. And yet most boards — paying $10,000 to $18,000 a year for the service — assume it does.
Operations and governance are different jobs. One has a contract. The other has a fiduciary duty.
What your building is paying — and what it’s getting.
What the contract covers. What it doesn’t.
The markup problem most boards don’t know about.
Beyond the management fee, most property management companies mark up vendor invoices — the plumber, the landscaper, the elevator contractor — by 10 to 15 percent before passing the bill to the association. It’s legal. It’s common. And boards have almost no visibility into it. (more…)
“Looking for that perfect gift and supporting local at the same time?! We have made a limited run of our Old Fashioned’s in large format! Available now in house or add one to your pick up order online!” (more…)
“Seen at the Dupont Farmers Market. In case you needed to see a dog in crocs😋”
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“Monumental Sports & Entertainment (MSE) Founder and CEO Ted Leonsis, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, Ward 2 Councilmember Brooke Pinto, and NBA Commissioner Adam Silver today unveiled images of the new exterior design and additional interior renderings for the brand-new Capital One Arena. The group joined with guests in the Grand Pavilion to celebrate the formal start of construction with a ceremonial hammer swing, having received unanimous approval on the development and finance agreements from the D.C. Council and signed by Mayor Bowser earlier this week. The six phases of construction will span three years and will be delivered in time for the 2027-28 NBA and NHL seasons.(more…)
I’m wondering if the community has suggestions for finding a small (very small!) office space for one. I’m specifically not talking about wework or localworks or Regus, but rather something like a small room in a row home or a single room in a small suite in an apartment building. (more…)
