Thanks to Phoebe for sending these “two vintage VW Bugs seen in different areas of ward 4.” (more…)
Thanks to Sara for sending:
“Ducks spotted near 21st and Pennsylvania. Is this normal? Had to chase them out of the street into the park before cars came!”
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“Pierogi – recently adopted and living in Cleveland Park!”
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The reality
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…)
1800 14th Street, NW
Tom asks:
“can #doimoi or #dc clean the glass, nails in the #bikelane from the November truck 🔥 ? Sorry for the fire – (it was between Halloween and Thanksgiving week) – the remnants are a safety #hazard when we have to 🚲 into traffic to miss them.”
Another sends more photos: (more…)
This rental is located at 1111 Columbia Rd NW near 11th St NW. The Craigslist ad says: (more…)
DMV’s rising indie rock/pop band, the Leclaires will perform new songs from their upcoming album in June in their first show of 2026 joining touring artist, Vanna Pacella and Hello June!
photo by Wayan Vota
“Dear PoPville,
Wondering if the PoPulace can weigh in on the best car detailing that comes to you?
I’ll take recs on shops where you bring your car in too though, as a backup.”
Thanks to Kim for sending this curious letter from Washington Gas: (more…)
Thanks to a reader for passing on the big Jersey Mike’s news:
“Local CP ANC commissioners Janell Pagats and Tammy Gordon spotted it” (more…)
1506 19th Street, NW
From an email:
“Bar Extraordinaires, Will Patton and Devin Kennedy, are thrilled to announce the opening date for their new cocktail haven, Press Club. Located in the Historic Dupont Circle neighborhood, (more…)
Thanks to Sarhang for sending these amazing photos from Alexandria: (more…)