“Cora from Logan Circle”
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“17th near H Street, NW. It’s the McDonald’s by the White House and the shops next door.”
Thanks to Aaron for sending: “These are the first businesses I see boarding-up, presumably for big day.”
Anyone else spot businesses boarding up windows? If so, where do you see it?
This rental is located at 1840 6th Street NW. The Craigslist ad says: (more…)
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.
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…)
photo by Tim Brown
From DDOT:
“Today, The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) announced the launch of the 2024-2025 tree planting season with plans to plant several thousand trees across the District to replace those dead or diseased as well as to increase the District’s tree canopy. (more…)
photo by Phil
Allison with the PSA:
“I did not know that in the year of our lord 2024 I would need to ask you to remind people that especially when we are low on rain IT IS A VERY BAD IDEA TO THROW CIGARETTE BUTTS INTO THE WOODS IN ROCK CREEK PARK“
Join Mindful Movement DC this Memorial Day Weekend for a 3 night yoga retreat to rebalance strength & softness in our lives! During this weekend in the woods, we will create a sacred space to nourish and embrace our whole selves through yoga, meditation, journaling, time in nature, and community building.
Event led by:
“Dear PoPville,
So Little Chicken charged me a 10% “kiosk fee” to use the touchpad and place a to go order. What?! Plus another 4% “service fee”?! (more…)
“This is Yoshi. He’d like to be considered for the costume contest.”
and
“Scooter girl here, coming at you a few years later.
Dressed up as the DC pandas Qing Bao and Bao Li delivered from China this month!” (more…)
Thanks to Lucas for sending: “I caught this hawk hunting squirrels on shepherd street NW in Petworth! Those scared squirrels were barking up a storm!”
If you spot a hawk, any interesting wildlife or celebrity skateboarder Tony Hawk, and get a good photo please send in an email where you spotted them to [email protected]. Thanks! Hawks around Town is made possible by a generous grant from the Ben and Sylvia Gardner foundation.
Friends, Washingtontonians, countrymen, lend me your ears – irony is not dead.
I come to bury Taffer’s, not to praise it.
The evil that reality tv proclaimed experts do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their draft menus;
So let it be with Taffer’s. The noble Commentariat
Hath told you Taffer’s was ambitious…
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did mock them once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to nearby fast casual cantinas
My heart is in the coffin there at this prime retail/restaurant space,
And I must pause till someone new takes it over.
Thanks to MML for sending to us yesterday, now that I’ve had time to digest the news, without further ado:
“Learned yesterday that Taffer’s is closing. We had reservations for after the Caps game Saturday and received this email yesterday.” (more…)
Thanks to AB for sending:
“The Goodwill thrift store will be moving from its current S Dakota Ave location to Ivy City, in the old Nike store location.”
Current location closing October 31st, stay tuned for an Ivy City opening date!