3146 Mount Pleasant Street, NW
Thanks to Sam and Christian for sending: “Streets Market Signage Up in Mount Pleasant.” (more…)
A reader reports around 11:50pm Monday night: (more…)
3433 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Thai Love opened in the former St. Arnold’s Mussel Bar spot almost exactly a year ago last October. Now Isaan Thai Classic has entered the chat! (more…)
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…)
photo by Jeanette.Cook
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To celebrate DC native Haili Blassingame’s debut novel, THEY ALL FALL IN LOVE AT THE END, Lost City Books is throwing a launch party themed around messy love stories. Haili, and a crew of writers she has assembled, will read excerpts from their work, but there will also be audience participation in the form of anonymously submitting messy dating stories. It’s going to be a night of laughter, of gasps, of books, of great company. Refreshments will be available. We can’t wait to see you there!
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Update from the National Zoo:
“The Zoo will be closed to the public tomorrow, Oct. 15. For the safety of the pandas and staff”
CNN reports:
“Two giant pandas are on their way from China to Washington’s National Zoo, kicking off a much-awaited return of the beloved bears to the American capital.
Bao Li and Qing Bao, both three years old, left the giant panda research base in Dujiangyan, a city near the bears’ native habitat in the mountains of southwest China, on Monday night local time.” (more…)
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UNIQLO opened with great fanfare here in Union Station back in 2017. Thanks to all who messaged us about the abrupt closure: (more…)
Thanks to Jodi and many ohters for sending earlier today (Sunday)”
“Helicopter very very low hovering between buildings over the MBT by Union Market” (more…)
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Update: “It seems like it’s a company that does aerial reviews of electrical infrastructure.”
Thanks to readers for sending around 2:30pm: “Helicopter flying low Union Market.” (more…)
637 Pennsylvania Ave, SE
Thanks to G. for sending: “Another 7-11 down. 600 block of Pennsylvania SE. that’s three in cap hill!”
The other two 7-Elevens that have closed are at the one at 1501 Independence Ave, SE and the other one at 429 8th Street, SE on Barracks Row.
Starting to feel like echoes of Au Bon Pain around here…
Updates when we learn who takes over the spaces.