Thanks to A. for sending this Toyota Century!
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“Dear PoPville,
It was 8/31 just before 7pm on the Georgetown Waterfront; I was waiting to get on the Boomerang Pirate Ship cruise, and saw you, a tall, beautiful woman with close-cropped hair dyed a flame-ombre. My heart swelled with anticipation that we could get to spend the next two hours getting to know each other… (more…)
“Cookie and Pepper in Adams Morgan want to know why DC rats get a bad rap.”
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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…)
A few spots are already taking shape: (more…)
This rental is located at 1151 4th Street SW near M St SW. The Craigslist ad says: (more…)
Profs and Pints DC presents: “Artemis II and Beyond,” on how the recent space mission fits into long-term plans for the Moon, with Michael J. Neufeld, retired senior curator for the Space History Department of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.
NASA’s recent, spectacular Artemis II mission is a sign that the United States is serious about sending humans to the Moon again.
Thanks to Leslie for sending: “Proud of these as I’m battling the grasshoppers in Columbia Heights.”
And so concludes, barring an awesome autumn haul or two, Great Garden Haul entries for 2024. Thanks to all who sent in!
Spotted this little guy on his way to school!
***This series features any pets in a backpack/bag/vessel. On metro, or not. Corgi, or not, and often NOT a corgi but the series started with corgis and I can be obstinate…send your finds to [email protected]
1030 15th Street, NW
Thanks to Dave for sending the update that Namak Mandi, traditional Pakistani Cuisine, has opened downtown: (more…)
2001 18th Street, NW
From a press release:
“Acclaimed drinking den Dram & Grain, which recently reopened as a Wednesday-Thursday pop-up inside The Imperial, has just expanded to full weekend service. The 10-year-old bar, known for its award-winning craft cocktails, now serves its experimental grain-infused cocktails, esoteric classics and a new food menu on weekends as well. (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
I have a long tale of identity theft. This issue started on June 2nd, 2024, and still hasn’t been resolved or even followed up on and I don’t know where else to go but to put them on blast on the internet.
On June 2, I got a call from a lender in Newport News, VA, who had warned me that my identity was being used in an attempt to purchase a car in Virginia. That afternoon, I checked my credit report and was made aware of 4 hard inquiries. (more…)