“Dear PoPville,
Wondering if anyone else in DC has run into this issue with their property management. My building (managed by JBG Smith) uses a third party biller to charge for utilities called Conservice. The third party biller is disclosed in the lease, however, the fees they charge are not – I was charged (more…)
Thanks to Ben for sending: “Emergency Rally at Supreme Court at 5 PM Today (Friday Aug 27th)”
From the SCOTUSblog:
“The Supreme Court lifts the federal eviction moratorium. In an unsigned 8-page opinion (with the three liberals dissenting), SCOTUS sides with a group of landlords who argued that the CDC lacked the authority to bar evictions during the pandemic.”
“Dear PoPville,
I just moved into a new building a month ago and for the past few weeks (but amped up a LOT this week) there has been constant construction on a new restaurant going into the building on the first floor right next door.
The construction starts before 8am every day and wakes me up and it’s difficult to work from home (which my company does full time still) as it’s near constant drilling and banging. I live on the third floor but it sounds like it’s right next to me it’s so loud. (more…)
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“Dear PoPville,
My apartment building just announced that they would start shutting off our water supply between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. twice a week until “the plumbing work has been completed.” I fear that this will take weeks if not months! (more…)
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“Dear PoPville,
I live in a privately owned condo unit (I rent from the landlord). For about 48 hours now there has been no hot water.
I promptly informed the landlord of the issue and he let me know he would investigate the issue right away. About 24 hours later he sent us an email from the building manager (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
I’m in a situation where the air conditioning in my apartment has been persistently broken dating back to last summer. The first time around I was naive as they proposed some quick fixes every few weeks, which never worked, but this time around i’m losing my mind. (more…)
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“Dear PoPville,
When we moved into our last home we provided our landlord with all the information to transfer DC Water over to our new account. They never did that and told us not to worry about it (which we have in writing). We interpreted that as, we aren’t paying for water. We never received a bill from them so we assumed that was also their interpretation. Turns out their interpretation was the bill would just stay in their name and they would bill us. Fast forward 12 months and now they’re charging us $1,200 for 12 months of water bills. (more…)
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“Dear PoPville,
Have you heard anything about when DC apartments can start increasing rent again? I know there was a rent freeze during the pandemic but I’m just wondering if you’ve heard when that may be lifted. My apartment is already emailing me about rent increases but I haven’t heard or seen anything from DC about the freeze stopping. Thanks!!”
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“Dear PoPville,
Our condo landlord notified us they would not be willing to extend the lease beyond the current term (which ends in 75 days). We will have rented for 18 months at termination, have never missed (or been late on payment), nor had any issues. Is this allowable? The landlord did not specify a reason for asking us to leave. I understand there are few exceptions for landlords to ask tenants to leave. Should we ask for a reason?
Appreciate the help in advance.”
Lukas reminds us that some laws come from a good place but in reality…