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Thanks!...to whomever is creating the cards with the blog address and the posters with the tear off blog address. It's a clever idea. I've been trying to keep things low key here, but perhaps it's time to spread the word a bit.

PS. I have my suspicions.

Tenants Association Meeting

Tenants association meeting December 1st at 7:00pm in the pub. Please attend and bring your ideas with you.
Thanks!

Has your lease been handled properly?

Have you received your lease? Has it been signed by anyone in management? Were combat or hurt feelings involved in receiving it?  How many times did you have to ask?

What's the deal with the lease irregularities here? I wonder if any LAWS have been broken by this weird "policy." Are there any lawyers in the building with expertise in this matter? I sure am curious.

Count those beans again please.

Has the financial department of the rental office ever fouled up your account?

This seems to be a reoccurring theme that I am hearing about A LOT! In this economy, this really hits to the heart of some of the dysfunction here at JCY. There are people struggling to make it from month to month (and some who are not) and fouling up their account is just unacceptable. IOW... don't mess with my money homey!!

It is human to make mistakes occasionally, yet my mail tells me that this happens not infrequently.

Tell me about your experiences with this matter.

We really need a gas station around here

Wouldn't it be nice if we had a convenient gas station in the area? Perhaps this is  concern that is already being addressed or is this something we could bring up with our new ANC representative?

I like the idea of one being built across from the McDonalds. No BP though, please

What type of information would you like to see on this blog?

I would like to make this blog a more effective and informative tool for you. What type of information would you like to see posted here, or is the blog doing what you would like it to do?
Thanks!
TJ

Please attend the next meeting

We don't appear to be making much headway in our desire to have our concerns about our building addressed. It is imperative that we all work together to make our voices heard. Don't feel like others will do it for you. Attend the next meeting and let's put some wind in our sails!
The next meeting is tentatively set for December 1st at 7:00pm in the Pub.

Stay tuned for further confirmation of this date.

Touch Football, Dodgeball, or Volleyball anyone?

Hello,

My name is Robert Nowell (I am also a resident of the Jefferson), and I am the General Manager of ZogSportsDC, a charity-focused, co-ed, social sports league for young professionals in DC.  Since 2002, we have raised almost $1 million for charity.  We had a successful first season this fall in the DC area with 14 touch football and 7 dodgeball teams – that’s over 300 people participating in our first season!  We are continuing this winter with Touch Football, Dodgeball, and Volleyball! 

Need to see us in action first?  We’d love to have you join us the next time we play Touch Football or Dodgeball (we have a few dates left this season).  As a sign of our appreciation, we will give you a complimentary registration to one of our winter sports leagues. 

Why Play ZogSports

• Sports – the easiest way to play team sports with competitive levels for everyone
• Social – the best way to meet new people and hang with your friends - happy hours organized after every game
• Participation – Sign up as an individual, small group or full team.  Everyone can play
• Charity – “Play For Your Cause” and raise money for your charity with on and off the field awards (Top 2 Teams in each division + off the field awards including “Best Team Name” & “Best Drinking Team”)
• Organization – Full time, dedicated staff.  They pride themselves on organization.  It may not be why people join, but it’s why our members keep coming back.

About ZogSports

ZogSports is a co-ed, social sports league that facilitates social awareness among young professionals.  ZogSports organizes sports leagues (touch football and dodgeball to start, followed by volleyball, soccer, basketball, softball, etc.), social events and volunteer opportunities for people in their 20s and 30s.  ZogSports donates a portion of all proceeds to charity and helps participants Play For Your CauseTM through charitable donations to winning teams’ charities of choice.  In eight+ years, ZogSports has about 80,000 people participating in their activities and has donated approximately $1,000,000 to charity.

Robert Herzog conceived ZogSports after his close call on 9/11.  Robert decided to build on the tremendous charity and social action he witnessed post 9/11 and bring people together in New York.  Through ZogSports’ athletic, social and social action opportunities, we encourage young professionals to maintain perspective and a more balanced lifestyle by having fun while also giving something back to the community.

 

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means.

Like a lot of things in this building, the state of the elevator near the front of the building is shrouded in mystery. Even as tenants try to organize, despite repeated attempts to thwart it, explanation about the protracted amount of time it has taken to repair the elevator remains elusive.

Why is this? Why must tenants be frustrated over and over in their attempts to get a straight answer to a simple question from anyone connected to the building?  Is management keeping state secrets?

It is rumored that there are cameras being installed into the elevators. If this is true, what exactly is the point? Is there some problem in the elevators that requires monitoring? Wouldn’t cameras be better utilized outside the garage entrance? The front doors? The doors into the building from the garage? The stairways? The roof?

These, to me, seem to be positions where the safety of the residency is in mind, yet a camera in the elevators sounds more like a move to keep an eye on the tenant’s. Now, I could understand an argument being made for safety in the elevators if there were a number of altercations, but I’m not aware of an ongoing problem. Is there something we don’t know?

It has been noticed by a few tenants that the permit for the elevator has been expired for some time. Does this have anything to do with why they have been inoperable? If so, why hasn’t it been addressed by management to tenants?

Whatever the reason, this is a continuance of the same contemptible behavior by management against the residents of this building where they refuse to keep us in the loop about things that directly concern us.

A handful of tenants met recently in an attempt to form a tenant association. A number of fliers were posted in prominent places around the building, but they were repeatedly removed. If one were inclined to engage in such things, this could be a game played by two.

There will be subsequent meetings that I will keep you apprised of. Please step up and do your part to organize with your neighbors to give us all a voice. Attend the next meeting.

A worthy cause

Dear Axiom and Jefferson residents, 

I am writing this e-mail to draw your attention to an important matter. I appreciate any and all of your support. I am reaching out  in regards to a cleaning lady who works in the building. Her name is Marisol. She has been working cleaning this building since the Axiom opened its doors. She is an extremely hard worker from El Salvador. Marisol fractured her arm two weeks ago. In the interim she had a replacement. Marisol is contracted through a company called Beltway, so she in not a Greystar Axiom employee. When she came to return to work after her arm had somewhat healed she was fired by the new Property Manager, Nicole Williams. Marisol's contract company notified her that the Axiom did not want her to return. She was given no explanation and because her English is not good she could not fight or defend herself. She called me for help. I went down this Monday to the leasing office demanding some answers. I was told it was none of my business and this was a business management decision. I argued that you cannot just fire somebody without a just reason. I have contacted the contract company Beltway, and they have had more compassion. I spoke with the owner and manager there. He said they are trying to place Marisol somewhere else, but that currently nothing is available and the soonest may not be until December. Marisol has hospital bills to pay for from her injured arm, and now has zero income. She is in a very bad situation. I wanted to bring this matter up first and foremost to the community and to ask for your support. I have been in contact with Talib, as he has been an instrumental leader in helping to regulate and inform us on so many issues. Taib and I will continue to work and obviously fight hard on this matter. 

I will be doing everything I can on my part following up with Beltway to see if Marisol can and will be placed somewhere else sooner than later. In the meantime here's what you can do to help:

If you would like to hire Marisol and have your apartment cleaned please contact me and I can set that up for you. She would do an excellent job and obviously this would help her to get by for the time being. Also, I am accepting any donation you may have to help her out. No donation is too small. You may email me at vanessa.camozzi@gmail.com or drop it in an envelope at my door, or at the front desk if you wish. Please just call or e-mail me and let me know so that I can look out for it. Thank you all very much. Please do not hesitate to contact me. I know that we are all extremely busy with our personal lives, but I ask for your  compassion and to really help someone in serious need.

Apartment Tips #1

You may know this already, but I just discovered that the drain in the tub unscrews for removal! Duh!! This makes for much easier cleaning of the tub drain area.

If you have any tips or discoveries about the apartments or the building, please feel free to share them here.

Results from the Tenants Meeting

Please pardon the delay in posting any information about what happened at the tenants meeting.  I've had family in town since the meeting and am only now taking the time to write something.  I don't intend this post to be "minutes" of the meeting - rather, I just want to give folks a sense of how it went and what's happening now.

 

We had discussions both about what works well and doesn't work so well right now in the building.  From the 14 folks in the meeting, there was definitely both positive and negative feedback - for example, people had great things to say about maintenance in their individual apartments, but were disappointed in general maintenance items in the building, for example the elevators.  We really looked at what is needed moving forward - and the one thing that stood out is improved communication between tenants and management.

 

The first obvious step to support that intention is to open up the dialogue in a meeting with both tenants and management included, so that everyone can hear everyone else's concerns, and we can all work together to come up with solutions that make sense.  I will be working with Melanie this coming week to set that up!

Rivers

Garber wins ANC 6D07 post

David Garber beat 12-year incumbent Robert Siegel for the ANC 6D07 seat. 

David Garber 65.61% (unseating incumbent Bob Siegel 332 votes to 171 votes)

More on the Capitol Hill elections

For the kids: Magical Magnets

Families are invited to join the staff of the U.S. Navy Museum as we explore magnetism. Children will learn how catapults on aircraft carriers work and about the Navy’s transition steam catapult systems to electromagnetic systems. Each child is invited to build a magnetically levitating car and race it down a special magnetic track in the Museum!

Date: Sat, November 6th 2010

Time: 1-2:30

Cost:  FREE

U.S. Navy Museum 

805 Kidder Breese SE 

Washington, DC 20374

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Elevator Blues

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Yet another elevator is out. 2 week ago I missed a bus and was late to a meeting because the elevator took to long to get to my floor, and when it finally got there the elevator was packed and we proceeded to continue to stop at every floor. I witnessed a dog pee at the elevator waiting for the elevator - the owner was ticked off that the elevator took nearly 4 minutes to come only to have to turn around and go home so he could come back and clean up the mess...and wait another 4 minutes for the elevator. What gives? I'd like to see this elevator situation addressed immediately. With expired elevator licenses and the fact they they're breaking down and taking FOREVER to be fixed is ridiculous. What is management doing to fix the problem with the elevators and now with the inconvenienced tenants??

Tomorrow, Wednesday November 3rd at 7:00pm

Tenants Meeting Tomorrow!

Save The Date!!

Don't forget.
The first tenants meeting will be held Wednesday the 3rd at 7:00pm in the Clubroom