Comments on: 605 Florida Ave, NW- Owner’s Perspective

By: BobTheBuilder

BobTheBuilder — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:15:50 +0000

One of the contractor’s this guy hired took the money and run, definitely making the contractor a huge ass.

By: guest

guest — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:55:36 +0000

I lived a few houses down on 6th street and was home the night it happened. My house shook, lights flickered, and it sounded like a dumpster full of bricks were being dumped out.

A police car happened to be nearby and the fire department showed up quite quickly.

The next morning they were washing the blood off the road as I was walking to Metro.

By: dc

dc — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:59:48 +0000

I’m surprised he gives a sh*t as to what any of you think.

By: Bernard A. Quarterman, Jr.

Bernard A. Quarterman, Jr. — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:58:36 +0000

Thanks for the support and please forgive the typos.

Dan, please give your readers a chance to see what the house looked like before it was hit. I sent that picture to you. Finally, if you really want to see the all the pictures of the teardown — google \Crash Kills 2 in District, sends SUV in Home.\ There are a total of nine in the wtop’s 2006 article.

By: Mari

Mari — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:06:30 +0000

“Piety is no subsitute for technique. –E. Gilson” is the quote

Followed by “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

Captcha “thieve rookies”

By: Enos

Enos — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:34:48 +0000

It’s good to hear the other side of the story. The truth is likely in the middle however. I must say that I am growing tired of the excuse “I’ve been here since the 80s.”. If the home is a blight, it’s a blight. Doesn’t matter how long you’ve owned the property. There are plenty of people who are ready to improve this city but many properties ate holed up and vacant because people who bought in the 70s and 80s won’t do anything to their properties.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:24:20 +0000

for local dc news, blogs have been blowing journalists out of the effing water. i’ve not seen a dc news story that was not first broken by bloggers in the past 5 years.

have journalists done any follow up on this story? hells no they haven’t.

so bloggers havent substituted for journalists? no shit. and thank god. and least PoP know what neighborhood he is in 99% of the time.

and to you PoP, no, no way in hell i’d have ever gotten this perspective if you hadn’t written about it.

you should get a mayors award for service to the city.

By: Lrob

Lrob — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:14:09 +0000

Note the delay on insurance payments for the crash. Life does not always move as fast as we would like. Cheers for the perseverence.

By: Mari

Mari — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:13:45 +0000

Somewhere near my desk at work (but I’m home so I’m not going to get it right) that virtue is no substitute for talent or actually completing the work to be done. Though I sympathize with the son and it was good to get his side, the problem can be at fault with the contractor, and the house is still a neighborhood problem. Just like several other houses in the neighborhood. Regardless of the good will on the part of the owner. Because between the event that puts the house in disrepair and it getting fixed sh*t happens. Like the house near me where the owner died and I’m guessing the property is still in probate but in the meanwhile the property is a health hazard to current residents. I can feel bad that the adult children have lost a father and need to heal, but this weekend the rear door of the house became unsecured and neighborhood kids were running in and out and if other neighbors didn’t re-secure it, we’d have a drug den, homeless and prostitute problem. There is another house on 6th St NW where the mother died and the son is taking years and years to fix it up. In the meantime, the senior citizen next door has to deal with the rats the property is harboring.

Though it is very unfortunate that the contractor was a thief and the city violated it’s own rules, there is ‘in the meantime’ to deal with, and in the meantime, it’s a sad mess and deserved it’s award as an eyesore and when the permits cease to be valid, it deserved to be taxed higher.

Captcha “business burnside”

By: lanisa

lanisa — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:53:34 +0000

Thanks for sharing. There are two sides to every story. This post does a great job of offering the another perspective.