Where did I say it was the scooters fault? I said “absolutely dangerous to ride them around DC streets.” DC streets include cars, trucks, and busses that aren’t going anywhere, which is obviously one of the major factors that makes riding scooters on shared streets so dangerous.

I’m shocked we don’t hear more of these type of deaths. The scooters are fun but seem like absolute death traps. Road one once and had a blast, but just seemed absolutely dangerous to ride them around DC streets.

I lived in a rent controlled building in NE managed by a company listed in this article and am almost positive they were taking advantage of this program in the building I was in from 2018-2020. The building was recently renovated when I moved in, although I quickly learned that the renovations were done in a very sloppy manner.

After a couple of years, things really started to fall apart and tenants that moved in after renovations quickly moved out. I stuck it out through the end of 2020 when I noticed the type of tenant moving into the building started to rapidly change. A chain smoking drug user moved into the apartment across from mine and rapidly destroyed the apartment. Her behavior was so erratic that I called the social work crisis line a couple of times after she spent hours running up and down the hallway without any apparent purpose.

Anyways, by the time I gave notice, the management company was so eager for me to move out that the property manager told me to not worry about cleaning up the apartment and I would get a full return of my security deposit so long as no major appliances were missing. Based on the entirety of my experience with the property management company, I expected they’d screw me on the security deposit, but I wound up getting the entire amount mailed to me a few weeks after I moved out.