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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every Sunday there is construction - call the hotline and report it.
Every holiday there is construction - call the hotline and report it (President's Day is coming up)

Check the permits - anything they are doing outside of permits - call the hotline.

If nothing else you can make it hard and have it cost a few more dollars for them.[/quote]

Seconding this. If they got this far, it probably means the immediate neighbors of the property are not on top of reporting. I had construction adjacent to my rowhouse starting about 18 months ago - it pays to be aggressive with the developer/contractor. In my case, we met successfully at the beginning of his project, and then he tried to do demo work on Thanksgiving Day 2016 (yep, started at 8 am and we had a houseful of guests). I was very clear that I had no problem calling DCRA to report him. For a while he tried to say it was ok, he'd just take the warning, the work had to get done, etc. But I called his bluff and 30 minutes later, he packed up and left. It set a strong precedent for the project that we weren't going to let him get away with cutting corners and we had an ok relationship for the rest of the project. [/quote]

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