Gilliland board siphons off $1,872.14 from owner monthly dues for Mazzei preferred subsidiary T D & D Unlimited questionable maintenance activity at Cardinal managed community of McLean Hills: Obscure wall of decaying bricks gets expensive bath

One day last October, a small section of brick wall in an exterior stairwell of the basement at 7831 Enola Street got a very expensive bath. A T D & D Unlimited front man stood unsuper-vised in the well from early morning to late after-noon that day with a wand aimed at a patch of brick the size of three patios, shooting smelly water. The brick is lining a deep alleyway that leads to the meter room in 7829 only a Dominion Power emloyee would travel, once a decade. Gilliland board members and Mazzei property managers authorized this brick job and doled out $1,872.14 from condo fees paid to the association by people like me for T D & D, a Mazzei preferred subsidiary and front company.

Most people never see the brick.

Residents and visitors don’t see the brick.

The brick’s not visible from the sidewalk above.

So who cares if the brick there looks dirty?

McLean Hills is full of dirty brick on its most exposed, most public walls never more beautifully displayed than now thanks to the Brown Construction Services unconstructive ripping out in 2011 of decorative hedges and handsome shrubbery, established and paid for with my monthly dues just in the mid-90s, and the Peter's Landscaping more recent and still on-going aggressive, indiscriminate, and unauthorized slaughter of so many existing, often native and good-enough, trees and greenery (some of it also put in during the 90s landscape project which for those times was considered lavish) that take the focus off dirty brick.

Do these surfaces ever get a bath?

Why were nearly $2,000.00 in owner monthly dues dedicated for bathing -- with a “pwr washr” treatment (see the ledger if the Mazzei trio will give it to you) -- of a teeny-tiny section of brick no bigger in area than a condo dining room that nobody except perhaps a utility worker once a year even notices?

What is the thinking behind such a stupid and insulting misapplication of SEVEN MONTHS WORTH ( !!! ) of my dues?

This 21-year resident of McLean Hills has a ton of good reasons to justify the Nescafe jar; her $1872 brick-job posting is just the tip of the iceberg and the prelude to a blogette series on nonfeasance, concurrent negligence, and misappropriation of unit owner assessments by Gilliland board members and Mazzei property managers.

~V. Wyvell, community idiot-at-large, this Sunday morning, July 22