The site I needed and could not find
Condo Conversion DC is an owner-side condo conversion advisory based in Washington, DC, run by a DC-area investor who converts rowhouses himself. That sentence matters because of what this site is not: it is not a lender content-marketing a loan product, not a title company fishing for settlements, and not a general contractor with a different name. It is the information side of an operating practice, published.
The origin story is ordinary frustration. Planning a conversion, I searched the way anyone would and got the same results you did: a Maryland hard money lender’s blog post, a nationwide lender’s template page, a title firm’s service blurb, and one thin specialist site with its prices behind a call. Nobody published the 5 percent fee. Nobody explained the tenant election or the vacancy exemption. Nobody printed a single all-in number. The market’s information layer was built by people who profit from the confusion, so the confusion stayed.
What this site commits to
The numbers stay on the page. The calculator covers the whole stack, statutory fee included, with no email wall in front of it. The process guide names the statutes and the filings plainly, TOPA, the tenant election, the vacancy exemption, CASD, because an owner who understands the board hires better and gets fleeced less. And the voice stays honest: where a project should not convert, the tools here will say so, because bad conversions are how owners end up in the news stories.
What is actually for sale
Judgment and process management, for owners and small developers who want them: feasibility reads on specific buildings, path planning around tenancy facts, and running the filing sequence while you run the construction. Some readers hire that; most just use the site. Both outcomes are fine, and the second one still beats what the search results offered before this page existed.
Reach me at (202) 570-7131 or [email protected], or start with the homepage and the neighborhood pages. Bring an address; specifics beat theory every time.