Though he can snag Serena and Venus Williams to play on his tennis team, the Washington Kastles, dealing with miffed neighbors is a harder feat for Mark Ein.
In a scathing editorial in the Georgetown Metropolitan, Ein was called a “terrible steward, even worse neighbor” over a buildup of snow on the sidewalk of his 19th-century Beall-Washington home, better known as the home of the late former Washington Post owner Katharine Graham.
Unlike Graham, who facilitated the Georgetown social circuit through her home, Ein has not moved in since he purchased the property in 2002. That move has caused some to whisper that he’s not maintaining the estate and wondering if he will ever move in — or if he has plans to flip it.
But Ein said it just isn’t so.
“I am still planning on moving and living there. The blogger is wrong,” Ein told Yeas & Nays. “That is completely why I bought it. I viewed it as something I would own for a long time.”
Until Ein finds the time to move in, he said he has a caretaker and property manager, who were assured by a contractor that the snow was taken care of. When he read the blogger’s complaint, he had the snow shoveled today.
His neighbor, who shares property with the multimillionaire, said, “I can tell you that when I call him, if he doesn’t get to me within a second, his assistant does … he’s great,” Jane Caffitz said.
Perhaps the blogger was hoping their wealthy neighbor would shovel the snow himself?
