Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-06

piace wa used m advertising IN the New
fsrs papers. and &c eeald aot and ths
ADVERTISEMENT either Nobody but tho
man ~ho collected for me advertisement
eoaid fad II for IA he found II But
thea 10 Was accustomed 10 H. That Is
hls business
II : Tot pleasant 70 come right out and
say paclicly what lot II dissgreeahls
things there are connected with being a
landlord Think Of being ~ roat or
bal. enjoying ones self for moment
aud getting letter from your agens
SAVING thai rats have taken possession OF
the building and are running the elevator
or nights themselves Ia order 10 save
chm hing the stairs
Unfortunately the same man who
built Iay ooiidlag erected a twin 20 II on
the sauis street. and another man owns
IL Somewhere ne read IA a paper thar
competition il the life Of trade. and 80
he lowered his rent little last spring.
Since then have had 10 give nay tenants
more cut glass and saggy rides in order
to retain them They still grumble and
threaten. and even when | am away
lrcsarnz 20 packed houses they write 10
me II . coo kroach dies IL the house
under suspicious circumstances and
threaten 10 move away. claiming that IL
Is not good neig oorhood-
Tue aouse Is IN al aristocratic location,
and my taxes are III proportion. aud vet
one OF my tenants, u lady from Shells
burg Canada. who wears cork limb
SO am tod oy u custom house officer
came 10 me with tears In her eyes and
SAID thai she noped | would not think
that because she now had 10 hire apart
ments sne mad always been SO poor.
Once she was an only child, the daughter
OF a wealthy policeman IN Toronto She
was we'll brought up. sne said. and hated
10 pay rent. 1 soon discovered that this
WA tho case.
did not throw her out on the street,
a. the stage landlord does. or drag ner
around over the door or garnishee her
cork leg. rs some would have done, but
excused ner. and she went away.
She said she mad lucrative position
with Mr.. Depew inquired about it,
hoping TO get some rent that was still
due. ! found that she was engaged In
shaking the Administer aisle carpets Of
the New York Central and Hudson River
railroad parlor cars
She saw me coming and was about to
hiss something at me through her
clinched teeth when she remembered all
Of a sudden that she had taken them out
while she was at work and left them on
the woodbox
between landlord and tenant under the
common law that. independent of ex-
press clauses in the lease, the following
duties are imposed upon the tenants:
First-To pay rent
Second-To render fealty or to be
faithful to the lessor.
Third-To refrain from committing
acts Of waste.
Fourth-To make ordinary repairs
Fifth-To render up possession at the
end Of the term
As landlord am forced to state that
all tenants do not pay rent. Some ask
you to give them months rent in order
to secure them as tenants, and then at
the end Of the second month they get
mad and go away because You did not
kiss them good night, or something like
that Some New York tenants have no
credit anywhere except with the truck
and van men. They lead a nomadic life
and rest a. well in . van as they do any
where.
| had q socialist In the west fat all
last winter asked him once to define
socialism to me. He said 1t was the
right to sleep without remorse in the
spare bedroom of the rich without re
moving the pillow shams.
He left me in May because he did not
like the locality. He claimed that the
trees Of the park sort Of hemmed him in
80 that the wind q great deal of the time
was not strong enough to blow through
his whiskers.
need not, may say in closing. refer
to the other divisions Of this subject
made by Professor Dwight and other
eminent lurists. Even the second divi-
sion. requiring under the law that the
tenant shall reader fealty TO the land