Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1901-06-21
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JEWELLERS IN FLATS
a NEW YORK REAL ESTATE AGENT ON
THEIR CHARACTERISTICS.

HIS Experience, People of Dineren,
Nationalities Take In Cau.inn
Trouble TO the Owners.
The first question put by the renting
agent was, What nationality. pleaseP'
and the woman In the blue hat replIed
byasking. why do you want to known
Il meant no offense," said the agent.
Il only thought that by finding out
your nationality 1 could refer YOU nj
once TO certain buildings on my list
which would be apt to please you"
The woman In the blue hat had half n
notion to get angry.
II don't see what my nationality has
TO DO with finding suitable fat" she
said
1T has good deal to do with II"
said the agent. "Now, can see
straight of that you are an American.
born and bred. This is delicate cues
ton that you have plunged me into.
but since 1 am in II mean to founder
around little while longer and tell
you few facts pertaining to the merits
and dement's of different nationalities
considered In the light OF flathouse
tenants
First OF all, L want to speak from
the standpoint of prompt payment. II
my success In business depended upon
each tenant paying his rent exactly
when 1t was due, 1 would try to I'll all
my houses with Scotchmen. Never
have lost penny on a Scot, ana sell
dom have had to wait
Il am not making the rash assertion
that 1t is impossible for q Scotchman
to be dishonest while everybody else is
trying his best to cheat me out of my
very eyeteeth. The point l wish TO
make is that personally 1 have never
suffered loss at the hands of a Scot.
But they give trouble i'm other WAYS.
They are fearfully quarrelsome and
raise so many rows with the other ten
ants through the dumb waiter shaft
that 1t keeps the janitor busy straight
ening out domestic snarls. In all my
buildings where Scotchmen reside /
select janitor with n view to his even
disposition and diplomatic gifts. 1t
doesn't matter so much about his abil-
ity for scrubblng and keeping the fur
mace going. Unitarian accomplish
ments are secondary consideration so
long as he Is endowed with the blessed
qualities of peacemaker.
Taken all In all, the most peaceable
people / get In my houses hail from
Sweden. You never hear n peep out
OF Swede. He doesn't bother his
neighbors and he doesn't bother me
unless the provocation is extreme. As
a rule, he is good pay too. The only
fault / have TO find with him Is his
fondness for moving. \ lease is a
dead letter In his eye, and he has no
more compunctIon about moving with
out a days notice than he has about
going TO bed when he is sleepy"
The woman In the blue hat asked
what were the chief characteristics Of
Americans as tenants.
Their supreme selfishness," said the
agent. They have not spark OF
consideration for landlord. They
want the earth. They never get
through asking for improvements. They
are not content TO get the walls tinted
and the woodwork painted and the
plumbing fixed once or twice a year.
They want new decorations every
month, and all the trimmings must be
first class too. American tenants pay
big prices for their fats, but there isn't
really so much profit In catering to
them as to other nationalities, for the
simple reason that have 10 pay out
nearly all my income In trying to keep
up the building in the style they de
mand. On the other hand. the people
who ask for the least are the Italians
and the French. They take most any
old thing / feel like giving them, the
French meekly providing their own
decorations and the Italians going
without.
Il like German tenants pretty well.
too, but they are terribly hard on fats.
] never could understand how they
manage to intiict so much damage on
walls and floors. Judging by the looks
of an apartment just vacated by a
large German family, one would think
that their star piece OF furniture was
battering ram.
THE cars former subjects also have
an abnormally developed bump of de-
structiveness, although they run to
glass instead of plasterIng have one
house down town that is occupied by
ten Russian families, and If they were
not compelled to repair their own dam
ages it would keep me poor putting I'm
new windows and buying new gas
globes.
Il also rent to colored people. have
three houses full of them at present.
and | must say that have never had
better tenants. But when YOU come
down to facts. all my tenants are nice
people. only | thought it might not be
amiss while on the subject of nation
atty TO mention a few of the peculiari-
ties Of each.oNew York Sun.