Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1902-03-28
JEWELLERS IN FLATS.
ANEW YORK REAL ESTATE AGENT on
THEIR CHARACTERISTICS.
Peculiar Lines which, According 10
His Experience, People OF Dinerens
kntionalities Take In CAUSING
Trouble 10 the Owners.


Trouble 10 the Owners.
The first question put by the renting
agent was. What nationality, please %
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 l could refer you at
once to certain buildings on my list
which would be apt to please YOU"
The woman In the blue hat had half a
notion 60 get angry.
81 don't see what my nationality has
to do with finding suitable fat" che
said.
at has a good deal to do with II"
said the agent. Now, 1 can see
straight Off that you are an American.
born and bred. This is a delicate cues
ton that you have plunged me into.
but since am I'm II mean to founder
around little while longer and tell
you Jew facts pertaining TO the merits
and dement's OF different nationalities
considered In the light OF fiathouse
tenants.
First Of all, want to speak from
the standpoint of prompt payment. If
my success in business depended upon
each tenant paying his rent exactly
when II was due. would try to fill ali
my houses with Scotchmen. Never
have lost penny on a Scot, and sci.
dom have | had to wait
Il am not making the rash assertion
that II Is impossible for a 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 l have never
| suffered loss at the hands of Scot.
But they give trouble In other ways.
They are fearfully quarrelsome and
raise so many rows with the other ten
ants through the dumb waiter shaft
that IL keeps the janitOr busy straight
ening out domestic snarls. In all my
buildings where Scotchmen reside |
select janitor with a view to his even
disposition and diplomatic gifts. II
doesn't matter so much about his abIl.
ity for scrubbing and keeping the fur
mace going. Unitarian accomplish
nIents are secondary consideration so
( long as he Is endowed with the blessed
qualities of peacemaker.
Taken all In all. the most peaceab,e
| people ge. In my houses hail from
/ Sweden. You never hear peep out
| OF Swede. lie doesn't bother his
neighbors and he doesn't bother me
Unless the provocation is extreme As
rule. he is good pay too. The only
fault have to end with him is his
fonGncSS for moving \ lease is a
dead letter i'm his eye. and he has no
more compunction about moving with
ont a days notice than he has about
going to bed when hr is sleepy"
The woman In The blue hat asked
| what were the chief characteristics OF
Americans rs tenants
Their supreme seltishneSs." said the
agent. They have not spark 81
consideration for II 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 th,
plumbing fixed once or twice year
They want new decorations every
month. and all the trimmings must be
| first class too. American tenants nav
big prices for their flats. but there isn't
really so much profit In catering to
them as TO other nationalitIes. for the
|
nearly all my income in trJSng to keen
up the building in the style they de
maud. On the other hand the people
, who ask for the least are the Italians
aud 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 infiict so much damage on
walls and floors. Judging by the looks
| II an apartment just vacated by a
large German family. one would think
mat 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 10y
| zen RtrSsian families. and If they were
not compelled 10 repair their own dam
ages IT would keep me poor putting in
new windows and buying new gas
globes.
~ also rent to coIored people. have
three houses full of them at present,
and | must say that | have never had
better tenants Blu, when you come
down to tacts. all my tenants are nice
people. only | thought 1t might not be
amiss while on the subject OF nation
atty to mention few OF the peculiari-
ties of each.;'-- New York Sun.
Homemade stoves.