Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1902-03-14
JEWELLERS IN FLATS.
a NEW YORK REAL ESTATE AGENT ON
THEIR CHARACTERISTICS.

HIS Experience. People OF Dineren,
NHtionaiities Take In cau.spa
Trouble To the Owners.
The first question put by the rentin.
agent was. What nationality. please p,
ana the woman I'm the blue haf renIied
oyasking. why do you want TO know -
meant no offense." said the agent
only thought that 10y finding ON,
Your nationality could refer Won M
once to certain buildings on my list
which would be apt to please Won !,
Ahe woman in the blue hat had half a
notion to get angry.
Il don't see what my nationality has
to do with finding suitable fat" che
said.
III has good deal to do with IT,"
said the agent "Now. can see
straight of that you are an American
born and bred. This is n delicate cues
ton that you have plunged me into.
but since / am in It mean TO fiounder
around a little while longer and tell
you few 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. II
my success in business depended upon
each tenant paying his rent exactly
when 1t was due, ! would try to fill all
my houses with Scotchmen. Never
nave lost a penny on Scot, and sci.
dom have had to wait.
Il am not making the rash assertion
that 1t Is impossible for a Scotchman
to be dishonest while everybody else Is
trying his best to cheat me out of nv
very eyetceth. The point wish TO
make is that personally I have never
suffered loss ut the hands of n Scot.
But they give trouble I'm other WAYS.
They are fearfully Quarrelsome and
ralse>so many rows with the other ten
ants through the dumb waiter shaft
that it keeps the janitor busy straight
eninS out domestic snarls. In all nv
buildings where Scotchmen reside 7
select janitor with a view to his even
disposition and diplomatic gifts. 1t
doesn't matter so much about his abil-
lily for scrubhing and keeping the fur
mace going. Unitarian accomplish
ments are "A secondary consideration so
long as he is endowed with the blessed
qualities of peaccmaker.
Taken all In all. the most peacea BILE
people get In my houses hail from
Sweden. You never hear a peep out
OF Swede. He doesn't bother his
neighbors ana he doesn't bother me
unless the provocation is extreme. As
rule. lie is good pay too. The only
fault | Lave to find with him is his
fondness for moving. A lease is n
dead letter in his eye. and he has no
more conjunction about moving with
out n 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 Ms tenants.
Their supreme solishness." said the
agent. They have not spark of
consideration for a 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 paw
big prices for their flats. but there isn't
really so much profit In catering TO
them rs TO other natiOnalitirs. for the
simple reason that | have to pay out
nearly all my income in trying to keep
up the building i'm the style they de-
lan NIL
who ask fer tie least are the Italians
ana the French. They take most any
oil thing feel like giving them. the
Preach meckly providing their own
decorations and the Italians going
without.
Il Ike German tenants pretty well.
too but they are terribly hard on flats.
| never could understand how they
manage TO !nfict SO much damage on
walls and floors. Judging 10y the looks
If an apartment just vacated by a
'arge German family. one would think
That their star piece Of furniture was
hattcring ram.
The cars former subjects also have
an abnormally developed bump of de-
structlveness. 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 In
new windows and buying new gas
globes.
Il also rent to colored people. have
three houses full of them ut 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 1t might not be
amiss while on the subject of nation
ality to mention few of the peculiari.
ties OF each."-New York Sun.
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