The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-08
REAL ESTATE AND
BUILDING news
Rental Season at Hand,
and a Very Busy
Season IT'S. lis
NOTICES THAT ARE. \.
GOING AND COMING
Landlords Talk One Way; Rents
ers Often Argue Another Way.
Troubles of Rental Agents. j
Richmond Needs More 4
Rentable Houses--Sales
and Resales.

Busy was no name for It! The past 4
week was perhaps the busiest one tho
real estate agents have had for tho
last ten months. Quite likely there ayu
some agents. who. when they read the
above statement, will open their eyes,
and also their mouths. and ask whore
on earth did the man of news get that
Idea from. Some others may drop the
paper with the observation or thought
that the newspaper man is simply talk
ing through his hat, but all the Same.
the reportorial artist Knows what ho
is talking about. 1t was busy week.
exceedingly busy, for be 1t remembered
II was the first week In June: the time
when the rental business has to be re-
arranged; when lease notices have to
be filed. when tenants and renters have
TO give and take notice, when com-
plants about repairs and more plumb.
ing and repasnting and rebuilding and
rehabilitating and all that kind OF
thing have to be heard and looked
after, and every man and every woman,
whether they be tenants. proprietors,
rental agents or what not, have to- be
doing something to make the edgea
properly meet for another year, said
year TO begin September /, the arrange
ments OF which and for which must
ne looked after something like ninety
days ahead. And that Is how 1t comes
about that such of the agencies as have
rental department have been ex-
tremely busy the past week. 1t In
true that some agencies. few OF then
nave no rental department, and these
are the ones who may be willing to
certify that the past week was rather
quiz. The other fellows, and they ara
largely In the majority will certify to
quite the contrary. and they will sweaH
TO It. too, and proba bly, do some swear.
ing that is not just exactly accordfna
10 the highest code o. morals This
rental business is we'll calculated to
orins forth some swearing of the pre-
hensibe kind
Rental Agents Will OF Woe.
was right such amused yesterday
10 near an agent give vent to his feel
ings and what he laid was duplicated
IN a measure In the rental departments
OF dozen other agencies. AS we'll as
/ remember, here is about the tenor
OF his vigorous remarks:
GU see, this is or has been the
first week in June. Rents and leasea
begin in Richmond September l., but
me law says that onc-ycar tenants
must give ninety days notice if thew
do not wish to hold the place thew
nave had for year past The law
also provides that If. for any rea son,
the landlord or his agent wants to get
rid or q former tenant he must give
ninety days notice. Therefore. Juno
Is the day when these notices must
be swapped around. There is a great
deal of humbuSgery about the giving
ana taking OF these notices. There are
tenants who have no idea of moving;
IL They can help it, and vet they will
go throuSh the form Of serving the
nlnety-day notice with the hope that
they may thus he able 10 beat the land-
lord down in rcntal charges or force
MIN TO make some repairs to the prem
ises that he has consistently and In
s.stently refused to do up to date.
l. ,IN.
they get rented out of home and habs
itat and have TO go to the exuenss
oil moving whether they originally in 3
tended 10 or not. for as soon as the
agent who has the property in Charge
receives vacation notice he prod
ceeds without delay to erect on tho
premises for rent sign. and 1t someI
times happens that some fellow oomea
along, sees that sign and closes q lea I'D
before sunset Then the notice siyan
has no remedy but TO move or pay the
new renter premium. 1 have heard
quite little speck in this way.
Ways of Some LandIorda s
On the other hand: Sometimes 81
close listed landlord, who has been
trying In various ways to advance the <
rental charges, and By all others failed
resorts to the ninety-day notice scheme,
lie hgures that the renter is pretty
Wen satisfied with the house and the
location, and all that kind OF thinn.
and would pay a little more per month
rather than to so to the trouble and
expense OF moving, and SO he, about
the LIST OF June. drops in his littla
ninety day notice. Sometimes the rent
Ell tumoles. pays the increased rent
rather than to move, and sAe landlord
is happy. Then again. the renter re.
fuses to tumble. hustles around finds
new house somewhere else that suite
n
ter. and tells the landlord to go to
thunder and then il may be that the
landlords for rent sign stays on that
mouse for several months. half tha4
year. perhaps and il has been knows
to stay there full twelve months.s
These are some OF the troubles tha
go between" man tthe rental agentl
has to encounter. ~
Another rental agent who talked t0
me yesterday said he had the busiest
week Of the year. He declared that
there was more demand for houses
than he had ever known in his twenty
odd years experience. but the renters
want more for their money than they
ever before called for. Said he: "Peo-
pie are actually demanding enameIled
floors in the kitchen. papered bedrooms
for the cooks. and wallpaper orna-
ments on the back ward fence, and all
for the same or less money than they
used to pay for the oldstime houses ~
Then, too regular customers. ten
ants who have been occupying the
same premises for many years, ara S
asking for new conyeniences and mora
plumbing, and you know what more 2
plumbing means. or did you ever have
to wrestle with twentieth century
Richmond plumber? II you never did,
don't you pray for the privilege, that y
is, don't, il you have real orthodox 8,
views as TO tho penalties for hor1A.
made profanity ~ ss
Modern improvements Demanded. ~ ~
The agent quoted aboye was Of ~
course, looking at the business pureisssS
from his Own, alta ndpoint; that ot as}s55xx