Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-01-14
The Landlords Side OF the Renting
Question.


Question.
| notice a number OF articles in
your paper from renters about the
way the landlord treats the poor ten
ant and how hcartless he is and so
on, and so on.
| happen to own a lite more land
than | can work and have to rent it.
My experience has been, if you want
I the renter to do !, days work for
You, ii he can think Of some plact 20
go (and he usually cam, he will not
do it; and if he does work he wants
to put in eight hours time and get
pay for twelve, and such a thing as
fixing up the fence or anything
around the place without big pay is
unthought-of. He will lose an hours
time in hunting you to tell you some
thing needs to be fixed around the
place when he could make the re-
pairs in five minutes time. If you
ask him to do it and tell him you will
pay him for the work he will want
pay for the time he has lost in hunt
ing you up, and three prices then for
doing the work. At the same time
he is the one that is benefited.
TO mention such a thing as stop
ping wash or planting cover crop
would insult him.
5. S. Dunlap says: "Where is the
incentive to try to make greater
yields when the tenant knows that if
he makes more stuff at a greater eX-
pense to himself and continuous toll
for himself and family, the surplus
will go to the landlord in the shape
Of increased rents?"
In this country 95 per cent Of the
land is rented on the third and fourth
plan, and If the tenant would build
up the soil he would increase the
yield of all crops and benefit himself
more than he would the landlord.
The richer the land the greater will
be the yield and the greater the
profit.
My experience has been when the
tenant comes to rent he will talk
like a saint and promise everything.
but usually ends up by doing as lit
tie as possible to make anything and
takes no interest or care of anything
on the place, and unless a place is
taken care Of it will soon go to rack.
For this very reason you will find
SO many poor tenant houses.
There is very little inducement for
m f,y
when his experience has taught him
that there are SO few that will take
care of anything. Any landlord who
has renter that will work and take
care Of things will always provide for
him a great deal better than he will
for the man who does not work and
care for things and moves every
year What the landlord wants is q
man who will get up and work and
make money for himself and not be
constantly moving about, but will
stay for series of years, for by do.
ing this he will get better treatment
and make more money for himself.
And this kind OF renter will soon
soon buy home of his own and You
will not hear Of this kind of man
abusing his landlord.
Now, Mr.. Renter, will Won kindly
look back over your past life and see
II the idea has not been with you, "If
| do thus and so it will benefit the
landlord" and for that reason you
have left it undone and you have in
1ured yourself more than you have
the landlord.
The tenant problem will never be
solved until the tenant realizes that
there is responsibility resting upon
MIN to do his part as well as for the
landlord. In nine cases out of ten
'he landlord is more than willing to
Tx things comfortable for the tenant
"hen he finds the tenant is willing to
help himself. N r Tisdo,a