Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-06
LOOKING FOR APARTMENTS
With Coming Of Winter Agents Find
Greatly Increased Demand.
BIG RANGE IN THE PRICES
Tenants Looking for Quarters
where They WIN Not Have 60
Feed Coal Into Furnaces
This winter.

fall and the suggestion Of winter. there
grows a demand for apartments Real
estate men look for q brisk business in
apartment rentals this fall. The demand
has begun already with the first days
OF September.
Within the last four years a great many
apartment houses have been built in
Omaha; so many as TO attract attention
and call forth comment Yet those built
within the last three or four years have
practically ell been equipped with up-to-
date conveniences. Every year new CON
veniences are added 10 the new apartment
houses going up
Years ago these buildings were finished
In ordinary wood. sometimes oak. but
often a soft wood. These began to look
shabby inside with time. Today the finest
Of hardwoods are going into the newer
apartments An example OF this IL the
Morehouse apartment Just completed
within the last few weeks, known as the
Highland Court. to be handled by A. p.
Turkey q Son. These apartments are fin
iEhed in mahogany. The bed rooms are
OF white enamel conveniences that were
not dreamed of two decades ago are here
Installed. The apartments are equipV6d
with electric washers. They are equipped
also with vacuum cleaners, the power
being furnished in the engine room below.
The whole building lie piped with the air
pipes for vacuum work ana there is q
pipe attachment in each apartment. All
the tenant has to DO is TO attach the hose
Of the vacuum cleaner to the pipe In the
wall and go to cleaning.
Some OF Convenience.
This Is an example or what the most
modern and up-to-date apartments in
Omaha are today. People flock to these
in tho winter, and many live in them the
year round. There IL no coal to shovel.
There Is no fire 10 stoke. There are no
grimy, soot-covered hands to wash and
soot-saturated coats and hats TO send to
the cleaner. Above ell. there are no ashes
20 carry. There is a janitor who looks
after all that There is nothing TO do ex-
cept occasionally call up the fanitor II
he Is sending up too much heat. or II he
is not sending up enough There IL no
garbage to carry and there is no trouble
with the garbage man about not calling
for garbage often enough. The janitor
takes all those troubles upon himself, and
sees TO II that all runs smoothly
With September Omahans begin 70 re-
turn from their vacations. That means
they must find place to live They
have abandoned their residence or their
apartment for the summer, and now are
casting about for the most convenient
NJ artment that their financial condition
warrants. Others are new residents IN
Omaha, who are seeking convenient and
thoroughly equipped apartments. For
these reasons those handling rental Of
apartments are beginning TO receive many
calls for such locations.
There IL big range In prices OF apart
ments In Omaha. One can get them for
from $40 or t55 for the smaller apartments
OF three rooms. with a greater or less
number Of conveniences. up TO SIS TO sos
for slx-room and seven-room apartments
In the most modern, most up-to-date and
most highly equipped establishments In
the city.
Figure ON Coal Bill.
Many people all over the city are today
looking up their last years coal bill ana
trying to figure out whether they would
not do better to pay $50 q month for
apartments this winter than TO pay SIS a
month for house rent and SIS and s26 a
month for coal to keep the house warm
with a furnace Every fall this same
calculation goes on in hundreds Of homes
in the city, and every fall a great many
OF the caicuiators decide in favor OF the
apartment house, especially as the coal
bill Ia becoming, year by year. more and
more Of . problem. Then. too the light
bills. the gas bills and other incidentals
are TO be reckoned with.
Real estate agents are brushing up
their rental departments. The question
OF modern houses begins to be a serious
question In the fall. Many would not live
without furnace In this age. There
are others who In house OF five rooms
would Just as soon get along without a
furnace. There are those still who stick
20 the baseburner. on account of the
pleasant glow Of red Goals, and because II
furnished a steady heat without eating
coal % very fast. There is tendency
among a certain group OF renters to seek
houses without furnaces when they are
looking for something in a five-room
house. They hold that they can heat a
house OF that size just as well with a
base burner as with furnace. and that
they save q great many dollars through
the winter In coal bills, as the furnace
necessarily consumes more coal.
Houses OF seven and eight rooms, how
ever. are little hard to rent unless they
have a furnace A great many who have
houses OF this. kind to rent are beginning
TO realize the difficulty with which they
have TO contend and are putting in fur
naees N this class OF houses before offer
ing them for rent.