Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-06-25
MOVING DAY WOES
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A tour of the real estate this morning
| found most Of them with the bulk Of their
| troubles past. One man took time by
/ the forelock a long while ago and got "A
| parge percentage of the tenants he had
on his lists to buy the property they
lived III. This put him To the task Of
acting as n mediator between owner and
occupant when it came To the matter of
fixing price, and III large number Of
cases he also found il necessary to act is
banker. In consequence, he holds a big
shcat oil mortgages, first, seconds and even
thirds, on properties, where former
tenants have become owners, although
their equity in the property may only
amount To "A few hundred dollars. In
several instances, IT is rs low as sngl G
hundred But none the less, the house
and house renting problem have been
solved for these people and they viii have
hnc opportunity to learn the lessons
of thrift
HERE 8 A pRoFiTEER oF SORTS.
Still another real estate man told of
troubles he had been having with one Of
his property owners This mnn -"H
told you his name you'd have fit, he's
that prominent, SAID he owns n small
six-room house, which he let, rs are most
of the houses IN Wilmington now, on the
monthly lease plan And twice in the
past year he has raised the rent, each
time 81. lie wanted to do II n third time,
even while the tenant was still voc1fcrous
over the last boost, but the agent read
sort of riot To him, to which he gave
attentive ear. and decided that rather
than nm the risk Of getting into hot water
with housing committees and the govern
mont hp al rtfrafr from, the Ta.tt
again
Still another real estate man told Of n
difficult situation that had confronted
him lie had tenant ~ house who
rented by the month and had sublet to n
smpyard worker pnrt Of the house
About a month ago the original tenant
left. but the shlpynrd man stayed The
owner wanted TO rent tn some ono who
would take the whole house but the ship
yard man refused TO go and stuck tightly
to his place In this attitude he was
backed up by the government investigator
The job Of adIudicating the difficulty was
too much for tho real estate man and he
told the owner To handle the job himself
NoN-rARrrstN LEAGUE nUsY
Az the Non-partisan League head
quarters this morning there WINS y con
stant stream Of callers with complaints
that they had been ordered to move. and
could not find house or that the landlord
had whooped the rent on them and what
were they to do about Il anyway Those
who were on duty adjusting difficulties
did so wherever 1t was possible without
starting any further trouble. but by
trying to get landlord and tenant to
gethcr N amicablc conference at winch
the league man sat rs arbitrator In this
way great number of difficulties TINT
might have caused serious trouble were
Strengthened Oct and both sldes went
away more or less happy
MI who have had hand ~ the troubl
with view toward keeping peace have
worked on basis of getting he tenant
to pay a small increase This most of
them have boon wiling to DO rafher than
move or get INTO u legal snarl. Ia some
cases great obduraey and greed have
been encountered One woman who paid
S15 u month for a house was found to he
renting second floor for SD and having
trouic with tenant who objected -
paying more. or quitting Tho sub tenant
stays and the original tenant has bitter
memories Of what was told her about
herself