The New York herald., 1921-11-27
Gentle Art Of Gouging as
Practised by the Janitor
BY THE ODD pARAGRApHER.

Even the lowly tenement dweler mas
his profiteering worries.
The attention of the Odd Paragrapher
was called last week to the fact that
jaaitors of old law tenement houses In
vnrious sections Of the city are demand
ing excessive bonuses for rentable quar-
fers.
one wage Garner, compelled to move
because the house in which he lived had
been condemned, visited twenty-eight
buildings before he obtained accommo-
dations for his family. There were
vacancies in only six of the twenty-eight
buildings. In two OF these houses ne
declares. he saw rooms at fairly reason
able rentals that were much more de-
sirable than those he finally rented, put
in each case the Janitress refused 10
rent the apartment unless she ootalheu
n bonus of $25 The only suite ofered
him without a string was so badly IN
need of renovating as to be uninhab-
table. His tale of woe finally touched
n profiteeress and he obtained TOUR
rooms Tor s. bonus.
This latest form of malpractice VIII,
OF course bring further censure upon the
heads OF property owners in general.
The fact that these abuses are probabiy
practised without the knowledge OF the
owners will be ignored. and so another
unjust chapter will be added TO tne
propaganda against "proiiteering land-
lords"
A visiting Brokers' Viewpoint
A Young hustler from Lewiston. Me,
recently broke into the ranks OF New
York real estate brokers. he did not
come here to show New Workers how TO
sch real estate. On the whole he be-
leves this busy metropolis is fairly well
provided with capable brokers.
The Lewistonian Is here 10 acquire
certain parcels of New York realty for
n wealthy resident of Maine. and while
he ia here he plans to spend part OF his
time in studying New York metnoos OF
selling. mortgaging, managing and ap-
praising real estate. His identity, ne
declares, must remain a secret II the
mission which brought him TO New YORK
Is to be q success. He hes BEEN n New
York about two weeks and expects to
remain about six months.
New York brokers, he declared. are
"human dynamoes-apparenti willing
to work night and day 10 close. deal"
Concerning brokerage methods he
SAYS: Thus far haven't found a very
great difference i'm the system we use
from those followed in New York, ex-
cepting that your New Yorker works
with greater ease and speed. He keeps
hammering away ut his man until he
has either landed him or lost him.
when Il comes to putting over big
deals, of course. the New York broker
makes a visiting realtor feel cheap. In
Lewiston there is quite a senso ton when
a transaction involving 100000 Is an
nounced. Here million dollar sales and
leases are closed so frequently tnat no
cne takes particular notice OF such n
happening.
IL was greatly surprised TO learn from
one Of your leading realtors that reai
estate transactions involving even
81. 600. 900 are seldom featured on the
front page OF New York newspapers.
ond that II is necessary to sell great
landmark or a property with unusual
historic interest to earn this distinction
I'm Lewiston a $4,000 sale Is consid-
cred sufficiently important to warrant a
first page story The people back home
make the sale OF fairly we'll known
building quite as much a rart OF the
town gossip as any other happening Of
interest"
Hoidup boomerang.
A Queens builder relates an interest