Evening Star Newspaper, October 24, 1925, Page 13

REAT REAL ESTATE MARKET REAL ESTATE, ESTATE; TENANT EVICTIONS RARE | THE EVENING STAR, WASHIN OCTOBER 24, HOUSE PLANS FOR HOME GTON, D. €, SATURDAY, PLANNERS 1925, IN CAPITAL, REPORT SAYS Have Amounted to Less Than One and| a Half Per Cent of Total Cases Filed. Actual evictions hy the United | States marshal during a period from |annual report includes March 1 to September 30 of this yvear |a new recorder of deeds have amounted to less than 113 per|present one is declared inefficient asx cent of the total number of landlord | it retards the business of b and tenant cases filed. according 1o |real estate men and all those John A. Petty, secretary of the Wash- | nected with Ington Real Fstate Board. who in his | A license recent annual report has made a sur-| real estate vey of the situation in Washington. | Luiw now Explaining in his report that the Washington Real Estate Foard has gone to considerable lengths to keep fully in touch with the proceedings at the Municipal Court. Mr. Petiy states that the hoard received daily a certi fied report of all landlord and tenant cases, Involving some 13,538 disputes. on which a careful watch was kept for any attempt at wholesale or wun Justified dispossessions. Rent As a result of these investigations Mr. Petty finds that most of the cases Are for actual failure to pay rent. but that the tenant usuallv pays the rent he defaulted, and thereby cancels the court proceedings. The part of Mr. Petty’s report deal Ing with the landlord and tenant sit nation in the District of Columbia and axplanation of his survey reads as follows “This record. which is now in our office and will be properly certified to byva na emplove of the Municipal Court. shows conclusivelv that vast maforlty of ca filed are fo default in pavment rent. An analvsis of the in hand shows a total of 5 filed from rch 1 tember n 5. inclusive. Of this numb show on the summons of com- plaint that thev were filed de- fault in payment of rent where the summons of was indefinite personal inve of the board disclosed that filed for non-payment of rent this information we can nitely that out of the number of cases filed. amounti 13558, there were 13181 cases filed <olelv for non-payvment of rent. This fact shonld certainly be conclusive proof to every one interasied In the siublect of housing in Washinzion that there has not heen since the | expiraiion of rent legislation anw | Wholesale attemnt to dispossess fen- Ants .. .. increase renis Other matter touched on similar in a numb » advocated number of ed the estate men in the city. APARTMENT HOUSE PERMIT IS ORDERED Chevy Chase Citizens' Usually Paid. Committee Expected to Appeal Case to Higher Court. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE 1 Under a decision of Chief Judge Ham mond Urner and Associate Judges Robert B. Peter and Glenn H. Worth ington in the Circuit Court here, the Citizen's Committee of Nection 4 Chevy Chase. will. unless the Mary land Court of Appeals intervenes, he required to issue to the Bradley Lane Apartment Co. a permit for the erec tion on Rradlev Lane. near Connecti cut avenue. of an apartment house to The (| s Commitiee refused to issue & permit for the erection of the apartment house on the ground that rezulation adopted by the committee pproved by the county commis Sioners. prohibits the erection within section 4 of any but one-family houses, and the apartment company instituted in the Circuit that s section special taxing m referred to I long after the lot on which it is desired to erect the apartment house was sold by the Chevy Chase Land Co.. the building restrictions promulzated by the Citi ns' Committee did not apply The court sustained the contention October 24 With was not i |A Quaint Cottage | ‘ For a Small Family | | This Dld- Fashmned Type Is| Picturesque and Livable and Inexpensive.» is house is essentially the old- | fashioned American cottage type. But though quaint in its structure. it is | excessively modern in its equipment | | ngement. It is built of clap-| rdx and has a long. interestingly broken roof line of shingles The outside ix painted white (with able and protective covering for wooden house) and the roof fs painted moss green. 1f the brick chinfney is painted white you will get the effect of much more space for vour house, but of course it can be left the natural brick color if you de- sive. It T were going to live in this house T should want the window frames painted a light Holland blu ‘hm\e\'p there is no doubt that keep- | ing the walls all white would add to| | the seeming | The constructfon of this house es it practical and interesting for | 0-foot lot. The actual width of the | :hnuw is 331 feet, and the depth 41 feet. 1t would be difficult to arrange house space on a narrower frontage. | If yon will study the floor plan will see space everywhere economized <o that there is a sense of elhow room as well as practical living conven | fence. For this reason there is no { hall {living room {m nd the dining room and the stairs end at_one side of the | Jiving room connect so that for a few | feet at least they embrace the whole width of the house. There is a recess: | entrance to protect the living room in Winter and this entrance is | that it can carry two doors for a cold | climate A pantry from kitchen odors and the kitchen | itself ix as compact as is possible. The protects (ho dining room | o buill | | right-hand side of the kitchen ix left | for table and working space. On the lefthand side. near the pantry. is a porcelain sink with double drain boards and there is a little porcelain sink in the pantry for silver and glassware to suve steps. There is also a porce lain ice box which is iced from the outside porch. for some the truest kind of economies. Of course, there | living room and groups of windows for all the light possible lecanse economy must throughout one bath. This, of course. must he placed over the pantry and over the be studied luxuries are | fireplace in the | this house there is only | REACHES RECORD MARK tivity Registered for September Is Highest Attained in That Month Past Ten Years. in ally rose from a temjsorars registered for September highest point reached for the past ten vea the index of activity compiled by National Boards natior her than the index for and lin the asso. present adjustied index the 1ations te the influence While not adjusted to elimin he index for stember reached at is 1o the market activ ptember was 6 e greater than the age activity the same cities ing month of cent o m,,\;m,,‘ culatiol The September index | higher than the index for Massachusetts Park residential sec iful Washington's beaut homes. Containing seven n with six miles of improve most tion of detached The Triangle of Increasing Values —between Connecticut, Massachu and Catt Over 200 homes from $15,000 to $200,000 Huilt 2nd under con- struction. Actual improvements home values exceed $8,000,000. Wooded villa central and side hall homes, with lots from 30 to Park Office, 32d St. and Cathedral Ave. Middaugh & Shannon, Inc. ESTABLISHED 1899 Riggs-Semmes Bldg., Dupont Circle, Potomac 2200 feet of streets setts edral aventes, 115 feet front. It Pays to Pay Attention to the Condition of the Roof rantedly of the apartment company and di rected the clerk to issue a writ of mandamus requiring the Citizens' | Committes 10 issue the permit applied tistics discloses the mazing faer Attorney George F. Wells of ler, that out of the vis of 13- hinzton represented the n the Municipal Count company and Attorney and tenant rela- Bonic of Rockville the Citizens’ Jeriod from |Committee. It is understood the case | : er | Will be taken to the Court of Appeals. | with some of the heavier work done | of evictions. that is, the uv'u’ num- v in the present vear excavat-|hy a helper. however. of families dispossessed by the the erection of the building| A small house with three bedrooms | rshal. amounted to 198, which is t was halted when the |is often a great convenience. More than 132 per cent of the case - Sholtes of Washinz- | and more the idea of separate rooms This pr e | was areated oo s Charee OTHRNL | o e et | evietions and have |7 tain o permit from the Citi the average cottage seldom boasts | Adkec. re than two sleeping rooms. Where bere there is a little baby. it is today con L sidered essential to arrange a rate nursery. This design is one that would adapt itself well to other material than wood | if one could & it. Stucco. with its variety of would bhe charm- | ing If this were to be used, the base. ment under the llving room end of the house could be used as a garage, by sinking a roadway and walling up sinks <o that there ix no expense of extending plumbing pipes throughout | the house here is a large room for the own a small one for children or guest | and a_third room which can be utilized for the mald if one is kept. The | housework could easily be managed by the homemaker and housekeeper. —and it pays best to Very “A further analysis of Few Evictions, | Note that the concessions to economy in i 1 have detracted little, if anv. from its charm and convenience. while its interesting exterior lines and practtcal floor plans stamp it o house for comfort and happiness. An open fire in the living room, flowers in the sunroos, vines over the door. simple furnishings and colorful hangings will make this FOR RENT-STORE And Entire Building 733 13th ST. N.W. Adjoining C. & P. 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