The evening world. Newspaper, May 6, 1920, Page 20

hewers to R ent Queries; New Laws Explained for _THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1920. | | pay and I want to ask you whether can charge him for the room in whiel his furniture is stored Answer—By aii means charge | storing his furniture and has raised | married and he wants the flat for ber. the rent to $30, commencing June 1.| If 1 doa’t find a flat can he make me I have been acting as janitor without | move? Answer—df the landlord wished to move imto the flat himuelf he dould get you out easily enough, but since he wishes to rent it to his son-in-law The tube that serves New York— M4 for the room and make him pay you| 0d, will bave the preference if you vent ori (2 ELS | to: the janitor service. You are al- | can't find another place, lowing yourself to be imposed upon.| F, J, RI rented an apartment in Pi While the increase genre | of you | October, i, for a hee? of two is lews than 26 per cent jan you) years at $1, a year. learn the Phe Buening World has odtained the services of @ lawyer with one | ia year ago the court would most| apartment rented (o the tenant before in landlord end tenant oases to answer questions arising | \ikely hold that you would be justi«| me for $900. Is there amy way I can the new laws againet rent profiteering. If you are having any | fled in refusing to pay it under the have, my Pent reduced to 28 per coat, | circumstances. of ity with your landlord, or if you think your rental ts doing in- A. 0. In November, 1919, we| Anewer—No, I€ you had paid $908| 9 « a ‘ § tnrearonadly, state your case briefly to the Rent Editor of The | were raived from $16 to $18: in Janu-| the year previous you might have a PD» Yorld and ewer ¥ ary, 1920, to $21, and In March to $25./ chance to have it reduced, but in the ‘ ) 6 eg alee ngeethe Matar’ had hee hestereen —___...|[ did not complain because it wa atter © regtal the law-applies to P ing are the questions and) inq4 a bath, The landlord has taken|hard to get rooms. Now the land-|the tenant rather than to the apart- |. ‘6 for to-day: one of our rooms away to use for! lord says his 6 going to be| men’ ‘ K. S—I have received notice to — = —- a = — = —— = : : a ), by June 1, 1920, because the EG. U © PAT is sold and the new landlord for kG | Teeth—G | Heal: 9 . find any. Can he put Street if we do not find fjnother noe? w—Since the landioi® wants ‘apartment for himself the court Aoudtless let wim have it, be-| the law specifies the owner has) Prior right to his premises, You) ’ get at least thirty days in iM to vacate if the matter came V, E. T.—On gept. 1, 1919, I paid for the first floor of a two ‘amily It was sold, and om Dec. 1, the new landlord raised me 4. have been notified 1 will be raised $2 More on Juno 1, 1920. There have Mo repairs in the house and the has not been painted since ’s time, Please let me know veon . raised . in less than a herefore presumes ie to be unjust and op- tensive. You may refuse to pay if you wish and allow the matter to be Ajusted in court ™M. D. B.—Kindly let me know what can do to stop my landlord from me about every two months. ving in four rooms and a year I paid $11.50. In January | was t§ $13, in February to $16, in ch which I have paid. last raise | am going to refuse Pay next month, Would you me to look for other rooms at a reasonable price? ; in these times it is most | it to find apartments anywhere | In view of} SO A Tet ee Ee sharacter, jt would be wise before you leap. Since you Puld all the increases demanded gome Municipal Judges hold im be compelled to pay them @ year; others hold the matter 4 far for the reason. barb \yet be udjusied GL. G00 ear aio, we were Once taste that famous Vir- 5 im cember we'were _ $a and on Aprit 1, 1920. we and you know another $2. 0 A —and you don’t have to look tne, Feat, § tifnes et much Virginia oan tere bar dleed Be ta the foreign varieties put Sie eet whee sa, pas oven together. % unt to more than 60 per ce: Alittle Virginia “livens up” even a blended cigarette— but to get that true tobacco ted, taste you ought to smoke 8, R—On April 1, 1919, my rent pare unmixed Vepaia: toe i coo straight in & Picdmont. 1 of that year, and on Oct. 1 to Kppetonitzsas Tita, the house rns sold and the new No mixin'~No fixin' | Virginia Tobacco straight ows NE » If he does nothing about it, it to go to court und there be Memanded $52, although he has made no improvements or repairs. I BOW notified the rent beginning Ajwill be $60 und if I am not to Puy it to get out April I Bifered him the old rent of $47, which ‘accepted. What can I do? * Some Municipal Judges that wince he accepted the $47 can compel him to take it for a it; Others, that the matter of an ean still be adjusted. Con- @ to pay the $47 and refuse to any “further inc yas $22; on Sept. 1, § und on Feb, 1, 1920, it was § he landlord decided to install the rent to $40, inning June 1. Could I refuse to “until winter comes, when we ly be getting heat? + Refuse to pay until the ng apparatus has been installed, then if you do not think the im- nt ix enough to warrant the allow the matter to go to Where a just increase will be Be ee en on | Pleasant, safe daily oe ae ow | tooth-brushing—100 OODYEAR round trips from T COMPAN' “Good Teeth” to 933 Broadway north 2ist OUR ONLY NEW YORK STORE until the lease expires. 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