Real Estate
Cry Wolf Quotes
You can no longer distinguish the real estate owner by the smile of prosperity, because his property is now a burden and a liability instead of a comfort and a source of income. To own a factory building in New York City is now a calamity.
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Op-ed by George W. Olvany, special counsel to the Real Estate Board.
[Those killed in factory fires are] an infinitesimal proportion of the population.
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Robert Dowling, NYC real estate man, and voice of business on the Factory Investigating Committee. Only date available: 1913.
It is almost impossible to sell any real property in New York City at the present time at its assessed value.
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Op-ed by George W. Olvany, special counsel to the Real Estate Board.
[Sprinkler systems are a] cumbersome and costly apparatus.
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Three weeks before the Triangle conflagration, the Protective League of Property Owners's counsel, Pendleton Dudley responds to Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo order that sprinklers should be installed in a number of warehouses. Only date available: March, 1911.
