Real Estate
Cry Wolf Quotes
[The New York Herald noted that the owners claimed the order amounted to] a confiscation of property…
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New York Herald. Only date available: March, 1911.
The owners of real property are becoming terrified by the number of laws which have been enacted affecting real property in New York City…in each succeeding year there is a law passed…This compels the owner to expend…large sums of money, which…are absolutely needless and useless.
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Op-ed by George W. Olvany, special counsel to the Real Estate Board.
If you eliminate further bakeshops in the cellar…the poor man is going to suffer, and we are crying now for the high cost of living. If you will wipe out the cellar bakeries, the poor man will get a smaller loaf of bread.
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Dr. Abraham Korn, president of the United Real Estate Owners’ Association. 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.
