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Show Apartment Owners ; Plan Fight Against ; 'Cutthroat' Rents Aaaociation Hita Attempt to Lura Away Satia-fiad Satia-fiad Tananta Scoring apartment bouse owner i and managers who are attempting to lure tenants from one apartment house to another by offering "cutthroat" "cut-throat" rent reductions, the Apartment Apart-ment House Owners' association open, ly declared war on such activities Wednesday. Werner Klepe. secretary of the association, as-sociation, announced Wednesday that, in violation of the orgsnlssUon s pro posed code of elhlcs, canvasser are at work in the city attempting to dissatisfy dis-satisfy some apartment house tenant and urging them to move to cheaper buildings. "It has been reported." Mr. Klepe said, "that In aeveral instance these canvassers have gone from door te door in various buildings and have tried to lure awsy tenant with rent reduction offers." BREAKS AGREEMENT He pointed out that this action vleV la tee a verbal agreement between apartment house owners which stipulates stip-ulates that they will not enter into . "cutthroat competition" by luring away satisfied tenants. The agreement ha never been formally proposed. In writing, but Mr. Klepe said that it is understood by all this owners. At a meeting of the associstlon held Tuesdsy night the group adopted the following plan: "We Uke the stand that any facta within Ourselves which tends to re duce rents or encoursge discontent os) the part of tenants, or which leads to concession In the form of specie! see-vices see-vices not demsnded by tenants of their own Initiative, Is harmful and should be discountenanced. Mr. Ktepe further said that If such sctivity continues, ' snd is successful, in getting numbers of tensnts to move, it will cause a tremendous loss te spartment house owners, snd will rev duce the total rent income In SafiT Lake by thousands of dollar. WILL TAKB STBPS ' ' "The aaaociation will take tmm dlate steps to stop this prsctice," Mr. Klepe said, "but we are unable to state at the present time what action we will follow." He did not state which spartment house owners hsd been practicing the asserted unethical procedure, but at was understood that, with one exception, excep-tion, they were not members of the assoclstion. , The Apartment House Owners' a soclatlon was orgsnlied m May, 1932. It haa 62 members snd controls M buildings. L Dsniel Stewart Is preer dent and Mr. Kiepe Is secretary,' |