Renting a House

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 91, 4 May 1937, Page 9

Renting a House

"A GOOD LANDLORD." -

(To the Editor.) Sir, — Evidently "A Good Tenant — When Holding 1 ' ie either the same person whom I offered my six-roomed house to whose conscience has prompted him to qualify his goodness, or someone who has volunteered to remove the present barrier to "A Good Landlord" securing "A Good Tenant." When I was a tenant and couldn 't meet my rent as it fell due I asked, and was granted, fcime by my landlord in which to pay off the arrears, and when I was able I paid an extra amount each week to meet the arrears. I can i honestiy, say that after many years as a tenant of various houses 1 nevor left one without paying the rent up to date, so that if your correspondent has the eame recora. he would suit nie for a tenant. I had no unkindly feeling towards my landlord such as I am afraid the writer of the letter in your Frdday's issue has. He even goes so far as tosuggest that the eolution of the difiiculty brought about through the recent legislation passed by the "good GoVernment" is for me to sell my house and home and leave the country. Quite apart from the disservice he would do to the Dominion and the hardship at may cause me, it still does not make available to "A Good •Tenant" a good house, in a good loeality, at £1 per week as I am offering him. It is possible it may place Ihis house in the hands of a landlord Such as he has already experienced and this fs the very position from which I sought to remove him. When I tell him that I am a widow of very slender means; was born in this country over 70 years ago; -uvo all my family ,ties here and am it eueh an indifferent state of health that I cannot even travel, perhaps he will retract his suggestion which to me has all the appearance of the "battering ram" tacbics he imputes to others. I live on the east side and my home is less -modern than the one J am offering him which is seven mi'nutes by "Shanks's pony" from the Post Office. I can assure him there 's no "catch" in my proposition excepting the one the present Government has put into dt and this is the one I' am asking him to surmount if he still wants the house — that is get rid of the present unprofitable occupant of the house. Of course there-'s just a chance that my present tenant, being so far in arrears with his rent may decide to apply, and may be successful in securing, one of the new Government houses. — Yours. etc., ' "

Hastings, May 1.