"WANT TO SELL YOUR HOUSE?"

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 25 September 1919, Page 4

"WANT TO SELL YOUR HOUSE?"

Auckland suburban dwellers are quite accustomed to be waited upon by sewing-machine agents book-canvassers, piano salesmen, in v ranee, patent medicine vendors etc., etc. To these must be added house and land agents who are taking to calling from door-to-door to enquire whether the inmates want to sell house or section (if any). These visitors are frequently as hard to get rid of as house-flies in summer. I hey frequently refuse to take no for an answer, and will stop and argue the point until the door is slammed in their faces, */* * sell mv Place to you," a Mt Jjiden resident recently replied to (( one of these travelling agents, "where d'ye think I'm going to live myself. I suppose you 11 allow I must live somewhere?" "I daresay we could nx you up," replied the agent with a bland smile, " we often have flats on our books." " Well I'm not a flat, anyhow," replied the householder, and I tell you I don't want to trade." The nuisance has become so pronounced that some house-owners are taking of erecting boards in their front gardens with the legend displayed thereon "this house is not for sale." In a number of cases, lately, purchasers ot houses on seeking to take possession have found the tenant they wished to turn out absolutely refuse to move, and have thereupon expended 6/8 in legal advice only to discover that they have no remedy—save to raise the rent.