Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner.

  • Turner, Ernest.
Date:
1884
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sides, so to speak, are handicapped'. The landlord has his property damaged by exposure to weather ; the tenant is personally rained upon. But the tenant can put up an umbrella, and the landlord can’t. Or, at all events, its elevation will not be of any practical protection to his pocket. Moreover, the tenant can go out of town till the rain be over and the house can’t. An appeal to your landlord on these grounds— gently pointing out that you have no tendency to rheumatism yourself, and are passionately fond of fresh air; but that you are really pained by the sight of the damage which is accruing to the property of a gentleman to whom you are under such never-to-be-forgotten obligations, will rarely fail to carry conviction. It is otherwise when the house has been burned down, and the landlord by whom it has been insured has duly received the insurance money. Because in such case the landlord’s interests are, as may easily be seen, directly opposed to the rebuilding of the premises. The two or three or more thousands of pounds received from the in- surance office will bring in five or six per cent, if placed on mortgage on another house. If fooled away in rebuilding the burned one before the term is up it will bring in nothing. Because the rent has to be paid anyhow. And the moral of this—otherwise doubtful piece of morality—is : either see that the necessary covenants are inserted in your lease, or don’t have