GREEDY TENANTS
The ideal existance which the ten'ants in a block of flats in Madrid had enjoyed for twenty years, during which they had lived rent-free, has ended. The owner of the .house in question died apparently without leaving heirs, and after living rent-free for some months the tenants formed a committee which administered the house on a communal basis. But much will have more, and they resolutely refused to pay taxes, until the municipal authorities threatened to eject" them. Then an apparently philanthropic gentleman stepped forward and said that as the tenants were all people of moderate means he' would be glad if they would allow him to pay the municipal tax for them. They were delighted to find such a Christian spirit and thanked him effusively, and so the years went by. Recently all tenants were given notice to leave. He who pays the taxes for twenty years on a house in Madrid automatically becomes the owner. The patient and far-seeing "philanthropist" has torn down the old house and is running up a large new building on the valuable site.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 128, 1 June 1935, Page 21
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