“CRISIS” AGREEMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 24 November 1938, Page 3

“CRISIS” AGREEMENTS

I RENTED COUNTRY HUMES COUNTY COURT CLAIMS j lßy Air Mail-Special Correspondent! LONDON, 291 b October. Property owners in the West of England are indignant because Londoners who rushed to rent cottages and houses during the days of (lie crisis are repudiating agreements, now that the. refuges an no longer wanted. Londoners, on the other hand, allege profiteering on the moves any moral obligation to complete the contracts. An estate agent in Cirencester, Gloaces. tershire, said this week that during the crisis week his office was besieged bv Londoners seeking country homes. In >u t a single case bad the agreements been kept. “K.verv day of crisis week 50 people came to*this office,” lie said. "Many of them had as much as £IOO in M ies, which they were ready to pay down as Although 1 insisted on a quarter’s rent in advance, all thi smoney has been returned as the landlords had no legal right to keep it. The crisis ended so suddenly that the agreements we were pieparing were never completed, and in every instance the letiirn of the rent paid in advance was demanded.” In .South Wales where rent-had been paid in advance and its return was asked for, landlords were preparing to fight the claims in the county courts.