“Poor Pay, Good Tenant.”

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3, 21 January 1905, Page 44

“Poor Pay, Good Tenant.”

“It isn’t always the tenant who pay* his rent on the first of the month who is most desirable,” said a householder the other day. “Your prompt tenant is likely to hold you his debtor for that virtu® and feel perfectly free to ask for numerous improvements. My best paying property is leased to a man who is always two or three months behind in his rent. Of course, I lose the interest on my. money for that time, but that is all. In the three years in which he has rented of me lie has not had the nerve to ask mo even to paper a room for him. I haven’t done it, either. Tn one instance he had some plumbing done at his own expense when he .should have charged it to me. I am constantly afraid that he will get prosperous some day and want to pay mo on time. Just as sure as lie does I will have to spend a lot on the house.”