Letters from Srila Prabhupada Vol.1 1947-1969 (in pdf) - Krishna Path

132 Letters from Srrla Prabhupiida
assistance with any tangible hope.
You have also hinted in your letter under
reply that I may try here some possibility
of money source. Of course my
students here raised fund by one scheme
of dancing a fund of $4000.00 since I have
come here and they have spent in different
items almost all the fund. But they cannot
take up the matter seriously unless there is
fact. It may be possible to raise fund in
that way if we have got actual salecontract
from Mr. Taylor on legal standing.
It is understood from letters of
Brahmananda that the Lawyer of Mr. Taylor
has now agreed to convey the title of
the property on cash down payment of
$105,000. I think you should get a sale
contract on this basis and take maximum
time, not less than, three months for final
payment. If required you can pay earnest
money at most $750.00 which you have
on our behalf.
If there is sale contract, my students
here and in New york will be able to raise
the fund very seriously. In the absence of
any sale contract everything appears to be
in the air and Mr. Taylor or his lawyer can
change his word as he has already done. I
think that is the best solution of the
present deadlock. I am forwarding a copy
of the letter to my students in New Yo rk.
Hope you are well. With regards,
Yours sincerely,
A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami
67-2-8
CONFIDENTIAL
San Francisco
18th February, 1967
My dear Brahmananda,
Please accept my blessings. With further
reference to my letter of yesterday's
date I may inform you that from the letter
of Mr. Payne and the schemes which produced
no fruit, it appears to me that he is
not in a position to secure money for the
house from any financial party. That is my
conviction. Now if you think that he is
able to secure money for us, if you think
that there is something hopeful by this
time then you can continue the negotiations
as he is doing but do not fo r
Krishna 's sake advance a fa rthing more
on any plea by him. He may be trying his
best but he is incapable to do this. That is
my honest opinion.
Next thing is that when a man takes
work in his own hand it is sure to be done.
If you are serious about purchasing the
house then do not depend on Mr. Payne
take the work in your own hand. Just enter
with Mr. Taylor in agreement of hire purchase
system sale contract for any reasonable
market price. We shall pay rent to
the amount of $1000.00 per month and
cash down $10,000.00. The repairing
work may be done by Mr. Taylor as he is
doing. So long his full money is not recovered
we shall continue to remain as tenant
and as soon as his full money is paid up the
title automatically becomes conveyed to
us. We have already engaged our Lawyer
and Mr. Taylor has his Lawyer. Let them
draw a hirepurchase-sale-contract on the
above basis. It is not amortisation but it is
practically an agreement between the tenant
and the Landlord. Let us remain as
tenant and let Mr. Taylor remain as land
lord. As Landlord he will have full right to
evict us failing to pay the stipulated rent.
So there is no risk on the part of Mr. Taylor
and I hope the lawyer of Mr. Taylor
will gladly accept these terms. Mr. Taylor
will be profited by this, because he gets an
immediate tenant and income up to 1000
dollars per month for a house which is lying
vacant for so many years. And for us
we get a house which is suitable for us.
Convince Mr. Taylor like this and enter
into such hire-purchase system-salecontract.
I think this is the best solution
for both Mr. Taylor and ourselves. Try