Morris tribune., 1886-12-08
MINNESOTA REAL ESTATE DtAltRS
ASSOCIATION.
MORRIS, Mimi. Dec. 1886
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MORRIS, Mimi. Dec. 1000
To the Real Estate Dealers of Mime
sofa:
You are doubtless aware that III
September OF this year at Morris Min
nesota there was organized anu OIL
ficered what is called the Minnesota
Real Estate Dealers Association. Its
object is to build up and maintain the
standard of the real estate business OF
the state and provide for an inter-
change of business, the protection OF
the interest of its members, ana OF
clients requiring the service otagents'
for the purchase or sale of real estate
The Association is in successful OPP
Grafton, not as strong financially or
numerically as we wish, but has
made an excellent beginning. we
desire t. have member OF the as
sociation iii every town in Minnesota,
where there is a real estate agent, so
that any member of the Association
having business in or desiring lnIor-
nation regarding any particular To-
cality, maY have Il valuable agent 10
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advertise our business and wants. No
matter what is for sale or exchange,
somebody wants it if he can be found.
BY being associated together we can
he on the lookout for each other, and
ind customers for each other. BY
having only reliable membership
(and no unreliable person will be adj
mitted to membership no one need
fear trusting others with full de-
scriptiou and location of property,
names of clients etc for we will know
that each others interests will be
protected. We do not allow our
clients to be WrOnged, nor allow UNI
scrupuiUus clients to wrong the AS
ISOLATION members.
Again, your town or location may
want mill, factory, blacksmith shop,
wagon shop, pork packing house or
store. By sending your wants around
among the members of the associa-
ton, they will assist you in obtaining
what you wish for. We hope soon to
see the Association strong enough to
maintain central office, where the
wants of each locality can he sent
with its facilities and inducements,
and where any person looking for a
location for business or manufacturing
can send, stating his wants. They
could at once be put in cOmmunica-
ton with the agents, whose city
wanted such man of mandatory.
We would be able to advertise our
state abroad, even as far east as
Europe, and our individual locality
at the same time, but it cannot be
done unless We are associated to-
gether for that purpose.
We wish each reliable real estate
dealer to join with us and help make
the Association power in the land.
individuals can accomplish but little
in the way of general advertising,
but by a union of resources much
can be accomplished. a book should
be published, giving the re-
sources and advantages of the state
in condensed form and be distributed
ut the county fairs throughout the
east, and in Europe, by the assistance
Of the railroads OF the state, but it
would require the united efforts of all
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few can not do it, because it requires
money and influence, and a few would
not carry the weight with them that
all the real estate men in Minnesota
as an association would. Every
member could have his name, post
office and county III this work to be
distributed, and any one wishing to
know about any county or city, could
easily find the name of a reliable
agent to whom to write. The resources
of Minnesota ought to be in the hands
of every man in Minnesota, so that in
writing to his friends east or in
Europe, he can turn to the statistics
of our state and give his friends in
formation that would turn them to
Minnesota, or stop them from cross
ing the state and settling In other
states. We should all be associated
to stop immigration in Minnesota,
not see ten and twelve cars on every
train, loaded with immigrants and
home seekers, passing through our
beautiful state, when we have all
they are seeking. By united effort
we can settle our lands, build up
manufactures, and materially in
crease our individual prosperity. II
is our belief that we can bring about
within the next year such prosperity
for ourselves and Individual localities
as never was seen in one year in Min
nesota. We are now on the eve of
better times, and we ought to be or
gained to let the world know what
we have and write them to come and
see for themselves, and we ought to
be prepared to receive them and en-
terrain them, so that they will cast
their lot among US.
From the date of the next meeting,
a paper devoted to the interests of the
Association will be published. We
hope to see the Association strong
enough to give such paper hearty
support and make it of value to all
real estate interests in the state. 1t
is intended to give subscribers the
use of its columns to write up their
respective localities, giving beauties,
resources, advantages etc. Such let
ters can be made of general interest
and value as well as of particular
value to the locality most interested.
We are now getting out neat
pamphlet, containing constitution,
bylaws, proceeding of last meeting