Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-11
The Woes of a BuYer.


Real estate is moving about as rapidly as 1t
did before the money stringenoy. Buyers and
sellers do not appear to take any notice of the
mon y market, or in any event they are not
frightene1 to any extent. This statement may
be verified by anyone curious enough to take
the troublJ to look at the long list of transfers
furnished daily by the County Recorder. This
does not refer to the sales made by agents and
reported as they occur. The sales SO reported
are only about one-tenth Of those that actually
take place. For one reason or another nine.
tenths OF the transactions only reach the pnb-
lie through the daily publication of deeds left
for record and indexed in the Recorders office,
averaging about 50 each day in the year. When
a real estate agent was spoken to about 1t yes.
terday, he said,
I'm three out OF every four sales made people
object to publication-some for the reason that
the transaction does not concern the public,
others from native modesty while not few
say that the purchase Of property sometimes in
duces members of family to become improvi-
dent, on the assumption that Pap is getting
rich and can stand it." well-known dealer
on Fourth avenue said: sold house this
morning to gentleman of a very peculiar dis
position, who. after putting the deed carefully
away in the inside pocket of his vest and then
feeling on the outside to be certain that it was
there said: "Do not publish this sale. l do not
want to be troubled with those lIghtnipe.rod
men. The last house bought had barely got
home when an agent rung the bell and called
my wife's attention to the absence of rods from
the house, and wanted to put them up whether
or not. We got rid of him, and sat down to
supper. The bell rang, again. and another
sell the house. He had a board under his arm
and wanted to put 1t up at once MY wife is q
nervous woman and had to enter into explain.
atons about the purchaser to pacfy her.
Finally she got to understand the matter and
about that time two insurance agents got into
the house and we could hardly get them ont.
never had such trouble in my life. They
wanted to insure everything in the house. as
well as the house, and told me that we were
both foolish for running any risk with tenants
who were liable to go to bed with the gas at
in the room. One had what he called cut-rates
and the other fellow wasn't particular about
rates. he only wanted to insure"
mo, don't publish the sale" said anotbar
gentleman who purchased last week. .if Won
must publish it say that the sale was MADE
some weeks ago and save ny family from the
annoyance OF upholsterers, paper hangers and
painters. My father bought and sold houses in
this city at one time, and he made money, but
he got grey-haired and died early and 1 have
heard mother say many time that he was
make some change in every house he bought or
wanted to advise him as friend. If the house
set level with the street some one would want
to raise 1t and terrace the front of the lot. and
another would want him to make a half base.
ment at the cellar; some wanted to put a new
front in it with q bay window, while others
would sit for hours in the parior waiting to
show him plans to remodel the whole thing or
tear it down and build new house. he would
not get to bed until midnight and when
mother would open the shutters in the morning
porch waiting for father to get up to see
whether he had made up his mind about the
changes. Yes, sir, 1 believe his death was
caused by publishing his purchases"