The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-25

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you go into my business. Take
bright looking, well-repaired, whole
some appearing house and yard in any
neighb orhood, and it sells quicker than
The discount an agent must give for
lack Of repairs is far greater than the
repairs would cost. .-.-
(which house will prospective buy
er look at most closely-an old one, or
a new one? A child could answer
that. The moral, then, is to keep
house looking like new.
full strain on this morning. Maybe you
are right, but I have noticed that the
first remark of the tourist who has Wis
tied Havana the last few years, to his
newspaper interviewer, is: HHavana
is the cleanest city in the world.' You
will find travellers classifying every city
as clean or dirty.
put up their goods has a great deal to
do with their good or bad sale. I know
of lots of varieties or brands Of SOAP
that sell on account Of the box. and also
writing paper. Property sells the same
way;
apolis that the real estate men who are
in touch with the trend Of the times
meyer Sr,,t try X to handle vacant property
shape. The property that is graded,
sodded, planted with trees and equipped
with sidewalks and sewer connection,
sells most easily and at the best prices.
The day Of selling virgin soil is past.
''What am trying to deduce just
now is an old story to the best realty
agents, but it can It be told too often to
ID oot
seem to appreciate that the same con-
ditions apply to houses and lots. Keep
your houses and lots in good shape, and
they will sell better if you want to sell,
to keep them.'
What Will Be Built.
Five permits for the week amount to
$74,S0O worth of building. Other per-
story frame flats, down.
The large, permits were as follows: /.
+; Berry, four two-story frame flats,
2214-230O Emerson avenue s, 500 1000;
to be completed about Sept. 1.
Electrical Engineering company,
q Sixth street N, $4,000; William
Kenyon, architect, and E. j. Davis, con-
tractor.
fiat, l7l0-l7l2 Portland avenue, $l2, 0DO.
| @. P. and M. E. Dennis, four-story
brick fiat, IL Spruce place, $4,000;
Yale Realty com pany in charge to be
completed about Oct. l.
G. G. johnson, two two-story frame
houses, ,1515-l521 West Twenty sixth
street, $1O,8O0; Edisens & Halden, con-
! tractors.
E. G. Haley has drawn plans for six
houses which J. G: Oswald will build
$4,000 to $4,000 each and will vary in
size from 24x32 to 3Ox42 feet.
The Minneapolis Brewing company
has a permit for the foundation Of its
brick restaurant and hotel at 1924
Fifth street S, at $500: John Wun-
der has the contract. The permit calls
for foundation for a six-story building.
The H. N. Leighton company has the
contract for, the Voegei Brothers store
improvements at 628 Nicollet avenue, to
cost $1,000, and for the improvements
to the Powers Mercantile building, to
cost ST ,OOO.. KEGS & Colburn are the
arhitects in the latter case.
A contract let by w. M. Higley to J.
l.. Robinson, the builder, is for mod
ern residence at 2417 Pillsbury avenue.
It will cost $500 and will be built
after plans by w. M. Kenyon, architect.
Changes will be made in the Bank of
Minneapolis building, to cost $500.
William Crawford & Son will make the
changes.
| Transfers of Property.
A deed has been filed transferring the
flats on Hennepin avenue between