The San Francisco call., 1909-06-06
The DELIGHTS of
CITY and COUN-
TRY COMBINED
How to Get a Home With the
Advantages of a Metropolis
and the Healthful Fun Of
Digging in Your
Own Garden

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We take 1t for granted that you want nome 70
shelter yourself and family.
Paying rent is 4 burden and wGste- isn't h2
Perhaps you think you cont afford that home
just now. BUT you can, and we are prepared to
show you how.
And you certainly don't won't to mCke thot,
home on a desert or m wild. But you are tired
of the CRIME and turmoil of the city's center.
Well, have you ever thought Of the glOries Of
Oakland and its vicinity?
Do you know what Oakland is doing in the way
of developing and beautifying herself?
Come and let us show you oakland.
Let US point, out, the places where the wide
awake city is spending hundreds Of thousands Of
dollars on parks and boulevards and Fairgrounds.
Let us call your attention TO the Identification Of
Lake Merritt wondrous sheet Of water right
in the city's center.
Let us show you the schools and the evidences
of highly developed culture that, have won for
Oakland the name Sc The Athens of the Pacific -
and that means the most beautiful and most
cultured city IN all the West.
Once you have seen the city and its wondrously
beautiful environs you'll surely feel that you
could afford it you'd wont home right there.
we dIs
did plan for letting you buy your home for prOcti
colly what You throw away in rent. Wen tell
you all about that, for the asking.
And we have any number of the most beautiful
sites for you to choose from. On any one Of them
YOU can have oil the pleasures Of city at your
coll ond all the delights of the country at hand.
The streetwork is done. The sewers are put
in. The sidewalks are down. The gas and water
mdns the electric current and the telephone wires
are up to your door,
There goes On electric car! In eight, minutes
you be in the heart, Of Oakland, at the church.
the theater, the concert, the lecture, the club
whatever you will.
On the other hand, you can dig in your own
garden. tend your own flowers and hear the wild
birds sing IN your own trees.
Now, doesn't that beat, paying rent TO Imd-
lord and getting nothing IN the end?
Remember that, in these sections have to
show you we will be interested for years TO come.
We must, keep things in shape for our own in
tereSt,; and the money spend to help our
selves is incidentally going TO benefit you.
Our properties are ready for home builders, and
we have home building plan thdt, never has been
equaled.
WE CARRY SEVEN-ElCHTHS OF THE FL
NANCIAL BURDEN YOU PAY US ONE
EIGHTH OF THE TOTAL COST.
Our interest charge against you is only per
cent. Every time you make Us payment you
stop the interest on t,hdt much. That, payment,
is only about what you now pay for rent waste
ful, spendthrift rent.
Our terms easy and your burden is light.
Almost before you realize it you will own your
own home. Il viii have increased in volue while
you were paying for everything around Oak
land increases in value right along.
So just look over the whole field. Inquire into
every project. Examine every scheme.
Then come TO US and see If we haven't the best
home sites and the most reasonable home building
plan.
In ony event come and let us show you the beau
ties Of Oakland and vicinity.
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