The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-09-10
ARE YOU TRYING FOR ONE OF
THE CALLS CASH PRIZES?
$40 First Prize, $40 Second Price, So Third Prize,
For Best Letters on How Got My Home:
Competition Closes Sept l5---Send
In Your Letters Now

For the last month The Call has
been printing letters from subscribers
telling how they got their homes
These letters have been Interesting and
destructive as well to people who
want homes and yet do not know ex-
You may be able 10 ofer a helpful
suggestion TO someone ON this SUBJ
ject and at the same time win n cash
prize.
just write a short letter, zoo to 900
words, telling plainly and simply how
you got your home and inclose a
of your home II possible
Address the commu nication to the Real
Estate Editor of the Call.
There are five days more for taking
part i'm this honorable and helpful con-
test.
The Prize Winners will be announced
two weeks from today.
The following are some of the inter
esting letters received in the Calls
prize competition.
HOW OBTAINED MY HOME.
Shortly after the fire, in the fall
of 1906 to be more definite. a half
block of land was subdivided into
lots. The property is located in
Lombard street, a street which or
dinarily would not appeal to me-
However, lots 27xi37 were offered
at $1,000 on terms OF $500 cash and
the balance in three years with
per cent interest
1 had saved about this amount
by economizing every way / could
and took this opportunity TO invest
1t in land. I bought a lot in Lon-
bard street and by December, 1908,
had finished paying for it. Count
ing interest and taxes my lot cost
me s1,312. In the fall of 1903. I
sold my holdings for $500 cash,
and Immediately bought a house
and lot for $4,000. paying $500
down and giving a mortgage for
the balance. which / expect. 20
materially reduce soon.-A- II. 5.
CALL "AD.. SHOWED THE WAY
Real Estate. Editor. The Call: We
We're living in the city paying
high rent and taking in boarders to
make both ends meet. One Sunday
The Call had big real estate adj
ers promised an automobile ride 10
and over their properties. and
lunch.
More for the fun of the thing
ing in lots. we decided TO take a
trolley ride TO where the automo-
bile should meet us. We had never
enjoyed such a luxury. Then the
lunch was som ething OF an induce
ment, too. We arrived at the place
and found everything as represent
ed. Roast chicken and other good
things were freely served To all
who came to the big tent on the
knoll.
A salesman soon began to ex-
toll the immediate surroundings to
US. finally asking which we thought
were the incest lots in the tract.
My wife stamped her foot on the
knoll and said she liked those two
lots The salesman looked inQuir- .
ingly at me and I nodded Terms,
S25 per lot down and S. per lot per
month.
We had only 81 in the family
purse, which was accepted TO bind
the bargain, provided the other s48
was paid on my next payday.
Then contractor friend of mine
agreed to put up a she'll of a house
(nice looking on the outside, but
not finished inside), rooms and a
24x40. foot high basement we
moved into the house two years
ago.
1t is paid for now. all but SIS.
I paid 10 per cent interest, too. and
lots. We will live very comfort
ably in the unfinished house, for
1t is ceiled with heavy paper and
has solid board partitions, also
papered, until we can lay up
enough cash to plaster and finish
the inside nicely.
The outside is painted: we have