The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-11
3 Week That Was Not
Particular yActive and
the Facts About 1t.
BUSY RENTERS;
SUBURBAN FOLKS
Many Big Deals on the String,
but Hot Weather and Other
Things Make Market aLittle
Dull-The Talk of The
Agents Interesting
to All.

Al this season of the year there Tia
great diversity OF opinion to the
actual condition of the real estate
business There are agents and agents,
don't you know. Some OF them pull
down the blinds, SO far as ceiling ana
buying are concerned when the rental
season opens, and for month or two
| following conhne themselves strictly
10 the rental business. There are others6
VINO pull down the blinds on general
principles as soon as the heated term
!, opens. assuming, according to the old
rule. that all investors and all folks
with money to Invest in real estate
shln out of town with the frst coming
or the hot sun. and there are yet 9TH 4
eIs who. having done good business
IN the cooler months. take a little
holiday OF their swn as soon as the
hot weather Gomez The hot 7wenther
has come all right, and the last named
class OF real estate fellows are now
IN The mountains-some of them ara
others are on the seashore. There ts
yet another class, the boys who can
neither so to the seashore or to tho
, .n. tains. and must stay at home to
Try TO make commissions and make
both ends meet when they have y to
meet big bills and notes and things
at the end of each succeeding month.
what They Say.
1 have talked the las. week With all
OF these different kinds OF real estat e
folks, and do reckon that the most
reliable Information comes from the
Very last named, the fellows who have
to stay here and tight 1t out, or not. mi
however, the rental fellows tell me
that there has been great activity the
past week among the people who rent
houses The demands for Something
petter In the way of improvements In
! the houses rented have been unusually
large, and some of the folks who mako
| these demands back up their Judgment
IN 9 most substantial way BY SAYING
they will buy and build II they can,t
rent satisfactor II. IJ7,5
\ That Is bully. 1t indicates that many
renters are getting ipdepend emit that
Is. getting in shape to buy and build.
lha rs mighty good. but 1t does not
rent, for right we'll do they know
that there are others. Richmond In
| growing, and its money-makerss a are
| providing homes for themselves and
| doing away with the rental proposi-
lion. but all the same new rentera
are coming right along and taxing nup
1 the cottages and the homes and the
flats just as fast as the home build ers
| are vacating them. and all OF this Is
! a mighty good thing to say about pro-
| sressive Richmond; industrial Rich
mond. ifiyou please. 5ESl n
| business That Was Done. lit5
The real estate transactions for the
past week We're slncked off somewhat.
but all the same fairly good business
was done. >,lG s,q :. ! I 80
Salden Taylor & Co, report the sale
OF $4,000 worth of property, much
Of It being West Broad street prospecs
i've business property. TIL. junior
i member OF this Taylor Arm declined to
give particulars about his Broad
Street sales. That Is his weak-kneed
way. but he ayowed that notwithstand-
Ing his fear OF his own shadow, the
I $4,000 ngures we're all right, and III
have no doubt they are. Ij4i l7s
THIS Is perhaps the biggest sale OF
the week. although there were many
were added together they might show.
quite likely would show, much lar ger
aggregate. Some really warm = zig
| zarded folks of the OLD regime lsind.
VINO are very often anxious to REPORT
big salos, were too suggestlvely re.
lucent last week. The only explanation
that l can offer Is that they were shy
on big sales and did not wish yerv
much to tell about small ones. But all
| the same there were very many smaiil
safes, ana these, as usually reported.
| are much more reliable In the main
than some of the weekly offhand re-
ports of big sales In town and outilfn}
the suburbs. There are always sales
and sales and resales and trades and
swaps, and all that kind of thing, 59si.
Rumors In the Air.
! The rumors and the talk about
fancy deals at East Main and Eleventh
Streets and East Main and Seventeenth
Streets and various other large and
! profit taking localities are sim In the;
frI. n tf,tto - -
10 catch on to some definite particu-
lars, for the life of me could not
do IT. | guess when the deeds go to
record, as sooner or later they must
do. IL these reported deals ever set to
I; the recording point. will be able to
unfold tale that may startle sons
body but maybe the unfolding will
come too late TO help the SPECTATOR
and the slow-going Investors, the
slow going kind who are in the habit
of waiting for a dead sure thing before
they plank down a single dollar in
cash. lss:
/ The Rock Bottom Facts.
i From all the information to be
!, gathered In one way and another 7
i property changed hands within thaj
city limits during the past week. and
the most OF the sales that We're made
We're on the small order, True, there
are some big realty deals on the
string. but as far IS can be learned
} from the records and otherwise these
big deals are yet in the air. or. Yet
on the string. l M s
| t In the suburbs II was dirorAnt. The
agents who handle suburban proper,y;
are right up In G, the mos. or :hani;
reporting good business.
For instance, The Col NAL Place peopIs
who last Sunday advertised their! am
1 niversary, report big sales forjAthel
past week, The rain, they say, h ii NJ "
terfered not aslittle with 3sthelr; si.n-ii