The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-03-10
REAL ESTATE AND
Bull DIN G news
The Shows That Came
Cut Off Business to
a Great Extent.
MUCH BUSINESS
DOWN IN TOWN
bad Weather Shut OFF Suburban
and West End Dealers, and
!; They Just Had to Get Down
in the Dead Centrc-Right
Good Business That
Was Done.

Don't talk ato me any more about
your beautiful snow. have mad
,cnough of 1t this week. The glstening
SNOW has been POLITICALLY set forth to
tnly disgust. The next man who talks
10 me about the giistening snow will
PIC met with a glistening gun barrel.
band I will be aiming that glistening
isun right at his heart
Thue SPOKE a real estate agent 10
lsne yesterday morning when ! Ven
Etured to ask him about business for
The past week. I could not hold him
down. although tried very hard. and
The went on to say: we real estate
agents had nm. things fixed up for
this week; had all kinds of engage
''nents made with prospectors and in
Testors and specuiator, TO look at
grounds and lots and houses and all
that kind OF thing, and We had made
'pur contracts with the taxicab folks;
HOO, TO take them out. And tnen came
fhat snowatorm and covered the earth
hnd put the ta&ioabH out OF commission
land all the hacks out OF tune and all
TOT the real estate bueiness out OF com
omission, SO far as suburban and West
END deals were concerned. Drst your
Tbeautiful snow! II la pretty enough In
Hts season. but thu 'beau,iluI ought
mot TO drop in here In the charming
folks had our stakes all set in another
kGirection."
But You Can't Down Them.
Well, we'll. guess the bad weatn,r
did shut OF the real estate men right
much last week, and | am not much
surprised a the chirping Of the agent
quoted above; hut all the sam. IL IS
hard TO down the average Richmond
real estate agent. and notwithstanding
the snowstorms and the transforms
HAT cut so much or a figure Last week
the agents were about and doing bus-
in sss. rs
II liz true enough that they could not
60 cut Into the suburbs and out to
the ~eetsrn extrerities and show the
ground Just as 1t lays. but they did a
good deel OF Office business and took
advantage or the uptoward outdoor
conditions TO close up In the oGRc.s a
great deal OF business tha, was still
hanging on the string
Another effect of tho snowstorms and
the rainstorms was 10 pull the attcn-
lion from the ou;-of-town ana eubur-
ban deals TO central city business Not
few OF the agents centred their Of
iorts on central city property. because
they could not talk suburban prospects
ana lar West End proba bilit,cs as elo-
quently as they could IL the sun had
sbeen shining.
Deals That Mean Something.
On. agency. j. Thompson Brown &.
20. tells me that {, took ADVANTAGE OF
1his situation and sold s35,ooo worth ~
property In the central par, of the ci.v
that Is to say, In the neIghborhood
of Broad and Second Streets. This
property Is now kind of n stable and
horse hospital, and the slight l.torna-
ton that Sits through the siey. Is 10
'tne erect that The sale means that some
very handsome improvements are 10 be
jsnadc and that what some of the nci ~, :
tpors hav. long regarded as an cyesorc
wiz become gem OF the rares, kind.
w may be hotel or IL may he IN
apartment, house. or 1t may be a big
retail house. Anyhow, it will NOT b.
p sfeblo much longer.
me same firm that made this d,al
$3.50 SOLD some more central proper.y
near First and Main Streets, and trn.
saies' added TO two right good Vest
End deals, footed up thcii. sales 80
somsthins like $4,000 for the wc.,i
and that is doing right well for 3
snowstorm week "
Amos &: Poindextcr report sales
'amounting to $4,000. incIudipg ,r,a
iNNest End transactions. hcaltby LII
on south Richmond. and wholn Iot NJ
farm property within sunshot ~
Richmond. %
Gibooney-Nuckols Company recorded
some big deeds the past week. hi, In
!deais upon which the deeds were nrad .
iea1eo nave already been reported.
anyhow. thu deeds footed IN ohon,
$4,000. wy '"ou
\ Grcnt PbtInnthropist
Pollard q Basby tell of some sc,.s
tney made that foot up about 10000
jim Pollard, the junior member Of iris
concern, is figuring somewhat as a
philanthropist lie does not CLAW,
that distinction for himself. but givr
~ to him II was :ie VINO promoted
fhe Eighth and Grace Streets hotcl
which am told is TO he n twelve.
story affair. and not an eisht-story
shanty as at first talked about. uo
also promoted and is bringing. IN
fruition the eight STORY builJinx t,a,
y. r. 10th is going TO erect at skill
and Main Streets. and he has a lnt M
other things on his mind, things OF n
\ philanthropic character n crea
hospital for instance. Real estate
agents do moi always 20 i'm for tbc
money in sight. Sometimes they go IN
FOR future development and for pby.
Ianthropy. Pollard, that is Jim is
something OF a plilnnthropist as well
as one of tho most wide awake real
estate agents in. all of these parts
When real estatc agents sell Ia rca
estate agents, then surely there Is
something doing. H. Seldom Taylor &
Go. have just sold to sutton & Co the
handsome ofllco building No ls North
Eighth Street. opposite the News
Leader building. and the nurcha scrs
/, VIII use ii for their enlarged redl
estate business The OH firm of SUIT
: .ton& Co. have been In the real eslat Il
business In this city for 10 these many
years. and 1t would be hard to estimate
the amount they have paid In ofict
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