The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-21
Business Is A DO ut in
Spots Here, There and
Almost Everywhere.
MONEY PLENTIFUL:
BUILDING A CIT We
Most of the Sales Are in tho
West End, but All Over the
City There Is More or Less
Activity-There Seems to
Be No Let-Up in Rich
mond Development.

The past week has been very cur
iouS ono in the real estate business.
THAT is what one of the oldest men in
tho business told me Yesterday. and
when on explanation was asked for.
he went on TO say that more than halt
the agents had been idle all the week
and some others had been on the hump.
lie further said that solnC Of tho
asents who started out expecting IN
do big things fell down. and others
who started out looking for only iittlo
things turned UP in the end In good
shape. This old s,aser continued In
theIe words The real estate business
Is very much like poker game. hid
You ever play poker? did in my
younger days, aud sometimes had
luck and sometimes | didn't. | have
known weeks when | leid tours all
the time, and then came weeks when 4
couldn't get above two dnccs. II is
pretty much that way in the real es-
tate business
Like n Poker Game.
Ny friend above quoted has the thina
down pretty nearly right. and am
sure he meant We'll wnri, he made tho
comparison The fact Is that the real
estate doines of tho past wesk has
been all about in spots, like Il poker
game. Twenty or MOI" agents have
told me that they have done absolutely
nothing. TWENTY o,hp.s have said
chat while they did enough 10 mako
| buckle and tongue meet" they had
nothing TO hrag of. The others have
| done we'll The business is All about
| IN spots.
| lin Pollard OF The firm OF Pollard
| g. BaSby, while busy III !, political way
Just now. does not fall 10 keep busy
! II a real estate way. Tic reports that
ais grim did some right lively stunts
the past week, and soid properties
amounting to Si39,.75. Thtse sales in
! cluded sli East Broad Street. to Il.
:'ranclonc, S4i,s5e.
sixty feet on sixth Street in the
| gear OF the old Y. NJ. G. y. property,
| f27.5oo 10 L. u. iotchkiss III.
| Four houses, co.'s, 20?o and s0sa
| Grove Avenue and zoe Grove Ard-
quo, TO II. $ walerstein for $50
| 0o0
Thirty third street home Tor So
| $50
10 Isl. Ess, Grace street So
| 900.
! Two houses OIL lianoycr street. So
| 900
No. 81. North sixth street to Dr. L.
| .. Cobb for s3,35O
No iO6 North Seventh Street 10
George W, and Dorsey Bragg for So
| 600.
The new hrn OF Cover and Smith,
| which has Just opened m N No. Is
I, Ninth street made some good sales
! the past week, y. NJ. Cover. Of THIS
| iiSn. has been real estate man in
| one way and another for many years.
| Tie originated, in n way, Glnter Park,
/ and he discovered Woodland Heights.
| and in one way and another lie has
| sold and traded several million dol
| lars OF real estate.
Gordon Smith the Junior member or
| the concern, Was once a newspaper
! man, and a good one he was. This
firm is going 10 do good business it
| good fellowship and great energy and
lot OF hustling will count for tho
! good.
! Some big Sales.
| Amos and poindcXter made some
| pretty sales the past week, amount
! ing 10 $4,000
| j. Thompson Brown ANA Company
| sold 100000 NJ Richmond and sub
urban dirt.
W. NJ. Miller aud Company report
the sale of $Ti,ooo of city realty. most
| ly in the West End.
! ~ w. Hown and Company tell mo
I of sales they made that amount close
| Ia 100000.
SeldenTaylor and Company did /.
| some stunts the past week that run
| up TO near 100000
! Altogether, the real estate business
| Of the past week has lccn about IN
| spots. but in the main something iko
! a million dollars Of business has been
done.
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