The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-10
Business Looking Up as
Summer Days Grow
Few Hours Shorter.
SOME GOOD SALES;
SPECTATORS WATT.
Bankers Expected to Loosen Up
When the Frost Begins to Shine
on the Hilltops-Rental
Agents Busy-Somc
Views Of an Au-
gust Renter.

Tho sales OF real estate within tho
city limits during the nast week
amounted to a little over 100000. The
sales In the suburbs and near unto the
suburbs amounted TO quite much.
And yet there are agents and the
friends Of agents who solemnly swear
that business Is mighty dull. and they
are quite right.
Half OF the agents. or the moving
spirits of half Of the agencies. are
taking n summer vacation Some OF
them are In the mountains, some with
rather depraved taste are on the sea
shore, some with good old hard horse
sense are in the backwoods. and IL
may be that few arc on the Sriny
deep looking for Il foreign shore on
sea wave upon which to sing the gong
Of their past successes and their OPP
timistic views OF the future
Sticking TO the Job
And then there are some or the
agents or parts OF the agencies who
are staying right here In Richmond
and trying TO sweat the whole thing
out. Those who are kept here are
not doing very much in tho selling
line. but / am told that they are being
kept not a little busy In the renting
line. This renting business is n little
peculiar. Beginning with the month
OF June. the renting business becomes
very active. that is to say. there arc
All xmas OF Tor homes ana
tenemcnts and fats and tho like OF
that. Then again. the inquirers have
a kind or idea that by waiting Il while
they may make better bargains Maybe
they can and maybe shey can't but
the fact remains that along about the
middle OF August such OF them rs have
not made their arrangements for
apartments. fats. houses or what not
have to get little busy, and IL is this
kind OF business that has kept the
rental agents hustling during the past
week.
One OF these fellows told me yester-
day that since the first day Of tho
week no had closed up forty -scyen
rental contracts. at least forty OF which
nigh, have been closed up forty days
ago, and were closed UP last week on
the same terms offered forty days ago.
but the would be renters preferred to
walt and take the chances with the
hope OF finding better terms
On the other hand. renter assured
me that he had gained at least a 10
per cent reduction by holding on. He
was fellow. however, who had but
little furniture 10 move. and the NOV
ing proposition cut very little figure
with him. Nevertheless. ne had his
little lecture ready. and here is what
he said The rental agents are in the
habit OF stuffing YOU with r whole
lot OF talk about the scarcity OF
way early in the rental season and
then try 10 make you think and make
you impress other people with the
idea that there are mighty few resi-
dences 10 be rented The truth is that
the renter who waits a while gets a
bargain. II you don't believe me Just
you look at the rent signs all out In
the West End and all over Church
Hill. or course, the fellow who breads
~ rf NJ NJ nd
OF the drayman thinks ne makes good
by renting early, and maybe does, but
all the same. there are a whole lot OF
houses yet for rent. and September is
twenty days ahead yet" Truly there
are two sides 10 the rental question.
Bowe & Son. Carnell & Son, Selden
Taylor & Co. Richcson & Crutchheld,
Pollard & Bagby. Miller e Co. Ciolsan
& Nash, Rose & Co. Amos & Co. Glib
bony. Nuckols Company and others
report small sales, but large enough
TO keep the thing going. Among the
sales they tell about were several
farms near unto Richmond and two or
three a hundred or more miles out.
Garrett & Co, sold for c. T. &
j. B. Fink, of Maryland the Irwin farm
Of 1900 acres, located on the upper
James. c. Evans was the buyer,
and he paid for the good land and the
fine improvements thereon about S4O,-
600
Zimmerman G Co. report sales closed
during the past week amounting 10
$1,000. They sold three dwellings,.
Nos. 29o0. 2a22. 1924 West Main TO W.
]. Gilman for $4,000; two farms near
Laurel for $1,000 10 Upshur Creery and
s. T. Parkinson, respectively, and
Park Avenue and Elm Street corner
to ]. B. Kirk for $4,000
The holders OF suburban property
tell Of some very fine sales in Gintcr
Park. Barton Heights. Highland Park
Forest Hin, and other suburbs, but
they refuse to disclose the particulars,
and the man OF news can only take
their word for the general fact
One of the most prominent of the
spectators said to the man Of news
yesterday: I'VE spectators are oft the
market for the present, but don't you
forget it. we will be in the swim right
largely before the frost comes" a
bystander, who overheard this remark,
said: Yes, I hear the banks have ar
ranged to loosen up Just before the
first frost" Put this and that to-
Eether and make Your own story.