The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-01-25
Much Activity of Its
Kind, and All Agents
Are Cheerful.
HOME SEEKERS ARE
MUCH TO THE FRONT
Numerous New Deals That Have
Been Hung on the String-This
Is Construed to Mean Much
Business in Near Future.
Facts About That
String.

actually closed last week did not aS-
greGate any great shakes. as com
pared with some other weeks In tho
past, there was more activity among
the agents and the investors and home
seekers than has been noticeable for
several weeks. There were all kinds
of inquiries, and one can hardly meet
an agent on the street who does not
say he has hung some good things
on the string. things that he Is NOR
ally certain will load to much ceiling
and buying in the not far distant
future. This business OF hanging on
the string" was quite active last week,
and while there are somo who may
smile at such business. all of tho
agents know, and ALI OF the owners of
property that is for sale know, that
there must he a beginning 20 every
transaction that Is finally made. and
they all know that the hanging on
the string" Is the very first thing TO
be dono in the beginning. No man
with any kind of business gumption.
is apt to buy f. piece of real estate
the hrst time he hears OF IL or looks
at 1T 1t Is a part OF the business to
Jocity and browbeat and offer and
reoffer for period OF moro or less
days, or weeks and sometimes months.
before coming up to the scratch and
closing the deal. II Is during this
period that the deal hangs on the
string" 1t IL a dead sure sign OF big
business in the future when the in
quiries lead to the well loading of the
string. 1 know Of not less than
twenty-five deals, and some OF them
OF rather large size. that got 'on the
string last week.
Home Seekers I'm Evidence.
This activity. such rs IL was. eX
tended all over the city. and was
especially noticeable In the suburbs,
home builders arc the people who are
going to be the first to make the real
estate market very active. i hear OF
quito number OF sales of building
lots that have been made in quiet
way and without the blowing OF any
truInpetE.
An agent tells me that whenever
hear OF man buying building lot
nowadays II may be set down as
dead-sure thing that he is going TO
build right away, FOR" said ne. this
is no time, just before tax assessing
time for man to be investing in lots
TO be held for speculation, and then,
too, there is no likelihood OF seeing
any of those quick profits In vacant
lots that we heard SO much about ono.
Two and three years ago"
Business That Was Done.
There were some sales also OF homes
already built in the city and in the
suburbs. Among the agents who were
Wiling TO mention q rev sales were n.
w. Bowe a. Son, who closed several
small deals that aggregated something
worth while; II. S. Taylor a. Son, who
sold about $4,000 worth OF property,
both business and residential; J Thomp
son Brown &. Co, who closed UP deala
amounting 10 some $4,000: Charles \.
Rose Company, who counted up recent
sales (not all last weeE) to the amount
Of about $4,000; j. D. Carneal 6; Son.
who closed two deals that footed up
z @ yt-L
who made several small sales that ag-
gregated over $4,000: J. D. Cook s.
Co, who collected commissions on sales
that aggregated over $4,000; Amos
6, Co.. who made sales in the city, In
tho suburbs and out in the farming
regions, al of which went near to the
$4,000 mark; W. NJ Miller & Co, who
sold Wost End property to the amount
of moro than $4,000; Gibboncy 6:
Euckols, who have made some ideals
I'm Roseneath subdivision and in the
West End that brought in Il goodlN.
littlo pile OF commissions, and several
others. who. while refusing to give
figures of any kind. wagged their
heads and said in effect there is life
in the old land yet, and that real
estate agents are beginning to again
enjoy it In something of the good old
fashioned way.
By way of illustration it may be
said that the properties sold by one
we'll scattered. consisting Of No 2119
Grove Avenue, four houses on Chat
I'm Street. No. 4o8 West Marshall
Street, No. 91s North Second Street,
81 feet of vacant ground on Chaflin
Street. and several lots on the Peters
burg Turnpike.
DoinEs In Cintcr Park.
The Continental Public Works Com
pany. Of Now York. who were recently
awarded the contract for repairing and
putting in order the streets in Ginter
Park will begin work about the list
of March, and it is expected that this
work wiz be completed by the LIST of
July or August
I was informed at the Ginter Park
Office that at no time within 4 like
period in tho past twelve months have
there been moro inquiries for lots in
C;intcr Park than there have been
within the past week, and ] was fur
thor told that the inquiries come all
together from parties who expect to
build. There arc now under construc-
tion In Gintcr Park, n number of at
tractive homes. and there are between
$50 and 175 houses already completed.
Real Estate Exchange Busy.
For long time the Real Estate Ex-
chnnge has been working hard to get
the city ordinances changed so that
the city shall look to gas consumers
direct for the payment of gas bills,
and not to tho owners of the property
rented by the consumer. Morgan Mills,
Mt tho request of the exchange, offered
a bill In the Council to that effect, and
it was referred to tho Administrative
Board. Last Thursday the committee
from the exchange and other citizens,
both agents and property owners, went
before the Administrative Board and
tho, discussion of tho proposition was
quito interesting. o. H. Funston. N.
w. Bowe,c w. b. Pizzini, f. T. Sutton,
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