Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-02-18
TO PROPERTY OWNERS.

DOME DI you nave AdN yIDpETLg DA
the market for three years without
a purchaser. Things have been
tough throughout the. country and
real estate everywhere has been de-
pressed. Do not expect real estate
10 double in value AMI that you will
be able 10 get 4 customer in a minute
at the raised price. The springs en-
terprlge will be wonder which II IL,
81 1t produces ready market in a
few months Tor real estate at the
price II has been offered II will do .
that and do II quick. But do not get .
excited and raise your price beyond
reach and then complain becauge the
proposed development does not afford
you buyer quick.
The quickest az to kill real estate
activity ig for owners TO Iaise prices
excessively before activity begins. If
they do, activity will never begin.
Raising real estate values does not
make city. Development makes it,
and as development proceeds, values
naturally increase, usually keeping a
little ahead OF the development.
The greatest harm TO the Rogue
River Valley Is that owners have
done more TO raise values than to
raise crops. Raising land will never
bring prosperity. Raising crops and
developing along solid lines will
bring 1t and hold It 80 long as values
do not go far ahead OF development.
This iS simply warning that own
ers may not rctard the splendid pros
perity tnat will come to Ashland and
the valley during the year. The no.
ton that real estate IL worth all you
can get for II IL deluBion, and If
citizens act on that theory they will
greatly retard prosperity and activ-
ity.
Real estate 10 absolutely bad in
yestment at a price that will not pro-
duce adequate returns on the invest
meRi-when prices reach that stage
people Of good judgment will pass It
by and only the "ran;est suckers"
will be left In the market While
there iB sucker" born every min
ute, as the saying goes, they are
found to be entirely too few to sup
ply the demand, and the community
goon is transformed into a locality
with suckers" owning the land at
an exorbltant prlce--a price that the
land will not produce adequate re-
turnB-growlng discouraged-letting
the land 20 back to rack and ruin
and sitting idly about looking for
bigger sucker" to take the deal off
their hands.
That is exactly the method NOT to
build up a community.
The writer has no sympathy with
such. for they are unfair and not
worth to tho community powder and
lead enough 10 blow them out"
II you want to sell. put reason
s+''' - y'' Fphi pibDtlAg anu LUe
springs development will produce a
purchaser, who not only will buy, but
will SnbstantialIy improve the land
and add that much TO substantial de-
vclopment.
II you 10 not want to sell reason
ably, then do not cucumber the mar
ket with an unreasonable offering.
The writer has had some expert
ence In hendling real estate. lie
found II wise and profitable abso-
lutely 10 refuse 10 list offering at an
exorbitant price. Real estate men
should not be expected 10 find suck
erg" for real estate. II is enough
that they bring the seller and buyer
together on an equitable basis. II
the Tldlngs controlled that business
no exOrbitent offering would be list
ed. Such hurts the town.