The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-04-22
Sanford Man Says
No Better Investment
Than Real Estate
Has Made His Pile and Declares
That There Is Much Money In
Florida Lands

(Rambler, in Sanford Herald.)
Attracted by the band and other
noises | wandered out to Sanford
Heights or Markham Park or what
ever they call it to attend the auc-
, tion sale and while standing there
watching the crowds in their at
tempt to get something for nothing
1 engaged a prominent Sanford man
in conversation. He has made his
pile and most Of it on Sanford real
estate, so the rumor goes and | ask
ed how he obtained his start or the
idea that there was money in real
estate and he replied as follows:
Il would repeat as nearly as i
can remember the words my mother
spoke to me as she bade me good
bye when l was leaving home to
| take my cold plunge into the world.
; Her parting advice was: IF you are
able to save any money put it into
land, which God made and which
the schemers cannot take away
from YOU. never forgot her ad-
/ vice and consider the best and
most profitable of my investments
! to be those in land or having their
security based upon land"
1t requires no argument and no
especial experience to appreciate
! the truth of what that mans mother
told him. She was a poor woman
with limited opportunities but the
truth was so plain that her in
stincts seized it.
If You put your heard earned mon
ey into real estate you are making
the safest of all investments. But
there is no investment which is safe
if it is not intelligently made
There are "schemers" often in the
real estate business and men DO
lost money through their schemes.
We should all beware of them.
II you buy stocks or bonds or an
interest in d business or make al
most any other investment save in
the land, you are obliged to take
some ones else's opinion almost en-
tirely concerning the value and
: safety of your investment. But in
real estate, the facts are as plain
TO YOU as to anybody else il
YOU will take the trouble to look
into them. In almost every other
: investment you have to let SOME
ONE ELSE Judge for you.
If you buy real estate in a local.
ity with which you are acquainted
, you will almost surely be safe. Get
, all the information you can from
: others, but protect yourself by get.
= ting all the facts yourself and form
= ing your own opinion.
z, A real estate investment not onl,
/ Yields a safe and a comfortable re-
e turn, but it stimulates the habit o.
, saving. 1t helps to give us stability
: A great majority Of those families
which have obtained an independ
e ence through saving have begun thu
e good work by an investment in rea
t estate; usually by buying a home
- In hundred ways 1t is desirable
i for you to own your own home
n both in your own interest and il
s that of the general community.
$ helps you to take a greater nteres
4 in your city or town government
4 because you seem to have a create
r stake In good government.
: 1t is not true that you pay NOR
taxes after you own your own hous
than you did while you paid rem,
for the rent payer pays the take
on the house. Yet you get the ia
bill IL your own the house and 70
KNOW that you are paying tn
tax. while the rent payer often fol
=, gets that HE too pays the tax.
=, The next few years will probabl
- see a great boom in real estate
:, The losses in stocks and bonds whic
!, people have suffered during recer
years tend to turn their minds t,
!, wards real estate. II will be a MOI
:. popular investment. The comm
:. liberalization of our railroads an
:. the interurban street railway lin,
will make it easier for men to wor
- in the city and live in the countr
- 1t is in the country that the in
pulse to own our own home is Il
strongest. We become more a
tacher to the soil. We like the ga
a. den. The neighborhood has an a
~ traction of its own that is unknov
i'S in the city. We know our ne.gnpo
~ better and like them better.
f., What present does sensit
ny woman appreciate more than I
VI gift of a home from her husban
.. 1t is twice blest. 1t blesses hi
vi that gives and her that takes"
satisfies a primeval instinct in ma
III who has struggled in war and pea
an to own a part of the earth itsel
'rk Because ii is natural it is wise a
LAT right.
dyi
Ike
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