The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-08-12
DUXbURY WOULD
REDUCE PRICES
ONREALESTAIE
Tells Realty Dealers that Land
Should Be Marked Down
g. With Other Commodities {
FAVORS REAL ESTATE
DEALERS LICENSE LAW
Says Northern Minnesota Has
Lost Many Settlers Thru
- Haphazard Ways

F. r. Duxbury, president OF Inc
Beltrami County Realty assocla ton
made the land statesmen look hay,
when he advocated that real estate
he marked down with other CO s Dd-
tiles, in his address before the s me
sofa Realty association at t1 an
nual convention in TIL is cf 2 this
morning. #% &5. .:ii.I n 5 nv
'"Iake loss with other 6 Irch-
ants said Air. Duxbury. you
have bought at high prices, must
expect to take your MEDIC IKE
all other lines Of business \ been
compelled to do. aj !.
twenty years Of land lbi ess in
Northern Minnesota has 81 ~ me q
few ideas as to what sH !" have
been done for the new sepr1er and
what he is entitled to in the future
while developing a new farm from
stump land.
II do not believe that he needs any
assistance from state or federal gov
eminent more than is being receiv-
ed, by farmera in the Older developed
districts through Federal loan agen-
cies. He needs an even break on
those things, and to. buy his land
i'm such a way that he has chance to
make good.
"Our lands, have just as high earn
ing power when cleared, our mark
cts equals more fish in our streams
and lakes, more game in our woods,
the land boom did not hit us as hard,
building material cheaper and our
summer days longer. Considering all
Of these advantages, If he lis given q
fair chance, why should he not sue
coed Let Us see that he has this TIA
chante. sS$ ES #
"In my judgement. the first thing
he needs is a law that will protect
him in his purchase. This / believe
ca nbe accomplished by a real estate
dealers Incense law providing such a
law provides for a bond in sufficient
amount to protect the buying public,
for all monies received by the deal
ers. This will put a stop to the pet
'ty robbery now going on by many Of
. our so-called street corner curb
stoners." believe. such a law would
go long ways to establish conf
dence in the real estate dealers by
fee holders and the buying public.
Dignity the business to the extent
that it would have the respect OF all
classes. Our organization would then
he in position to do some very eff
fective work in putting the CRATER
out OF business that herds the doors
Of our offices In hopes of stealing a
customer and collecting an earnest
money payment which he usually
keeps whether he is able to deliver
the land or not. This, / think ap-
plies quite general over the state as
we'll as to the land situation in the
north. ~. g.. ~,
Northern Minnesota has lost
hundreds of new settlers that have
come into it in the past by the hap
hazard manner we have used in locat-
ing them. Our policy in general has
been to sell them without regard to
whether they had sufficient means 10
make a success or not then. Get all
the money possible on the first pay
ment, obligate them for further pay
ments before they have had time to
get their land under cultivation and
into in earning power. .
''In many cases he has found it an
uphill proposition to build shelter
for and feed his family. Let alone
making the usual annual payments
on his contract, and too often the re-
suit. has been that he has become dis
couraged, moves away, goes back to
his wife's folks and, forever more be-
comes a knocker of the most produc-
tive land that this country has left to
offer to new settlers with limited
means.
ITO protect the fee-holder of the
land you are selling, in making your
contract, provide for certain improve
ments annually, and when these i'm
prowements are madd it operates as
an extension of his annual payments.
If he makes a first payment of rs
per cent of his purchase price, erects
set of buildings and clears rs per
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