The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-09-18
Many Folks Are Moving
to Lower Priced Homes
AS Rents Settle Down

This Is n story Of a little brown
bungalow. 10 begins once upon u
time, 10 years Ago when Tulsa was
young. As long 20 stands. 10 has
no finis. While tho tale 20 De told
IN about the bungalow Itself, re-
Elected In the Incidents that make
u are the stories ~ hundreds ~
other houses not bungalows, pcr-
hsps. Humber cottages or embryo
mansions, the Htpry-tho lurilc
story 81 q households pooEotbouE-
b. the same. The story BIZ a trlo
story. The bungalow stands on
South Dcuyor, in "a good residential
district.
Tho bungalow was modern, ns
lnodcrnity went then. not at nl
modern IN the light Of aided civiii.
nation. IL had five r"ora ana
tented for 50 e room Three years
passed by. Tho ueNt tenant paid
a dollar moro % rulm-&p NOR"
n month than had lrou demanded
from the family rSchouuor Tor
rental before. Not "striCtlv mod
oru,' to quote the fuvnrite ox-
preston of the traditional content
OF want ada, the little brown bunga-
low couldn't demand the Same
price that some other houses ala,
Tor In 1903 modern humcH demanded
HN ~ N''NNN fN'N' - NNNAH NfHNN NN
lvo more years rents had ambird
along their peaceful but up-grndc
highway and the owner of tho bum
pnlow was putting to the credit OF
his bank account $40 a month In
stead Of sos. tour years later the
bank book recorded nm entry ~
$50 a month, rent collected from The
Tenant Of the same little bungalow.
Then Came the War.
NNAaV 4. NnN u WH..l.. ..... .. Na.Ls
getting Into tho war that II had no
time to think OF rents. Twelve
dollars a room Tor the bungalow
What difference did 10. make what
II was7 In W. years time 81 "A
room had been added TO the rental
ana when the winter that brought
peace came, the financial impor-
lance Of the littlc brown house had
swollen from itH modest $50 status
OF 1906 10 that OF $50, iiut, In the
classic language of the black face
comedian, you amt heard nothln'
yet For h. one more year rents
had continued to truycl right along.
and the bungalow graduated into
the 500 class. This was last winter.
This is the climax Of the story.
This winter the bungalow viii
draw down the comparatively
modegt salary Of $50 FOR lta owner.
W nat Il tlNt OF lIlH bNilNllNW ~
comparatively true Of othor houses
and apartments In Tulsa. But the
finis,-thc part Ia which they set
To down and live uncvCntfully ana
happily ever nftcr-huHn't come
set,
No More Drops Soon.
Generally speaking. rents viii be
from 20 TO 20 per cent less this
winter than they were last. People
are asking whether or not they will
come down further get They won't,
until public service corporations
extend improvements. This IL TIA"
opinion OF several men verscd in
Tul a real estate and conditions
determining It's value.
There = now 5000 lots. well
located and favorable for building
purposes but that cannot be pul
to that use for lack OF public i'm.
provemenis, according - ABBOTT A.
Nelch. The average man who wants
n homo Is going To think a long
time before he builds upon n >-tc
out ldo the public service limits,
and upon n location that win not
nssur him that he a have plumb
ing. llghtE n telephone. II cN-
tontipn Of improvements should be
made Immediately. so that builders
on these lots could be certain OF
modern equipment for their homes
to the extent that they would
build, rent would be cut 80 Ia per
cent more, this firm believes.
And they won't be cut dntll some
thirg Ike this does happen,
The question OF rents Ia simply