The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-04
Realty
.ts
Times Changes.
The Protecting Attorney.
Loughborough.
Ninety Years Ago.
By ROBERT LESLIE BELLEMI

Real Estate Editor. Herald and Times.
THE magic wand of time has
produced many a change, but
none more pronounced than that
which revolutionized the real es-
tate business, it's manners and
morals, within the short space of
Q few fleeing years.
This was brought out the other
day in a short talk with j. A.
McKeever, of McKeever and Goss,
local realtors. Mr.. McKeever's
attitude toward his chosen call
ing is one of the clearest indica-
tons Of the strides taken by those
In the real estate field the writer
has encountered in some time. 1t
Is summed up in the dictum
enunciated at a real estate board
meeting in Tulsa, Okla, about
. year ago at which the writer
vas present: "Yesteryear, one
spoke of being in the real estate
game today one is a realtor!'
WHAT a world OF difference
there is in those two view
points-on the one side, the term
ing of the calling a game; on
the other, Identifying it by one
Of the most stately names ever
coined, "reaItor!' Yet across this
tremendous chasm has the real
estate calling leaped in the course
or so short q term OF years.
Nor has the leap been one
purely Of appellation. In keep
1nGzwith the change OF terms has
come a parallel Improvement in
the manner with which the real
estate business IL conducted.
MR.. McKEEvER, who has not
always been in the real estate
ned, sees clearly the effect this
change has produced in the client
VINO perforce must deal through
the real estate man, willy-nilly.
Armed to the teeth with legal
chntcalities-some of them not
always for the good Of the pros
pective purchaser-the man who
played the real estate game" was
met, az though upon q field of
battle, by the client whose shield
was q legal advisor. The attor-
ney's thin cloak that represented
him merely as a disinterested third
party bent merely upon adjusting
the niceties Of deed and title did
not wholly fail to disclose his true
role-that Of bulwark upon which
the client depended against the
willy and not always strictly eth
teal practiseS Of the real estate
"gamester."
THOSE days are gone forever.
Legal third parties have been
from the modern BUSH
ness. transaction between realtor
and purchaser. The modern real
tors offices are not dens Of de-
ception nor are they peopled by
shadows Of the shady. The nice
ties of deed and title are now ad- !
iusted by the realtors own corps
Of legal technicians-andt the pur-
chaser has no fear that he Is be-
Ing judiciously gypped. To the
contrary, he has the utmost con-
iidence in the man with whom
be Is dealing-a man who regards
his J. calling almost in the light
Of a profession-a man who Is |
Jealous of his integrity as ply
sician, d surgeon, or an attorney
the realtor.
THERE is wealth Of import !
= in the statement issued from
Allan z. Walkers office this
GAt4
In this section. The develop
nent project shortly to be got
ten under way at Loughborough
promises, upon its face, to have
A more stimulating effect upon
the communities in the vicinity |
than anything of the natv% |
undertaken. AS
matter of bald fact. there seems
10 be no previous precedent
with which to draw comparisons !
THERE is in the possession Of
= G. w. Hansen, vice president
md general manager of the Do
yer Corporation of this city,
volume published in 1884 on
deal plans for small detached
houses. 1884 is not yet a CEN
fury behind us, yet to US mod
srns-used as we are now to
The comforth Of advanced plumb
ng, heating, construction, dec
,ration, and the countless thou
sand other incidentals which go
20 make up the average per
sons personal comfortable plans
yiven in Mr.. Hansen's book might
lust as well have been handed
Town from the stone age!
Imagine, IL you can, nearly
In entire page devoted to a pro.
,ound discourse upon the cues.
ion of whether the prospective
.enant would not prefer an out
house away from his domicila