The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-30
Birmingham Building During TlOeUe Months
TRANSFER MEN EXPECTING RECORD BUSINESS MONDAY AS MOVING DAY MAKES BOW
"For Rent" Signs At Pre-
 mium On Desirable Dwelling
 Property As Home Owners
 Club Gains New Members

Monday is moving day and transfer men are looking for more business than they have had in years for the moving season. Numbers of families who will vacate their present resi- dences have bought or rented or built new homes and the transfer of household goods has been going on as fast as the new places are com pleted.
 Except for the unprecedented pros porous times of 1920 when for rent" signs were practically unknown in Birmingham, the present late summer sees fewer of these in evidence than, possibly. any time in the history of the city. Practically confined to houses erected for rental purposes and showing on them for but a few days, the for rent signs are found only on property which. compared to the classes of houses now being built, are considered more or less undesira- ble.
 But despite the fact that many new places have been partially equipped as they neared competitor, the fact remains that numbers will be moving from the houses they have been oc- cupying and Monday and Tuesday are scheduled to be unusually busy days. For eseeing -he rush, transfer compa- nies have added to their rolling stock
 
 meet the emergency Already they an nounce large increase in business over last year for many disregarded the few remaining days of leases and preferred to get into their newly built homes while the equipment for the move was available.
 Apartment houses have leased praC- tically every available flat of a de- sirable character and there are few If any, despite their quality, or lack of it. to be had. Apartment houses in course of construction are re- ported to have enough applications for their accommodations to start business at 100 per cent capacity the minute they open their doors.
 Real Estate Men Busy.
 Practically all real estate firms doing a rental business announce that all they had visited have been filled and many have long waiting lists. particularly the desirable sorts. Transfer companies say that though it be true they have booked the larg- est business they have known,4 that they are prepared to handle even more.
 Real estate firms visited Saturday stated their rental business this year shows the greatest business they nave recorded in the great demand In par tieular, Houses that rent from $50 to | $70 a month are wanted, tho bunPa- low type always being in high de- mand. Tn fact the bungalows and flats in desirable apartment houses indicate that these two classes of rental property will constitute the great majority of investment build Ing in the future, for the other types are taken only when where there is nothing else to be had.
 In the past four years nearly 1O,- GOO new dwelling houses have been built in Birmingham and of the num- Der not one is believed to be for rent today. This is accommodation for 50. 900 persons, estimating families at five persons to the family It is con- sidered adequate substantiation of tha citys claim of growing at a rate of more than 10000 people a year.
 Means Added Houses.
 Real estate men point out that in almost all instances these mean added houses. for the instances are rare when an old house is pulled down to more the case in Birmingham than in any other city because the com munity is spreading out, opening up and developing new territory in all directions and not contenting itself with merely improving areas. Almost every new house means an addition al house and just that much more accommodation. but the demand is way over the supply
 While the disagreeable features of moving are not to be avoided. the facilities offered by the modernly equipped transfer companies Ire such that moving has been saved from many of it's former distresses and the time consumed, because of the advent of the motor vehicle. especially those built for the purpose, has relieved the annual "trial' of much of it's former distress. Many of the great trucks handle the entire, furnishings of small home at one load. maE4 their trip to the new house in fev minutes and so take part in the nov ing of many families in a single day, where formerly it was an all-day af- to handle one ordinary households re- moval.