Evening Star Newspaper, October 10, 1931, Page 21

REAL FAMILIES CHECKED FOR HOME FUNCS Realtors Find Reorganized, Budgets Would Increase Purchases. | Real estate men have been peeping | into the larders of American families, examining their laundry bills and checking on the number of times the children go to the movies, in an effort to see if there are not more funds for home owning than are being di- | verted into that field at present. | ESTATE. to women and backed by figures that have nothing to do with real estate, but go into the family expenditures for es- sentials, will be distributed the morn- ing of December 1 in hundreds of com- munln}s and citles. According to Mr. Kissell: Down-Payment Bugaboo. “A great many committees, ours and | others, have decided that in a Tesump- tion of home-building runs the new blood of prosperity, but such pronounce- ments alone will nct cause people to go into real estate offices and other places and give orders for new struc- tures. Neither will such decisions send the renter out to purchase a home al- ready built and thereby make way for | rew construction “I don't think we have gone deer encugh into the problem. First of all, I don't think we have faced the down- payment problem, the bugaboo that has | kept many thousands of people in the | | renting class and has become more of a | | problem with the continuance of the | depression. “I think that there are thousands of pecple in this country today on modest THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1931 bought. at the expense of other busi- nesses. We want business to prosper, if {for no other reason than to help pay | the taxes Must Show Families Leaks. “It sounds like a small thing but in the extravagant way in which the av- | erage family spends what it takes in les the solution. If we can show enough | American families where there are leaks | that can be turned into savings, we can, possibly within six months, divert suf- ficient funds into the home buying and | building market that will be felt all | along tke line. “The dark clouds of the depression have obscured the-color ¢f the home idea. Werried, uncerta:n and gloomy, | surrounded by the often exaggerated | reports on the business situation, the | public has stopped thinking about the | neat little homes they would like to own. W:imen have stopped dreaming about bright rooms in the suburbs and men, steep=d in the whole continuity of losses that appears before them dadly, have abandoned the comfortable thoughts of equities in the land. REALTORS WILL CONTINUE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER Success of First Six Months of Board’s Organ Assures It of Permanency. The first six months of publication of the Washington Realtor, official organ of the Washington Real Estate Board, has assured its continuance as a permanent feature of the board's service, it is reported by Arthur Carr, president. The publication, in the form of a news letter from the board, carries items pertaining to the real estate business, ethics and legislation. It has brought favorable comment from realtors in different parts of the coun- try, to whom it is sent. ‘The Was Realtor was de- | signed primarily a medium of | official board and its members, but issues con- | taining matters of more general inter- communication between the | Fhill of the National Association of Real Es- :g:d?"” and many of its affiliated rds. UNION MARKET TERMINAL FACILITIES TO BE LARGER Phillips Co. to Construct $30,000 Provision Plant on Old Camp Site. Plans for the enlargement of the fa- cilities of the Union Market Terminal development in the large tract at Fifth street and Florida avenue northeast were revealed this week with an appli- cation for an additional $30,000 build- The bullding is to be a one-story brick and concrete market and provi- sion plant, to be erected for the Joseph lips Co. by the Charles H. Thomp- kins Co., builders. The building would be located at 2 Stores Planned for Georgia Ave. Two 1- brick and concrete re- an permit just filed with the trict. The Public Motor Service Co. is listed owner and L. Wagner, Inc., as the builder. REFERRED TO AS NORTHEAST’S MOST BEAUTIFUL HOMES Open for Your Inspection 1800 to 1816 C St. NE. 3 the | | RERN.ESERER B—5 : L. T. Gravatte Realtor Announces the Removal of his Offices From 927 15th Street N.W. To The Securities Building 729 Fifteenth St. N.W. On October 12, 1931 The results of the investigation | o | “Before the work of the H:over Com- show that many more families could | Incomes who could beccme home oWR- | mituas or any others can be eective | buy or build homes if they reorganized | €rs, but do not know it. They think |¢hs American public must be reminded budgets and have prompted the Na- |that they simply could not save the|ihap the home idea is still good. The tional Association of Real Estate down payment, and appealing, Urging puplic must be shown that homes can Boards to proclaim Tuesday, December |and pleading with them to do so Will | Ba haq even todsy by the family on & 1, as National Home Savings day. when | Dot produce these sums. | modest income. The public must be people throughout the country Will be | “They don't want to change thelr | convinced that although many changes urged from a new angle to me | living standards and they should not | have taken place in the centers of busi- their own landlords, Harry S. Kissell, | change their living standards. The real ness, nothing has changed the wnrmthl Springfleld, Ohio, president of the as- |estate men know that. It wouldn't be | and c-mfort and elation of home owner- | sociation, reports good for our business to have homes ' ship.” | T LT TR T T T L ST TR SRR ANy | HERE IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO BUY A BUNGALOW BARGAIN 1314 Hamlin St. N.E,, Woodridge, D. C. Reduced $1,000.00. Was $6,750 Now 5,750 8500 Cash—$50 Monthly Thoroughly reconditioned. Has hot-water heat, hard- wood floors, colonnade with boo! and china closet: built-in bathtub; cement floor; living room and dining room wainscoted; large lot: two blocks to bus and car lines, stores, schools and churches. 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