Show I j I I TO REAL ESTATE DEALERS The business advertisement of a well known Denver real estate dealer tells a remarkable story and one which should have its influence on our own dealers The gentleman referred to has been in business six years covering the big boom period of the Colorado capital and he announces that he has four things to be proud of It is the story of these four things which should have its influence for good on real estate dealt rs generally and especially on those in boom towns The first of the things is that during the six years the real estate sales in his office have aggregated several million dollars That is something to be proud of first because it tells of reliability and trustworthiness and of many commissions Unless fn aent is trustworthy no matter how enterprising he may be he cannot continue con-tinue in business six years and ran his transactions up into the millions The second thing of which the agent is proud is the fact that he has never had a property refused on account of the title offered In other words he has been careful to examine titles and see that they were good before he has offered the land for sale To do this Is essential to continued success in the business but there are real estate agents who do not care whether the title is good or bad so long as they can get the money from the purchaser They willIe will-Ie him take care of the title and it sometimes happens that after getting get-ting through with the agent the buyer has to go to the trouble and expense of a lawsuit to obtain what the agent assured him he hnda good title The third thing of which the Denver man is proud we will state in his own words I have never failed to buyback buy-back at an advance when offered any property sold through my office This i is the kind of booming we like It j has the merit of honesty and sincerity nbout it nnn fl1lnhhMI thl 11111 n1onf I I I n r imaginable that the boomer is something some-thing besides a confidence chap engaged In cheating and swindling They dont all misrapresent and lie as to the value of property offered for gale but there are a good many agents who are not above deceiving a stanger and inducing him to pay two or three times what a property pro-perty ia worth It may be enterprising and sharp to sell a lot for double its value but if the sale was brought about by misrepresentation and falsehood the l enterprise l 1 and sUroWafiCS3 f are little else than roguery The real estatO fig 9t I who is prepared to back his represii I tation as to the value of property with the offr to purchase the land at the price for which he sold it sho vs his own good faith in his doings nd here is the Denver mans fourth declaration Last January I offered in the daily papers for ten days to buy back everything I had sold in the six proceeding years together with taxes and twelve 12 per cent per annum interest and nothing was offered me I I then offered for hve days eighteen IS percent per-cent per ancum only one pair of cheap lots was offered which 1 bought in paying 18 per cent per annum interest for three years and sold at an advance of one hundred Collars + ICO above that the next day GenHemen how is that for a record I How many of you are pursuing pursu-ing a course which will enable you to se s much at the end of sir years TIIK HERALD hopes yon are all doing it and that s > x years hence every real estate dealer in Salt Lake will be ready and able to offer to buy all the property he has sold paying pay-ing therefor the original cost price twelve percent Interest and the taxes If the dealers will th exercise the earc I the judgment j > Cttd the Intelligence that they should In their business they will six years from now to fee in a position ye do as the Denver agent does for they will not misrepresent a property or 11 for the Sl ere of the com boom one mission So far only fair prices have I been asked and paid We have heard of no sale which the seller ought not to I be willing to buy back at an advance It is to be hoped that this will continue and if it shall there will come no deplorable collapse to our boom and the plorable the nntusnffermfrom community will not suffer from the inflation of values |