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Show FIRST MONTH SEES ! MUCH ACTIVITY IN REALTY ' Sales and Home Building Will Double 920 Total, Is Prediction - Activity in real estate durinc the month of January brara out the moat hopeful predictions aa to the 191 outlook out-look ami the year's tnifttnefta promises to upset, ail speculations, the Ahton-Jenkina Ahton-Jenkina company has announced. The mom hopeful predictions aa to business busi-ness improvement in l'ilil are fully borne out by the Januarr sales and now appear to be a certainty, Blair Ittf-hiUusun of the firm asserted. lAMt ear the A raton-Jenk Ins company com-pany sold a total of pieces of properly prop-erly including some li'tmes. or approximately approx-imately one sale for each working day. Iiy comparing the Activity lor January and the early j.:.rt of Kehriiary of ls-'l with that of I AM year there la shown a decided revival and the real estate activity of last year will he doubled in 191. air. Itichardson predw-ta. larnorance of the true status of home ownership and the lack of knowledge as to how easily one can purchase a home are two of the chief reasons for the amsting home shorrajc' In Salt , take, and as soon as the people are! educated aionr; these llnea there will no longer tie a jack of builuing aruvii. or any shortage of homes, people ejn hardly realixe, Mr. Itichardson s:ii i, that for their present rental charges they co'ild ' he purchasing- a home of. their own and In a few years have it I paid for company has prepared a series of points ! which they will ubk hereafter In ntr'tH-' lug the importance of home own- r-1 ship In the hope of rumoring condi-! ttons to normal In the building Indus-f I ry during t he ensuing year Thee . point haw been outlined by Mr. Iiich- , anlnon as follows: ! ' Home ownership Is the largest single sin-gle factor towards good citizenship and patriotism. "The security and feeling that you are the owner of a home and no one can order you out, builds fur happiness, happi-ness, contentment and prosperity. "Home owninic establishes a credit for one both locally and nationnlly that no other form of like wealth can build. "It if economically a waste to supply sup-ply a landlord with a good income by a continued rentinx hat.it. "When your monthly rental nlone will pay a landlord the value of his i home together with interest. every I eleven years and seven months, m ten ant during? nn average life buys three homes for thren landlords and all he haa to show for Ills ihtrty-five and one-half years of renting- is a bunch of rental receipts. "The largest monthly expenditure foe the maintenance of an old couple Is. their rent, if they haw fulled to btiv a home in their younger Uus. while ( on the lillu r hunA Uw only sn.iir.-a f iin'ome to manv oU foil- . f . TTI rt urpi FTT? roonin in their oh n j homes, w hu h they rent. "Th Untnh of tune looking; tiack j five .wars i MXHCtiy th n.nne as the "(minir live years. Kad one made up his mind to become a borne owner five or ten ears ago. he could have done so and had the home completely paid for by now. lo not delay another like period, as the coming; years will roll by just as fast as the past have. "iet a home now. (Jet it while you still have an earning; capacity. et it before the city in which you live grows and values increase, liet the habit of saving." |