| Show DONT KID YOURSELF it is co common nution to hear the expression 1 I wont build now low as cost of construction is too high 11 fil incomes cOlnes me to as its much lii higher glier in proportion today aa ws is coat coa of construction and the mail man who uses ills his head lead and does not demand every blew contraption hint that an tilt architect or contractor can call propose for his house can call build with ills his present day income and lieve a it larger margin left than would liabo been possible in 1913 dont blame blanie the present building costs entirely on oil to lumber himber till and labor remember that in ill nine cases out ut of ten your ideas of I 1 what you want willit have expanded with your income I 1 and you would not be satisfied fied today with the 1913 bungalow taxes at tit insurance nince at tit 30 repairs and land upkeep at tit and 7 per cent elit c interest on oil a it house amounts to it year if you pay pity 50 a 11 month rent for nine years you have worth of rent receipts receipt A worth nothing if you put 50 a it month into a it home ton fo D live five years even if it was necessary to cut ou our a it few theatre parties or clot lies to make moke up interest etc until the property was paid for you would have an asset worth probably more inore than at the end of nine ysais y ais and your family would have a roof over its licad head which could not be taken away from them for failure to pay a month months s rent dont kid yourself you can own a it homo as well today as you could ten years ago if you want to it is not the cost of building an that will prevent you it is the cost of satisfying your inflated demands for luxuries and modern extravagances that prevents most people from building |
