Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING APRIL 5 1936 C 13 REAL ESTATE AND HOME Tour of Salt Lake Region Big Obstacles Will Reveal Definite Change Overcome for In Real Estate Conditions Home Builder Homes Being Built Early in Season Says Realtor Housing Shortage Apparent to All Who Seek to Rent Ites Declares Financing F H Now Man Who Wants to Build Helps for Thethe Architects’ Small House Service Bureau Inc Irregular plan gives character Easy A Learning From British By BLAIR RICHARDSON Past President Sait Lake Real Estate Association For five years Salt Lake City has had very little home WASHINGTON April 4— The dismanbuilding During that period more houses have been torn down criminating and eager interest a ifested number by rapidly growing than have been constructed but now conditions have changed of thinking business men dn the difand a ride around Ihe city will convince anyone of that fact Wherever you go now one may-sea home being built still it is hardly spring By June hundreds ot hordes will be under construction Practically all of these homes will be built to order for an owner and very few will be built for specula- e ’roperty Bought With Vets’ Bonus tion Exempted in NY ficult problems connected with the Improvement of housing conditions and the stimulation of the building Industry represents ons of the moot hopeful signs in our country today according to Stewart McDonald federal housing administrator “Every day’s mail Is bringing to us thoughtful suggestions- of able business men who have become interested and concerned with this problem" Mr McDonald said “The number of these letters which indicate that their writers have been studying the English experience is most encouraging The writers rec ognize that-thEnglish experience with the problems has extended over nyre than SO years and that both the government and private citizens of this country can learn much from this experience Studying Situation "The federal housing administration has been carefully studying the English situation with the purpose of making application in this country of every bit of experience Which is applicable and of making the necessary modifications in those policies which proved successful in England to adapt them to American conditions “We realize that the principal Plan Requires Careful Study PICTURESQUE BUNGALOW IN MEDITERRANEAN STYLE Construction Neighborhood Cost Vital Factors Feature of the exterior of Jjow wails gable design roof with close cornice arched entrance casement windows batten Shutters chimney at front rear porch with arched Details openings Few houses turn out t° be everything the home builders hoped they would be Some are not good houses by any method of measure yet everyone intends to build welL Why do we miss 7 Features of the interior: Vestibule with coat closet fireplace In lnglenook flanked by double high backed seats French doors in living and din-drooms opening on porch plaster archways from living room to vestibule and dining room two bedrooms bath two linen closeta opening from hall grade entry with stairs to basement at rear pantry Detailed building documents for the houses shown in this aeries may be secured at moderate cost through the Home Building Editor of this paper This service is presented to our readers through with the Architects' Small House Service Bureau ag Every house Is a problem in Itself that Is not solved by any general formula Yet we can set down some good rules that housing experts use They begin with the lot They say the neighborhood must be good Now your opinion and the experts about a certain neighborhood may vary widely You will see friends character of people schools street cars He will see these also but in addition he will see "trend" Is the neighborhood Improving or going down? If it is going down the new home building starts off on the wrong foot It begins to be a house not entirely good The next attention of the housing expert goes straight to the house plan He does not like kinks He does not like the unusual His Idea that experiments of this and other kinds should be left to those who can afford mistakes A good house plan has space divisions well designed for use and with satisfactory relations between them Bathrooms do not open from living rooms or from bedrooms but from halls Doorways are not cluttered up with fireplaces to stumble over The business of upholstering should houses with fancy be reserved for the speculator who thinks that is the way to a customer’s heart The man who builds for himself does not have to struggle with this trash The man who buys can get advice Good appearances ave values that carry through generations Mortgage lenders do not like houses that people leara to Home selling in Salt Lake has beEvery day realtors receive telephone calls asking if they have a home to rent Most Of the time realtors apologetically 'Commission Rules That say “We are sorry we haven’t a vacant house" Then over the teleService Men Need phone comes “Oh dear the house Not Pay Levy we are living in has been sold What are we going to do?" Not So Favorable NEW YORK CITY N Y—War When'' Salt Lake went through a This distinctive bungalow should have a veterans who elect to invest the prosimilar period in the early twenties De strong appeal to the builder looking for GenerousJLiving Room terms for purchasing a home were ceeds from their bonus bonds in individually in his home It has a beauty not as favorable as they are now either home or business properties and picturesqueness which will increase lightful Feature of Deand interest rates were higher At intthis stte will be exempt from with the years aa Its colors soften and -6 that time land values were higher sign mellow and a background of trees and and state county general municipal than at present and plans for home shrubs grows up around it Low well probuilding more expensive than they taxation according to a recent rulportioned gables arched entrance and are today Banks mortgage loan ing by the tax'commission chimney in close association and shutters - jg-- r building societies and companies The decision was reached after a advantageously placed contribute largely for realtors are all seeking outlets to the success of the design series of Inquiries had been received buildfunds Companies handling on the matter The American LeNot only its generous size but the ingle-noing materials are anxious to sell gion which is vitally Interested in containing fireplace seats and bookthem and mechanics are anxious to its members invest their cases and the battery of windows at one having work All in all we have never be- bonus money in sound projects proroom end help to make the living room the fore had as many factors favorable moted the Inquiries A recent quesis The porch accessible it place pleasant to home building as at present tionnaire sent to 42000 veterans reboth from living and dining room? may be Just how long all these favorable vealed that 25 per cent of them inleft open for summer use (done or glazed conditions will last no one knows tend to invest their bonus proceeds for year around service do realtors one of course but thing in building new homes or modernis' around a small hallway the Grouped land values know and that is that alL possible privacy ing their present ones A large have In quarters of source sleeping Engmortgage money will probably not be as low again Indicated their intention of land Is building societies which corBroad wardrobe closets in each room proV during our lifetime vide generous storage capacity within a financing homes under the single respond to building and loan assoSometimes a large department mortgage system of making imThe working minimum of floor space in this these ciations country that store stocks up for a spring or fall provements on the modernization drawings provide for a partial basement market and in doing so buys too credit plan of the federal housing societies have within recent toyears dislike but this may be completely excavated to add reduced their interest rate ft i y many dresses cloaks or hats As administration include an amusement room if deilred Construction Every home builder such inducement as they can to atthe end of the season draws near Deputy Tax Commissioner Daniel tract homo buyers into the market Construction: Hollow tile walls exterior says "Build it right" Good plans in order to clear their shelves they R and good specifications and good inSpratt wrote Maurice Stember finish stucco tUe roof we have also discovered that put on sales To be sure people department adjutant of the Amer- but tentions are not enough Poor buildHome building questions will be answered these societies protect themselves as will buy their wares they reduce ican I ers wreck them The dub who makes Legion that the commission to interest rate by certain provisions and Detailed without furnishing charge prices away below real values and had ruled that real property pur- in a fizzle of working on your car is scheme the color for enable their which dining suggestions mortgages the people who buy the goods profit chased with the of bonds them to recall their funds or to proceeds to Write room shown as be will represented in every branch of the supplied from their purchases to be Issued in settlement of the raise the interest rate in case ecobuilding business The high grade the Home Building Editor of this paper '5 4' Similar Conditions veterans’ ’adjusted compensation nomic conditions warrant able men are there also The exena stamped enclosing ' Of course no one buys up a lot claims comes within the provisions perts say hire good contractors velope in Difference Markets of building sites and attempts to of the tax laW which provides for have' their work inspected by able The ATchlterta ' Smalt Houm Copyright 18JS "We also realize that many things Sefvtra Bureau Inc architects That’s the way te get market them tfcje same as' a store exemption from rsaHestate taxes can be done in i?v p good construction manager does hut dprig- good up to the amount of money in- concentrated in a mortgagefewmarket instirelatively The first thing on the list is placed times many subdivisions are placed vested in property which is the proDINING ROOM-DESI- GN last We place it last because it is on the market and some people ceeds of a bonus a pension or in- tutions that cannot be' done when Model Home Visited market is widely scattered such a grievous subject Money! For the furniture In this dining purchase home sites and then find surance paid - by the United States the out later they 'nannot use them government Application for this among 48 states and among & great jGood plan good appearance good room oak or chestnut would be in of 3000 in institution that opBy construction in good neighborhood Along come quiet times — lack of exemption must be made at the local many types erate under different conditions and keeping with the style of the house amount to nothing if wa cannot pay demand for land and the building tax office cani one and in these woods usually practices site owners desire to sell In order for them Financing plans are not “Above all the difference In ecoOhio— A recently as various as methods of construcCOLUMBUS to sell they reduce their prices far find the simple sturdy cottage furnomic progress and living standards same below the true value of their land Sale Gains Follow As winter snows thaw anf spring any conventional type hardwood niture most fitting and appropriate completed “model home” in this city tion but they seem to have the in the two countries cannot be overDo and buyers have am opportunity to for Ameri- to wrong going in capacity large the wide or two 3000 visitors in early flooring more than drew Remodeling of Store looked The great expansion of sub- nears many home owners are prob- can- manner is frequently used this Mediterranean type bunganot borrow more than you can pay profit by purchasing ' urban areas and the new era of ably considering the possibility of low Colors in such an interior are 4ays after it was opened for inspec- back do not pay excessive interest The cycle of decreasing land valConcrete floors tile or composition ues is now behind us sales price PHOENIX Ariz— A material In- home ownership In this country building a sunroom as a part of materials are sometimes desired rightfully warm and cheerful not tion W E Gaston the builder or discounts reductions have stopped in many crease In sales is reported by the came after the end of the war with their home We have advised home builders to Linoleum in a number of brilliant delicate but somewhat strong In icompleted the residence and offered ' cases they are higher today than Daniels Jewelry company with the extensive building of highways have their home building programs of homes throughout colors and designs is popular in tone to Hundreds availwas backsale it that for it adequatfe stating provide they were a yer ago but never stores here' and in Tucson follow- and with the widespread ownership the country have been so con- many homes by their local federal housable to the purchaser under terms of analyzed ground for the substantially theless there are land bargains to- ing a recent remodeling project on of automobiles These forces began structed as to conveniently allow administration We advise it should ing for sunroom Curtains profurnitur to operate hs early as 1810 but realsigned the federal housing administrat- again strongly Even though one their properties day for those who want to build additions at little cost vide adequate privacy without keepWalls— Plaster moderately rough became a major factor in Ameri- such More does not intend to borrow through is desirable to ing out light air or view Venetian in texture Building activity this summer will According to officers of the stores ly it In such projects tan warm a stip- ion’s single mortgage system painted eliminate most of today’s good buys modernization has resulted in a 40 can life after the war 3000 visitors responded to an one of the F H A accredited loaning than windows on three sides of the blinds frequently are found effective have “These forces are now asserting pled lightly As a matter of fact a heavy building per cent sales increase in Tucson invitation published in a local news- agencies use this plan You may be sunroom French doors instead of in decorating sunrooms Trailing Ceiling— Similar to walls shocked to find your pet ideas not program this summer may elimi- and a 70 per cent sales increase in themselves in England where high- the usual windows will make the vines potted plants flower boxes paper Many visitors came from tone in walnut Woodwork— exLight are Widened and ways being nate most of the available building Phoenix distance of 50 miles to see the home so well thought of room seem a part of the garden will all add to the general decorative — Several darker shades Floor vast areas and are tended being allow sites in many desirable locations easy access to outside ter- effect In contemplating the addi- than woodwork 1936 Architects’ Small Brazil’s foreign trade Is breaking Copyright and ail the new labor saving de opened up to urban development and races and allow a maximum of tion of a sunroom it is advisable to Floor covering— Rug with backBuilding Costs families have found opened a way House Service Bureau? Inc all records to enter into the room consult an architect or competent ahd air rich light It is to be hoped that building vices are being included to make of escape from the Crowded oriental red of deep condiFunds with ground costs will retiiain os low as they work easier for the lady of the tions that exist in the center of Inv many instances it will not only building contractor pattern be decorative but a great asset on which to finance such projects may now are but the law of supply and house Curtains— Mohair with tak backEnglish urban communities Conveniences Listed be obtained from private lending demand is almost infallible - It geometric figure in green ground Changes Cited in the sunroom around which color- agencies operating under the terms red and blue Glass curtains of Some homes are including air works night and day The chances “No one more be federal is of administraful the concerned with grouped are that building next fall and conditioning Insulation and the lat furnishings may housing coarse net although these may be winter will be higher than this est in automatic heating equipment the stimulation of heavy industries Flooring for gunrooms may becf tion’s modernization credit plan omitted entirely acof building One Furniture — 1 Chairs If the exspring improvement in present through the growth federal-housinad‘ There is nothing to Indicate for building over that of past years tivity than is the pense is not too great these might the present at least that money for is that each home now under con- ministration The lengthening of have seats upholstered either in building purposes will become less struction is being erected for an mortgage terms the consequent rebrown or in red leather or velvet 2 Buffet plentiful in the next few months owner and each and evCry home duction in monthly payments necesbut many are forecasting that in is an Individual unit with features sary under a mortgage and the 3 Oblong table ' More No Sawdust So Isn’t Say It ' terest rates will go up again 4Arm chair to match side arrangement of rooms finish etc elimination of all secondary finanto more to build?" “Is it cost comgoing A reader Insulation its again! with attendant Realtors recommend that all who quite different from that of another cing heavy chairs but This question popping up keeps Of in are of distrust effective to our sawdust are interested in home buying tjiia home becoming charges closet plains we suspect that knows 56 China season ride around the city these iron fern stand Following the war houses were these ends A year ago practically hollow walls says they use It abroad the answer would everybody Wrought to like have us fine spring days visit the homes erected in multiple many similar no money was available for mort- In the Baltic countries Well we 7 Serving table true it isn’t We cannot say it help that are under construction to ac- to others even to lighting fixtures gage financing for terms-along as is unreliable harbors Price? are going up Carpenters will quaint themselves with what is ao and wall decorations Today each 20 years and no one could aecure a still object It not for work 50 cents foran hour tually taking place in our city home is “fit for a king" and just mortgage in excess of 40 or 50 per vermin starts wood rot The stand- ever House is still cheap building cent the of of value and this as new as other attractive different from homes features appraised Many ard insulating materials of this fair but not for long are now being built into homes the personalities of their owneA property land are not expensive and are over 4000 institu“Today lending What Is Fresh Air tions in the country are willing to splendidly effective "We have some friends who have extend as much as 80 per cent of the air conditioned their house They say Save First Build Second appraised value of the property on a they never open their window? mortgage and to give the borrower "We have never been able to save What about fresh air?" To tell the as long as 20 years if necessary to anything and have only rent re- whole truth we do not have a proper ol'V vr amortize his debt This change is ceipts to show for years of struggle definition for fresh air Outdoor city attributable to the program of the Now we would like to build and save air Is certainly not always fresh federal housing administration and money" The sum of Interest taxes In case if we seal up a house any will go a long way to stimulate home and upkeep plus savings to pay off about as well as we ever do We building abd home buying and the the debt are greater than ordinary about two complete air changes get an recovery of the construction in- rent How can a family that has hour with a wind Filtered TIRICK fulfills the builders’ needs for it answers satis-- x never been able to lay up a penny air recirculated through the house dustry" to a house building program expect is about as good air as you can get factorily every building requirement And whethet work a miracle for them? If you its use be in a simple garage a humble cottage jot an cannot save you cannot build There Copyright 1936 Architects’ Small House Service Bureau Inc Is no way around that simple truth NO-D-- K elaborate mansion brick fulfills its purpose as no other come quite active e ma-ori- ty 5-B- ok “do-dad- s" flii -- ” s 5-- Comforts of Home Increased By Adding Sunroom in Spring - YOUR CASTLE Built ivith BRICK Everlasting Home Builders’ Clinic s For Sale by Owner II I le MODERN I-- £ i v ) ——- 1 1- -1 fo i f i?f — 1 M V) I 1 1 1 v OFFICES t bargain rentals v In fits NEWLY ’ r ' MODERNIZED 4 1 a Distinctive m Attractive grounds ing stoker 259 12th East St residence on East Bench garage double plumb- 2-c- ar Phone Hy 5201 NESS BUILDING Controlled nnd Oporotod by H06LE INVESTMENT CO Fourteen Financial Groups Given Okeh’ MINNEAPOLIS Minn --During the past week 14 finaneja! institutions have 'applied to the federal housing administration offices here for approval as mortgagees under the national housing act This fact is cited as an indication that banks and other institutions are becoming Increasingly interested in the federal housing administration’s single mortgage system The 14 reecnt applications came from all parts of the state and was the largest number received in any pne week since the beginning of the program At the present time Winter Wage Rolls Assisted by FHA Plan BURLINGTON Vt — The J L Norton company local dealers in fuel supplies and equipment has been able to maintain a full force of employes throughout the winter because of business financed by the housing administration’s modernization credit plan according to John L N efr ton president The winter sales consisted principally of oil burners federal there are 337 (No Decoy) Will Protect Your Home Against For BRICK is first of all permanent BRICK is easily and readily obtainable in every local--it- y BRICK is handled skillfully and effectively by mechanics everywhere BRICK suggested to the architect finds him eager and able to carry out any building plan material will B TERMITES and DECAY Ask for Particulars For Information SALT LAKE PRESSED BRICK COMPANY Salt Lake City Utah OGDEN approved mortgagees in Minnesota 150 of which have submitted applications for mortgage insurance by the federal housing administration BURLEy PRESSED BRICK TILE CO Ogden Utah BRICK & & SAND CO Burley Idaho Call or Write: UTAH FIRE CLAY CO Salt Lake City Utah LEEK BRICK COMPANY ' Ogden Utah' 8MITHFIELD BRICKCOMPANY Smlthlield - It-T- Utah " ’ |