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Show I OWNING OR RENTING VOIR HOME THERE IS A DIFFERENCE There is something about owninr home that is hard to explain; some restless fundamental craving thnl it meets; some magical change it eff in the character. It is iribred in us to want an abiding place, one of our very own. Almost any one that can pay rent can buy a home, and he usually can eel a hetter house than he rents. I do not mean that he can buy a house for the same price he rents; nor that it always figures cheaper to buy than j to rent. But the home owner gets ' more. The things he is adding are the things the renter does without. Anyway, figures do not tell the story. A man can show figures to prove that is cheaper for him to pay 80 a month rent than to buy a 84000 house and pny seven per cent for the money. It is and yet if he buys the house, nine to one, in five years he will be worth $2000 more than if he had kept on renting. There are lots of people sorry they used bad judgment judg-ment in buying or building, but very few are sorry they own their homes. It does not take much money. The trouble is, most people postpone it until un-til they can get just exactly what they want and that usually puts it on the other side of Jordan. It you have found a place you think you want and wish to give it the final test, try to sell it. Get an option at the lowest figure yoti can, nn agreement agree-ment that the owner will sell it to I you at a certain price within two weeks. Then advertise the place for sale at fifty dollars more than your option, and take out every inquirer. ; You will he asked questions you never ' thought of, and will hear objections that you never imagined. fs there a light on the back porch? Are the studding two-by-fours? Are I the joists braced? v.an mice get into i the pantry ? Why aren't the front steps wider? Why did you ever have lit painted that color? Do you think anylnnly with a spark of pride would ' live in a house just across the street ( from thnt? If the halt had only been placed two feet further east, or if the fire place was it, ene other end of ; the room, or if there was any place I in the chitmbcr fur an extra folding bed, or if the registers were in the wall instea-t of the floor Realizing the triviality of all these , objections, roti will be convinced that . even if it is not a dream o a house, ; it is far better than a renter! house. You will buy it. There muy even (e sorav risk there is in crossing the street, or just I living. But it is worth all the risks, I all the economes, all the sacrifices to 1 have some place to which you can ! turn, and win you see the light in the window, feel that peculiar thrill of, "It is my own." Willian E Ham-by Ham-by in Sunset. |
