| Show DONT KID IUD YOURSELF F it is common to hear the ex 1 I wont build now as cost of construction is too high incomes ire arc as much higher in proportion today as is cost of con st ruction and the man who w ho uses his head and does docs not demand every newfangled contraption that an ancl architect or cont contractor metor can propose for his hous acan build with his present day inco income me and have a larger margin I 1 left eft than would have been possible in 1913 dont blame the present building costs entirely on to lumber and labor remember that in ill nine cases out of ten your ideas of what you want have expanded with your income and you would not be satisfied today with the 1913 bungalow taxes at insurance at 30 repairs at upkeep at and 7 percent interest on a house amounts to a year ceaf if you pay 50 a month rent for nine years you have worth of rent receipts worth noth ing if you put 50 a month into a home for five years even if it was necessary to cut out a few theater parties or clothes to mak up interest etc until the prop arty was paid for you would have an asset worth probably more than at the end of nine yea years rs and your family would have a roof over its head which could riot not be taken away from them for faili failure lre to pay a months rent dont kid yourself you can own a home as well today as you ten years ago if you want to it is not the cost of building that will prevent you it is the cost of satisfying your inflated demands for luxuries and modern gances that prevents most people rom building |
