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Show HEW ML PAPER GOOD INVESTMENT "Call a good decorator and tell him to repaper this house and go over tho woodwork with one coot of paint, and put a little varnish on the floors. Plc:c a reliable man and tell him to do the best job he can for ?50, and then 111 sell this house for $200 more lhan you could get otherwise. That investment of $30 will net you $150, and you will realize on It immediately." This was tho advice given by an Ogden real estate dealer who was commissioned com-missioned to sell a bungalow a few days ago, and the advice was accepted and proved sound. "My client wanted to sell his place for $2,000 and his Idea of what tho place was worth was just about right. It was a well built dwelling and hal been occupied little more than a year, but with dingy wall paper and marred woodwork, a vacant house surely & an unattractive proposition, and it is surprising what a dln'ereuee new paper pa-per and a little paint will do. "The same proposition holds good with renting a house," ho said. "I always prefer to rent a house before the old tenant moves out because if the furnishings are at all tasteful, the appearance of the house is so much better that there can be no comparison. compari-son. Even In largo transactions, the average man is influenced by small details, and this characteristic of human hu-man nature Is shown in the real estate business as much as in any other line. "The buyer or tho man about to rent might set himself to thinking that for so much expenditure the general gen-eral appearance of a house could be made to conform with his requirements as to attractiveness, but, at first glance, he does not reason with tho matter at all Hemerely takes noto ef the fHCt that certain features are amiss that the walls are soiled; the paint dull and the varnish marred, and he is Influenced against the deal without knowing just why." TheEe statements illustrate a part of the work of a successful real estate man, and tho man who made them is easily ranked among the most successful suc-cessful In Ogden. If a house or flat Is vacated and in appearance It is a little run down, the enterprising agent mokes sure immediately that it Is put right. |