Henry P. Barbour President Real Estate Association

What Henry P. Barbour seems to be most notable for is the creation of the city of Playa Del Rey which is close to Marina Del Rey and Venice California. The company was named the “Beach Land Company”.

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Henry P. Barbour President Real Estate Association Quotes

The average Californian looks back to the year of 1769 as one of the most important dates in the eighteenth century. It marked not only the coming of the first realtor in the person of a Franciscan monk in the person of Father Junipero Serra, but signalized the beginning of California. To the realtor 1923 is almost as important, for is marks the culmination of efforts on the part of splendid presidents of the California Real Estate Association to lift a great business to the level of a profession.

Artilce: 1924 – The Day of the Realtor – An Appreciation

W.B. Stringfellow Junior Vice President and Real Estate Officer Pacific-Southwest Trust and Savings Bank Quotes

Sales of all kinds of property on partial payment plans have developed into a remarkable volume within the last two to three decades. The plan was first adopted in order to create a much larger market for certain types of household commodities, the downright purchase of which was generally felt to be beyond the limits of people of small and even moderate means.

Supporters of this plan of sale contend that where the article purchased is useful and needed, that the benefits of immediate use, possession and enjoyment fully offset any additional cost if in fact is so exist, and that particularly was the plan commendable as a means of enforced saving.

Article: Land Contracts

Dr. Herman Janss Secretary Farm Lands Division National association Realty Boards

If you would like to know a bit of history related to Dr. Herman Janss, we invite you to visit a past blog posting
entitled Agriculture Endureth Through All.

Dr. Herman Janss Secretary Farm Lands Division National association Realty Boards Quotes

America’s history is filled with the thrills of frontier life. It is a history of exploration and pioneering. For two centuries American people have been pushing westward, engaged in a struggle to conquer the wilderness.

The men who are now doing the pioneering are the farm renters who have tired of turning their earning into rent, the city folks wishing to get away from the congested industrial centers and the unhealthy tenement, and the rural wage earners who look forward to the time when they can earn their own farm homes. The desire for home ownership is urging on the present-day farm pioneers.

Everywhere in business the word service stands out as the measurement of value. Service means that the seller stands by the product and hep us make the best use of what we buy.

“Just selling” has been the mistake of the past. We need rural planning, the community type of land settlement with aid and service given to the new settlers. This cannot be secured by forcing dumping of scattered lands on the home-seeking public or into the hands of small speculators.

Article: Modern Colonization