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Why I’ll Never Be a Beggar “j BECAUSE 1 BECAUSE | BECAUSE I BECAUSE “If I were to make 50 per cent in my own business, I would be accused of robbing the public.” “But because I have made as high as 1,000 per cent in Atlanta real estate invest ments, my friends have called me a keen bus iness man. ‘‘The more I think about COLONIAL HILL and the more I see of its advantages, the more regret I feel at not investing more heavily last year. “But I have not allowed this to prevent me from investing again this year. I know that next year's story will be even a more profitable one than this year’s.” 0 I look like the beggar on the op posite page’ Do I look as if I ever WILL BE a beggar 1 I don’t think so. In fact. I KNOW that I will never see the day when I will ask for alms on Peachtree or any other street. j|D I wish every reader of The Georgian would look at the deplorable figure facing me and then look at me. It is true that the artist has not shown my face as it really is. But he has caught the general idea. For reasons of my own, I don't want everyone to know who I am. But I will say this—l am a prosperous Atlanta business man and have lived here for over twenty years. I have seen Atlanta grow by leaps and hounds. I expect to see repeated in the next few years what I have already seen in the past. I said I was prosperous. I am. But I am frank to say that most of the property I can call my own today has come from judicious in vestments made in Atlanta realty rather than in my business. If I were to make 50 per cent in my own business and let people know about it. I am afraid I would be accused of robbing the public. If I learned that my grocer was making 50 per cent on the goods he supplied my table, I would call him a crook. But because I have made as high as 1,000 per cent in Atlanta real estate investments, my friends have called me a keen business man. I think they are right. For I haven't robbed anybody. 1 have merely taken advantage of Atlanta’s wonderful growth and of the extraor dinary enhancement in real estate values which followed it. Last year my attention was attracted to COLONIAL HILL, the beautiful sub-division in West End. I always manage to have a few hundred dollars for good realty investments. I bought my first lot in COLONIAL HILL with out seeing it. I knew where the property was located and my knowledge of values and my experience regarding Atlanta’s growth made me feel that it was a good investment. Since then, time has shown that 1 was cor- COLONIAL HILL CO. c.iSSli., S. E. DAVIDSON & BY A COLONIAL HILL INVESTOR I have invested every surplus cent I have in Atlanta real estate—the safest of all securities. a large part of this investment is in COLONIAL HILL and other high class property of a similar kind. my money grows with Atlanta and I’ll never live to see the day when Atlanta ceases to grow. COLONIAL HILL is in reality the West End of Atlanta and within a short time Atlanta will extend far beyond it. rect. I bought more, and this year I have in creased my holdings. It is quite possible I will increase these hold ings further. So far I have sold nothing in COLONIAL HILL which I have purchased. 1 don't need the money, and I know that while my money is there it is safe. I know that as long as it is there I will never present the ab ject appearance of the cringing figure fac ing me. Had this man stuck to real estate and quit dabbling in frenzied finance, I feel quite sure he would have had a different story to tell to day. They can print stocks and bonds as long as the ink and paper hold out. BFT NOBODY CAN’ CREATE MORE REAL ESTATE. The supply of land will never increase on this earth. There is so much and no more, and all land values are bound to increase as time passes and population increases. So it is merely a question of making real es tate investments judiciously. Being an enthu siastic Atlanta man, I naturally feel that there is no real estate as good as Atlanta real estate. On several occasions I have made real estate investments in other cities and the results were nothing to be compared with those produced by Atlanta realty. If I had the money I would buy property in the heart of Atlanta. But I am frank to say that I haven’t got enough money and even if I did have I don't believe it could be purchased at a figure within reason. The owners know as well as Ido its enormous value. For that reason I must confine my investments to the outlying districts. That is one reason why I am enthusiastic about COLONIAL HILL. I believe that within the last five years I have invested in Atlanta realty sub-divisions as heavily as any other one man. Some of this property I still own. Some of it 1 have sold at a profit and re-invested. But my profits always go back into Atlanta real estate. 1 said I would call my grocer a crook if he made 100 per cent on the goods he sold me. You THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: SATURDAY. MAY 4. 1912. I 111 never be a Beg- 6ar on Peachtree A Street would, too, probably. But I think you will agree with me in concluding that several in vestors known to me personally who have made as high as 1,000 per cent in COLONIAL HILL are wise investors. I might mention as an illustration a friend of mine who bought a lot out there last fall for S4OO. He had paid S6O on it when he sold it this year for $l,lOO. Figure out his per cent of profit. I make it about 860 per cent. Another man I know bought a lot at Colonial Hill last fall for S9OO and sold it this year for $1,400, after having paid S3O on it. A profit of SSOO on an investment of S3O seems pretty good to me. Something like 600 per cent, isn’t it? The more I think about COLONIAL HILL and the more I see of its advantages, the more regret I feel at not investing more heavily last year. But I have not allowed this to prevent me from investing this year. I know that next year’s story will be even a more profitable one than this year's. And when I think of what the story will be. in five years I get more en thusiastic than ever. So that’s why I will never be a beggar on Peachtree street. No man will ever be a beg gar on Peachtree or any other street who judi ciously invests his money in real estate, and I consider COLONIAL HILL a most ju dicious investment. I have invested in Atlan ta realty for twenty years and I know what I am talking about. There are some of my friends who say I am a crank on real estate, and that the money I have made has turned my head. But if it has, it has taken twenty years to do it. And 1 know that some, of these same friends who scoff at my enthusiasm about COLONIAL HILL and who prefer to follow in the footsteps of the ragged creature facing me, will be beggars long before I am. Because my money goes into real estate— The safest of all securities. p. S.__The COLONIAL HILL folks will be glad to send booklet with prices upon re quest. • _ ’ Z jßufflnnK JT • f : A A ' <a . ■ ' •• • • • 5 W jy w t* ■: ■ •* A i -V c wcw • • r •' ■n., v r y >■ ■ ..■■'■-'‘f •• ■ "... :• . ' y f 0/\ < i■. • ■I J| : ... -v. ; •* * r /’_•**■* S'•*’ r r '^‘’ •'* fl* A.' 7 ' ’•'/ s / -’4-iysl ’■ ■' ; na'wrf, ‘f.- r fv- n wU'f ' M . —MAGAZINE SECTION PAGE SEVEN “No man will ever be a beggar on Peach tree or any other street who judicious ly invests his money in real estate. And I consider Colonial Hill a most judicious investment. I have been investing in At lanta realty for twen ty years and I know what I am talking about. ’ ’ Here is the story of a suc cessful Atlanta business man who says he will never be a beggar on Peach tree or any other street because he has invested his money in real estate at Colonial Hill, West End