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apartments, or other expensive improrements, 

 they have a very definite limit in value, because 

 the small home owner does not greatly enhance 

 land values and he will not move. 



Determine what you want to do, lest you fall 

 between two stools ; whether to speculate in land, 

 making a living off it while it increases in value, 

 or to get produce and take the chance of increase 

 in value. 



If you merely want a place to work, nearness 

 to an asylum, hospital, or institution will often 

 help greatly, but such " bad improvements " hurt 

 the speculative value as much as a cemetery does 

 unless it is so situated that a growing concern 

 must have it. But if you wish to speculate 

 that is another story. 



You can often buy a tract that the owner won't 

 divide, and sell off part of it at an advance. If 

 you have to carry land that you cannot use to its 

 full capacity, see that there is some kind of 

 shanty on it so that someone else will be working 

 to pay you rent. 



Look out for the probabilities of assessments 

 for street sewers, sidewalks, and especially for 



