Land is the soundest investment in the world, and it has always been one of the great objects and hopes of the people of the earth to own a small slice of its surface.
If you own land, you acquire a sense of responsibility to the community where it is located. You are invested with a dignity which you can not obtain in any other way. You possess a sense of security and independence that nothing else will give you.
All over the world it is land which is considered first security. In this country, the courts refuse money or jewels for bail, insisting upon land as the requirement of the bond.
The reason is because land is a fixture; means security that can not be carried away or be lost, it is always there when it is wanted.
Buy land, therefore, if only a small portion. If you can not get forty acres, get twenty, or ten, or one, but get some land, and you will be surprised to find how fast your acre will become two, etc.
There are always opportunities to buy land on time, so that you do not have to wait until you have a large sum of money, but you can pay in small amounts on long time.
It is a good business that of real estate. You buy land, then subdivide it, sell a part to pay for the whole, and own the rest. It is a common, every day transaction, and is successful, but you must keep your eyes open.
OWN YOUR OWN HOME
A man without a home may as well be a man without a country. A home is bail for success in life. Not a mere place to live and sleep, or eat and get your washing done, but a home of your own, what an Englishman calls his “castle.” Yours where you are safe from intruders, and feel like a king in his own domain.
It is easy to acquire a home, but you must begin at the beginning and do as all others have done and will always do. Buy the beginning of a home with what you can easily save out of your earnings or wages.