There is money to be made out of Real Estate—endless money, profits that grow as Jonah’s gourd grew, if you only understand the game. “If only!” But there is the rub. You want to be the man on the spot with access to all sources of information, a man with sound judgment who can forecast developments in the near future, if you are to dabble in Real Estate without getting your fingers badly burned. Or if you are not the man on the spot you should know the man on the spot and be thoroughly convinced that he has the judgment and is straight, or you should deal only with a company or agency of unblemished reputation—a reputation of not taking wild-cat risks, but of buying only where there is a reasonable prospect of increased increment and selling at a fair rate to customers who will be content with a reasonable profit—the word “reasonable” to be interpreted in the Canadian sense. With such provisos there is perhaps no form of investment which will yield such large profits in so short a time as investments in Canadian Real Estate. It is gambling, of course, as much as speculation in futures on the Stock Exchange or the buying and selling of shares in industrial concerns with rapid vicissitudes is gambling, but after all the Real Estate business is playing an important part in the economic development of Canada. The Real Estate men are champion “Boosters,” the most enterprising and effective publicity men of the towns and districts where the lots lie. There are plenty of honest Real Estate men who have found that honesty pays, because clients for whom they have made profits come to them again and introduce their moneyed friends to them.