Philadelphia Daily News from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Page 31

:5 NEWS DFAL FTATF Srv. rvS'l THERMOMETER REGULATES SALES AT ARROWHEAD LAKE MCxm mv- AT'k go? mMM? 3 hi 1 km When the thermometer started to rise in the cities and suburbs, the number of visitors greatly increased and sales mounted at Arrowhead 1-ake off Rout 940 at Blakeslee, Pa. According to Richard Norman, President of All American Realty the developer, at 210 River Street. Hackcnsack. NT.

tlx hotter the day in the cities the greater the crowds 'and the sales) at Arrowhead ake. "With the city and suburban thermometers registering 95, 100. 10S for days at a time and people in the Poconos were enjoying cool mountain breezes, we have had more visitors tlian at any time since the development opened three years ago." said Mr. Norman, "and all sales records have been shattered. We are now selling at the rate of twenty-five homesites a week and new homes are being started almost every day.

We anticipate ISO home by the end of this season. Nearly a hundred are already occupied. "We are still featuring a custom-built. 2-bedroom summer home for $2995. It has a modern bathroom and kitchen, carport, and the price includes electric fixture and plumbing.

It is old only to owner and the deed to the land is generally accepted as tle down payment on the house, balance on easy monthly payments. "Many of the purchasers, however, re ordering year round home so that they can also enjoy our winter sports, coasting, skating, fishing, through the ice, deer hunting in the surrounding preserves and our recently completed existing ski-run. "Summer sports are now in full swing on our 250-acre private lake with its two spacious sand beaches, each with a fleet of aluminum rowboats and complete play equipment. We are now inviting all prospects to bring along their bathing suits and spend a tew lionrs one of these wonderful Mr. N'orman rontinued "P.ecause of their high altitude, up to 2500 feet above sra level, their maRiiifiirnt mountain scenery, their many lakes and their pure, dry, health-giving air, the Poconos are often called "The Colorado of the East." "One of our new home owners from Philadelphia said to me recently, 'Until I visited Arrowhead Lake and ordered my home the first of March this year I never knew that such a lieautiful mountain country existed so cloe to the city.

We plan to spend weekends fall, winter and spring in our Arrowhead ake home and to retire here in ahout ten years. My husband likes hunting and we both ski. We'll teach the children next winter.1 Folk in the Philadelphia area who wish to inspect Arrowhead I jke should take the Northeastern extension of tlie Pennsylvania Turnpike to exit J5 (Pocono Interchange), then East on Route 940 and follow die road signs to the property. sf -pi fl'-" I hip (J ft If I RoiV Home Takes on MeiV look Court Center Tight Money Answer: Personal Mortgages end of 1975 he predicted the Of Fllf IK ffif would reach 2.9 VM 1 VVUJ places it is a pace-setter in its architectural design. In fact, the more common total ing idea may be in for more changes.

According to a meeting sponsored by the National name now is not row house. 16 New Houses Association of Home Build By JOSEPH J. FOX Real Estate Editor million. As for the change in design, one delegate predicted that the trailer home of the future would be a modular unit that could be combined S. Bronstein Sons have: In today's tight money market, which has ma-announced completion of terially slowed home buying, owners with roa! with other modular units to tn picturesque brick and for sale may be well advised to consider produce a larger living cobblestone courtyard which son al financial assistance to qualified buyers.

area. I. ha heart of Addison! This is advice which sales Addison' Jnis is aovice wnitn sales but the more elegant town bouse even though the majority of the homes are being built in the suburbs. RATHER THAN the uniformity of the past, the design of the new row house is directed at getting some individuality. In areas like the new city of Reston, the houses are built in small clusters, some of which overlook a lake.

To go with this setting i AnH nf llrs ers, the trailer home of the future will be drastically redesigned. NOT ONLY wiU it be different, but there will be a lot more of them. Delegates to the seminar agreed thati trailer production already' is growing at a faster rate than conventionally-built homes. An economist for the' home builders association The government. this Court.

This new 1 I a WASHINGTON (UPI). On of tha Mwett thing in housing: is really on of tht eldest In tha suburbs or la tha city, tha talk among house-huntars will eventually turn to tha row houso a dwelling that goes back to; Pompeii of Roman times, but on that wasn't always as popular as tt la now. THE ROW HOUSE revival has been growing in tha United StaUa slnca tha end of tha Second World War, but for a long period before that they were considered to be dreary, unimaginative, and found mostly la les-than-nlce residential areas. All that is changing, bow- ever. The row house is now respectable and in many riew.

gage money re litv 'V1 ut plentiful, and ava.lahl- at lJ v-L-kf corvia nrtth rauum, uau soma ugure on community wnai mates peopi. move, rL 7-cost, the anvnow. ic-c ucic, mortgase ,,,1.1 5th and Pine sts. clients eager to dispose of According to the Census Bureau, a survey of an esti The quaint Colonial court-'residential properties now. ition A large percentage 01 mated 9.8 million men yard with its brick walks said the mobile homes hlirh-nualitv ridpnres and TYSEN, WHOK firm showed that about two- anj granite cobblestone estateg which we market is markets across tlie country represented 13 percent of the new housing units in thirds of them moved to is wide choice of row homes equipped with bal-' conies, sun decks, patios, lawns and fences.

But if the row house Isi ifraAt la nr-rAiintAil lat a a anrl it Fiit-nri. a wn.itk 1965. VSEJlVTSssL new two-story town house. John C. Tysen, chairman of America, returned recently venient, or ainerent nous- k.h pr.vi..

from a nation- ii tm.r Another official said there. tag- ine center or me court 1 New York City. meeting with jnanv getting a face lifting for modern use, a modern bous were now 1.4 million trailer homes in use, and by the Channel 29 Tower addition, the owners estate brokers. One repu-and shrubbery which will frequently have sufficient; table Realtor in Illinois visable from the attrac- means so that they do not ported he had had brick arched entrance require immediate payment ly no sales during .1 5th St. in cash." jcause mortgage rr was There are private sardens1 THOSE WHO WANT to'1 available.

Channel 29 (W.BF-TV) has begun construction of a new television transmitter tower, which upon- with walks and each home to sell now, when banks andl John Clerc S. has a roof deck which is savings and loan associa- president in charge a )f I're- office. from tha second tions are short of mortgage views Los Angc. completion in mid-N'ovem- entered br will ha tha tallest floor hallwav nrl i MmI money, should consider tak- is in an area wtinc mart- broadcasting tower in the for roof top garden or pri- ing back a purchase money gage money has. a he puts Greater Philadelphia area, jvate sun decks.

imortgage. it. "dried up to na Yet It was announced by Wil- nWlra t. i With the right buyer, such in the last few -i i two liam L. Fox.

oresident of oersonal financing could eo Previews listings 'h. er Channel 29 (WIBF-TV). court hava a garage and aj hj2n as 70 or percent soid by owners wh coop-foyer entrance at street the purchase price Tysen rated with buyers hy ac-level. The foyer leads utObclieves cepting low down pav men's tha livmg room which is, wun an Mnensiva home with larse first raised a few steps and over-' h. main.

"in both thr looks tha courtyard. eot txe anH in- Clerc-Scott rem)! i. AU tha home are fully terest on the investment owner took bai a mort- ii air-conditioned and hava a'm0unt up rapidly. One rule'gage at 6 pcrcr-. finished recreation room or 0f thumb indicates that car-'most reasonable io-den.

Other desirable fea-jrying charges for a house' terest." lures include fireplaces and art about 1 percent al Owners of re.M.!.-r., in quality appliances. imonth. That means that an the lower price lirjUs The Channel 29 tower will measure 1144 feet, and from its base located in the high grounda of Roxborough at Domino la. and Fowler the station will provide a signal emitting more than one million watts of radiated power. Also included in the construction is tha installation of a new transmitter, which will double the capacity of the present transmitter.

Cost of the project la estimated at $370,000. These architectural occupied property costs thefnot as a rule in a position a ward-winning homes range 'owner 12 percent a year.jto take back mor'. Pra- in pnee from 531,990 to I if the owner can enect peoipe com-t-ie. w- $33,990 except for corner sale by taking back a pur-iever, for the affluent, tha willingness of th viler to homes. The corner proper-; chase money mortgage ties have five bedrooms and which pays him 6 percent.

FLORIDA'S MACKLE BROTHERS recently completed construction of the Lake Haltland Terrace Apartments, a complex of six condominium, units, In Deltona, Fla. It it planned as a group of 11 two-story buildings. Florida's Hackle Brothers Inc. have local Mficea la roquoisJBuilding, Suite 1310, fl Pi.yS. take back a mortgage from tha buyer may weLi mak or three baths and are priced! he will be IS percent better 'off.

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