1900 Residential Rents

Take a look at how inexpensive it was to rent a house a hundred years ago. This is a copy of an advertisement from the 1903  Charlotte Observer.  A family could rent a seven-room house in uptown Charlotte for $25.00 a month in the early 1900s. In one hundred years, the rent for this same house will be $2000.00

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