St. Joseph Statue Making a Comback in Selling Your Home
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I must admit that the last home we sold, we buried a statue of St. Joseph in our front yard and the home sold a short time later. I am not one to get caught up in these sorts of things, but the use of a St. Josephs statue when selling your home is probably something that if you are the least bit religious you should look into.
St. Joseph must sense the housing market is in a slump.
For more than 500 years, home sellers have turned to Jesus’ earthly father for help locating a buyer. Like a litmus test, sales of his 4-inch statues – which sellers plant head down on their property – ebb and flow with the tides of the real estate market.
Lately, they’ve been flying off Christian gift store shelves. And sellers testify they’ve turned into believers.
“Whether it is divine intervention or faith – or who knows? – definitely something is working,” said Brian Moore, a Glendale real estate agent.
Moore, who was raised Catholic, first heard about the St. Joseph phenomenon six months ago from a colleague who, like him, was having trouble selling a home.
Moore bought and buried a statue on each of six properties he was listing. Each entered escrow that week.
Because some people think the practice is a silly superstition, Moore said, he sometimes buries the statues without telling the homeowner. via LA Daily News
I like your analogy in this article. The real estate economy really is like a patient who you cannot ...
Real Estate is hyper-local. Every market is different. Phoenix has already hit bottom and is starting to recover. We have ...
Great to hear that the big boys
are predicting recovery sooner than
most think.
Thanks for the value! 
I agree--good analogy. You have to crawl before you can walk. Right now, at least in Austin, many people would ...
I live in the Philippines and I am glad we are not on the lists... 
I have a few Litograghs of Presidents homes , made by Richard V. Sebring. yr. 1990 Do they have any ...
I see the question I have, but no response. I do not have a for sale sign up ...
I'll add mine to the list too. This is happening in Kansas City, Missouri as well now.
We already knew ...
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Comment by Ramey on 31 March 2009:
Some web sites say bury St. Joseph upside down and others say face towards street and bury right side up and towards street,and 3inches down and cover dirt 3 inches over statue which is right?