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For all you newcomers did you bury St Joseph statue to help you move here quicker by selling your property quicker?
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the tradition is traced back hundreds of years to Theresa of Avila, who prayed to St. Joseph when the convents needed more land and encouraged nuns to bury St. Joseph medals in the ground as a symbol of their devotion.
Did you notice a time frame difference before the burial had taken place and the time it was buried?
Last edited by SunnyKayak; 09-16-2008 at 06:59 PM..
Signed listing agreement on Friday morning, buried St. Joseph, left to airport, flew to NOLA for a conference. On Sunday evening received a call from our realtor that an offer was coming in. Got acceptable offer via fax at hotel on Monday afternoon. By the time I flew to CLT on Thursday, it was a done deal. Flew back home to Kansas City and started packing. Closed in less than a month.
How much of that had to do w/ St. Joseph . . . I guess we will never know.
I'm not a newcomer, but when I was selling my last house here (last spring), it had been on the market a few weeks. We buried our St. Joseph statue and got an offer on our house the next day!
It was amazing. I had put off listing our house for several months, to get everything totally maxxed out and deluxed - down to the last nail in its place in the garage shop area. Staged the house so things showed up best for photographs - I used studio lighting for all the shots . . . the online listing was a knockout.
We even got a backup offer in! But our house was different - the houses in the neighborhood were all transitional (and quite lovely) but ours was a Georgian. I thought it would be difficult to sell the house, b/c it was so different than others in the area. I had one realtor tell me to take down the period wallpaper (Williamsburg stuff). She said our house was too formal - looked like a BANK. I took that as a compliment and ushered the realtor out the front door.
I like bank decor.
So how much St. Joseph helped out . . . who knows? But I will say this: I loved that house, miss it still! - and felt my life was very blessed there. I think if there is love in a house, that helps sell it - other people feel the love when they walk in the door.
we buried ours in NJ before buying here 6 weeks later we were in contact...now our friends did this here in indian trail and well it took about 7 months...lol yes they buried the St Joseph where it was so supposed to be...
I was a Realtor a hundred years ago. Any time I had a dud, I burried the statue and sold it shortly after. I always felt it had to sit a while before you 'asked the favor".
The house I listed to move here sold in 6 days and settled 21 days later!! I never had time to bury the statue
My house sold in 3 weeks in an impossible market in NW ohio. I was told it could take 6-9 months and it only took 3 weeks. No, I did not bury St. Joseph statue. I refused. But I did pray to God earnestly every day for a quick sale.
I'll be trying to sell my house in Michigan soon. I won't be burying a statue or anything like that. And I'll let the gods go ahead and worry about more important things. My fiance want to bury a Joe though. I won't stop her, but I do think it's silly.
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