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October 6, 2006 at 2:03 PM #7696October 6, 2006 at 5:06 PM #37438powaysellerParticipant
Invoking God to help you win a big hand at the poker table is tacky ,and unlikely to work. Studies have shown that praying for patients after surgery had zero effect on the patient’s outcome, so I doubt the statue trick will work. Besides, if there is a God (as I believe), wouldn’t She want the prices of houses to go down, so that people could afford to buy them with less than 30% of income with a 30 year fixed mortgage? If these people had half a brain, they’d realize that a fair and benevolent God wants housing prices to drop in half, to restore equilibrium and give the next generation a chance to live in California.
October 6, 2006 at 7:53 PM #37446BuyerWillEPBParticipantInstead of sellers wasting $20 on a St. Joseph kit to bury in the ground, why don’t these fools reduce the price of the house another $20 for the unfortunate buyer. That would make more sense.
Maybe buyers should also seek some divine intervention for assistance. I think the Great Hammer of Thor would be appropriate to help crush high prices back down to earth.
November 4, 2007 at 8:04 AM #95341bsrsharmaParticipantWhen It Takes a Miracle
Owners, Realtors Bury Statues of St. Joseph to Attract Buyers; Don’t Forget to Dig Him Up
Cari Luna is Jewish by heritage and Buddhist by religion. She meditates regularly. Yet when she and her husband put their Brooklyn, N.Y., house on the market this year and offers kept falling through, Ms. Luna turned to an unlikely source for help: St. Joseph.
The Catholic saint has long been believed to help with home-related matters. And according to lore now spreading on the Internet and among desperate home-sellers, burying St. Joseph in the yard of a home for sale promises a prompt bid. After Ms. Luna and her husband held five open houses, even baking cookies for one of them, she ordered a St. Joseph “real estate kit” online and buried the three-inch white statue in her yard
“I wasn’t sure if it would be disrespectful for me, a Jewish Buddhist, to co-opt this saint for my real-estate purposes,” says Ms. Luna, a writer. She figured, “Well, could it hurt?”
With the worst housing market in recent years, St. Joseph is enjoying a flurry of attention. Some vendors of religious supplies say St. Joseph statues are flying off the shelves as an increasing number of skeptics and non-Catholics look for some saintly intervention to help them sell their houses.
Some Realtors, too, swear by the practice. Ardell DellaLoggia, a Seattle-area Realtor, buried a statue beneath the “For Sale” sign on a property that she thought was overpriced. She didn’t tell the owner until after it had sold. “He was an atheist,” she explains. “But he thanked me.”
Existing-home sales fell 8% in September to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.04 million units, the lowest level in nearly 10 years, according to the National Association of Realtors.
Statues of St. Joseph sold online can be as tall as 12 inches. One, made of colored resin, portrays St. Joseph cradling the baby Jesus. Yet most home sellers favor the simpler three- or four- inch replicas — most of which are made in China and often depict St. Joseph as a carpenter.
St. Joseph home sale kit
Most statues come in a “Home Sale Kit” that is priced at around $5 and includes burial instructions and a prayer. One site, Good Fortune Online, recently added another kit with a statue of St. Jude — known as the patron saint of hopeless causes — “to help those with a difficult property to sell,” the site says. Another site, Stjosephstatue.com, takes orders for its “Underground Real Estate Agent Kits” at 1-888-BURY-JOE………
http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/103807/When-It-Takes-a-Miracle?mod=weekend
November 4, 2007 at 8:04 AM #95397bsrsharmaParticipantWhen It Takes a Miracle
Owners, Realtors Bury Statues of St. Joseph to Attract Buyers; Don’t Forget to Dig Him Up
Cari Luna is Jewish by heritage and Buddhist by religion. She meditates regularly. Yet when she and her husband put their Brooklyn, N.Y., house on the market this year and offers kept falling through, Ms. Luna turned to an unlikely source for help: St. Joseph.
The Catholic saint has long been believed to help with home-related matters. And according to lore now spreading on the Internet and among desperate home-sellers, burying St. Joseph in the yard of a home for sale promises a prompt bid. After Ms. Luna and her husband held five open houses, even baking cookies for one of them, she ordered a St. Joseph “real estate kit” online and buried the three-inch white statue in her yard
“I wasn’t sure if it would be disrespectful for me, a Jewish Buddhist, to co-opt this saint for my real-estate purposes,” says Ms. Luna, a writer. She figured, “Well, could it hurt?”
With the worst housing market in recent years, St. Joseph is enjoying a flurry of attention. Some vendors of religious supplies say St. Joseph statues are flying off the shelves as an increasing number of skeptics and non-Catholics look for some saintly intervention to help them sell their houses.
Some Realtors, too, swear by the practice. Ardell DellaLoggia, a Seattle-area Realtor, buried a statue beneath the “For Sale” sign on a property that she thought was overpriced. She didn’t tell the owner until after it had sold. “He was an atheist,” she explains. “But he thanked me.”
Existing-home sales fell 8% in September to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.04 million units, the lowest level in nearly 10 years, according to the National Association of Realtors.
Statues of St. Joseph sold online can be as tall as 12 inches. One, made of colored resin, portrays St. Joseph cradling the baby Jesus. Yet most home sellers favor the simpler three- or four- inch replicas — most of which are made in China and often depict St. Joseph as a carpenter.
St. Joseph home sale kit
Most statues come in a “Home Sale Kit” that is priced at around $5 and includes burial instructions and a prayer. One site, Good Fortune Online, recently added another kit with a statue of St. Jude — known as the patron saint of hopeless causes — “to help those with a difficult property to sell,” the site says. Another site, Stjosephstatue.com, takes orders for its “Underground Real Estate Agent Kits” at 1-888-BURY-JOE………
http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/103807/When-It-Takes-a-Miracle?mod=weekend
November 4, 2007 at 8:04 AM #95407bsrsharmaParticipantWhen It Takes a Miracle
Owners, Realtors Bury Statues of St. Joseph to Attract Buyers; Don’t Forget to Dig Him Up
Cari Luna is Jewish by heritage and Buddhist by religion. She meditates regularly. Yet when she and her husband put their Brooklyn, N.Y., house on the market this year and offers kept falling through, Ms. Luna turned to an unlikely source for help: St. Joseph.
The Catholic saint has long been believed to help with home-related matters. And according to lore now spreading on the Internet and among desperate home-sellers, burying St. Joseph in the yard of a home for sale promises a prompt bid. After Ms. Luna and her husband held five open houses, even baking cookies for one of them, she ordered a St. Joseph “real estate kit” online and buried the three-inch white statue in her yard
“I wasn’t sure if it would be disrespectful for me, a Jewish Buddhist, to co-opt this saint for my real-estate purposes,” says Ms. Luna, a writer. She figured, “Well, could it hurt?”
With the worst housing market in recent years, St. Joseph is enjoying a flurry of attention. Some vendors of religious supplies say St. Joseph statues are flying off the shelves as an increasing number of skeptics and non-Catholics look for some saintly intervention to help them sell their houses.
Some Realtors, too, swear by the practice. Ardell DellaLoggia, a Seattle-area Realtor, buried a statue beneath the “For Sale” sign on a property that she thought was overpriced. She didn’t tell the owner until after it had sold. “He was an atheist,” she explains. “But he thanked me.”
Existing-home sales fell 8% in September to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.04 million units, the lowest level in nearly 10 years, according to the National Association of Realtors.
Statues of St. Joseph sold online can be as tall as 12 inches. One, made of colored resin, portrays St. Joseph cradling the baby Jesus. Yet most home sellers favor the simpler three- or four- inch replicas — most of which are made in China and often depict St. Joseph as a carpenter.
St. Joseph home sale kit
Most statues come in a “Home Sale Kit” that is priced at around $5 and includes burial instructions and a prayer. One site, Good Fortune Online, recently added another kit with a statue of St. Jude — known as the patron saint of hopeless causes — “to help those with a difficult property to sell,” the site says. Another site, Stjosephstatue.com, takes orders for its “Underground Real Estate Agent Kits” at 1-888-BURY-JOE………
http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/103807/When-It-Takes-a-Miracle?mod=weekend
November 4, 2007 at 8:04 AM #95415bsrsharmaParticipantWhen It Takes a Miracle
Owners, Realtors Bury Statues of St. Joseph to Attract Buyers; Don’t Forget to Dig Him Up
Cari Luna is Jewish by heritage and Buddhist by religion. She meditates regularly. Yet when she and her husband put their Brooklyn, N.Y., house on the market this year and offers kept falling through, Ms. Luna turned to an unlikely source for help: St. Joseph.
The Catholic saint has long been believed to help with home-related matters. And according to lore now spreading on the Internet and among desperate home-sellers, burying St. Joseph in the yard of a home for sale promises a prompt bid. After Ms. Luna and her husband held five open houses, even baking cookies for one of them, she ordered a St. Joseph “real estate kit” online and buried the three-inch white statue in her yard
“I wasn’t sure if it would be disrespectful for me, a Jewish Buddhist, to co-opt this saint for my real-estate purposes,” says Ms. Luna, a writer. She figured, “Well, could it hurt?”
With the worst housing market in recent years, St. Joseph is enjoying a flurry of attention. Some vendors of religious supplies say St. Joseph statues are flying off the shelves as an increasing number of skeptics and non-Catholics look for some saintly intervention to help them sell their houses.
Some Realtors, too, swear by the practice. Ardell DellaLoggia, a Seattle-area Realtor, buried a statue beneath the “For Sale” sign on a property that she thought was overpriced. She didn’t tell the owner until after it had sold. “He was an atheist,” she explains. “But he thanked me.”
Existing-home sales fell 8% in September to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.04 million units, the lowest level in nearly 10 years, according to the National Association of Realtors.
Statues of St. Joseph sold online can be as tall as 12 inches. One, made of colored resin, portrays St. Joseph cradling the baby Jesus. Yet most home sellers favor the simpler three- or four- inch replicas — most of which are made in China and often depict St. Joseph as a carpenter.
St. Joseph home sale kit
Most statues come in a “Home Sale Kit” that is priced at around $5 and includes burial instructions and a prayer. One site, Good Fortune Online, recently added another kit with a statue of St. Jude — known as the patron saint of hopeless causes — “to help those with a difficult property to sell,” the site says. Another site, Stjosephstatue.com, takes orders for its “Underground Real Estate Agent Kits” at 1-888-BURY-JOE………
http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/103807/When-It-Takes-a-Miracle?mod=weekend
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