Posted by Becca_FL on 9/5/07 12:18pm
Msg #209429

Devine intervention for the housing market?

http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/real-estate/20040831a1.asp

Reply by Dennis D Broadbooks on 9/5/07 12:21pm
Msg #209430

And Here We Thought...

...P.T. Barnum was only alive & well on this message board!

Reply by MistarellaFL on 9/5/07 1:02pm
Msg #209434

I'm buying one today.
I'd love to get out of this house and move on to a better one.

Reply by LC/AZ on 9/5/07 1:04pm
Msg #209435

Buried good ole St. Joe in the back yard, and sold my house in eight days.

Reply by Linda_H/FL on 9/5/07 1:14pm
Msg #209439

Re: Wish I'd known this secret two years ago

before my house sat on the market for 2 years!!

Reply by Carole Breckbill on 9/5/07 1:42pm
Msg #209446

Re: Divine intervention for the housing market?

I was digging in my front flower bed of my new house and found a small white statue. I thought it looked like St. Francis, but maybe it was St. Joe. This house had been on the market longer than the owner had hoped, but I truly believe it was waiting for me. It has everything I "said" I wanted in a home, and I got it for a great value. Closed the loan long distance by mail (without a mobile notary) and am living happily ever after. Laugh all you want, but when you thoughtfully send your energy into the universe, wonderful things can happen. If St. Joe is the vehicle, fine. Whatever works!

Reply by ZeeCA on 9/5/07 1:06pm
Msg #209436

article was in my local paper about 8 months ago...

the guy selling them is making a killing on sellin them!

Reply by LJ on 9/5/07 1:25pm
Msg #209441

Re: article was in my local paper about 8 months ago...

I hope this doesn't offend any Jehovah Witnesses out there. But, when I sold my grandmothers house a few years ago, a young newly married couple wanted to buy it so badly. I did some extra things for them so they were able to get into it (meaning doing some of the little repairs to get it up to code). They were thrilled and so was I. Only to find out that they are Jehovah Witness. I called my devout Catholic cousin (like my grandmother) and told him. He came over before we closed on it and buried St. Joseph in the yard. It is still there and they have no idea. Kind of funny.

Reply by SReis on 9/5/07 2:17pm
Msg #209467

Friend buried one & still took her 1.5 yrs to sell n/m

Reply by BetsyMI on 9/5/07 2:32pm
Msg #209474

Re: Friend buried one & still took her 1.5 yrs to sell

Maybe he wasn't upside down or was facing the wrong way...LOL!

Reply by LC/AZ on 9/5/07 3:03pm
Msg #209489

Re: Friend buried one & still took her 1.5 yrs to sell

Did she dip him in holy water before she buried him?

Reply by MikeC/NY on 9/5/07 7:33pm
Msg #209550

This has been going on in this part of NY for about 20 years.... St. Joe is usually buried upside down in a corner of the back yard, facing the house. I have a friend who sold his house two weeks after doing this; whether the house would have sold that quickly anyway is open to debate, but whatever floats your boat....

Reply by Frenchie/TN on 9/5/07 7:49pm
Msg #209552

This has been going on in New Orleans for years as well. When we were trying to sell our house to move to Tennessee all my friends were telling me about burying St. Joseph in the front flower bed but before I got a chance to do it my real estate agent went and got a statue and buried it in the yard herself. Made sure it was ok with me first. I never asked her if she did that for all her listings or if we were just special. LOL.