St Joseph Statue to sell real estate?

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This is pure James testimony, not some cut & paste thing..

Ok, as many of you know I'm pretty skeptical over a lot of things... But I've been selling my Maine house for a year and a half with no offers whatsoever...

Couple of weeks ago, i read this article which says that if you bury a small St Joseph statue upside down in the property, you'll see the house... It sounded blasphemous honestly, but its a popular thing to do and some catholic websites were actually encouraging it -- and I was getting desperate -- so i did it...

A week later AND on last Friday (the 13th), i got an offer and after some easy negotiating, we are now under contract...

Now I realize, that under contract is not officially sold -- but its closer than I have ever been with this house... So I'm amazed that this worked...

I still think its a bit mean-spirited... I mean it sounds like you're saying to St Joseph "Ok, the sooner you sell the house, the sooner you get out of the upside-down grave" -- But it worked!!

Full disclosure: I did drop the price of the house a bit during those weeks which may have helped move this along, but I've dropped the price before and nothing happened...

Heres a link to the story:
www.fisheaters.com/stjoestatue.html

[helenh1]

Best of luck, James. May you have a trouble free transition.

[helenh1]

Almost forgot, Thank you St. Joseph.

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James my daughter did the same thing with the statue and her house sold a week later.

Best of Luck.

[CQuinn]

James,

That's funny good luck with the transaction. Always remember the homes in Morris Park, Pelham and Throggs Neck, the Italian families all had statues of " Mary On The Half Shell " in their front yards. Didn't matter how small the yard was there was a place for the Half Shell.

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Over 43 years ago my Grandmother bought a statue of St. Anthony for our home and until today he is still standing and in great shape.

Thanks Grandma.

[Fran Gyomory]

A lot of folks have said the same thing. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. If St. Joseph wants to help, let him help!!!!!

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I'm not standing in St Joe's way!!!

I mentioned the St Joseph thing to someone today, and they told me that when they were resodding their front lawn a few years back, they found a St Joseph's statue... Thats bad cuz when you close you are supposed to dig him up and place him in a place of respect afterwards in your new home...

When I moved into my NJ house 14 years ago, there was a Mary in the half-shell in my backyard under some brush... She was qickly relocated to a more visible spot...