(UPDATE) Burying a Statue of St. Joseph to help sell your home...

[transparant]

Anyone heard of this before? I just heard this for the first time today - but apparently this legend is very old. Some real estate agents even give out St. Joseph statues to their clients. After you sell your home you are supposed to dig up the statue and give him a place of honor in the new house. Have any of you buried a Statue of St. Joseph to help sell your home?

 

[LadyZolt]

I've heard of this and I'm sure it works so long as you combine it with pricing your house properly for the market. Better than burying St. Joseph is hiring an independent appraiser (not one recommended by your real estate agent) and having him/her assess your house and the current market, then telling you what your house is worth.

-Dorothy (LadyZolt)

 

[daisax]

He's got to be buried upside down!

 

[RadioNate]

I have one in my front yard right now....he isn't working

I will say though, my mom and grandma both buried one (my mom put mine in too) and BOTH their houses sold to the 1st people that toured them! Both were up-side down in the front yard.

My mom convinced my dad to bury one (they are divorced) he put his right-side up in the back yard. Took him 6 months to sell.

 

[AKL_Megs]

He's got to be buried upside down!

Yeah! Most people get a small one and bury it upside down in their yard. I know some realtors and they say the burying started because having a large statue of a religious figure might sway certian people away from your house

 

[lulu71]

Oh yes...the religious stores around here can't even keep them on the shelves long enough, they're always sold out. I know many people who swear by this, my MIL being one of them.

 

[lucas]

Yes! I believe it worked for us when we sold our house in Tampa.

 

[Feralpeg]

It didn't work for me. But, I must add that I accidently broke his head off while burying him in the yard. It was winter and the ground was hard.

 

[CEDmom]

It didn't really work for us in 2005/06. We buried one upside down facing the street right near the front door just as the directions say. It took 6 months to sell and we had to lower our price a few times as the market adjusted. I guess the good news is that we did sell . The bad news is that when I went to dig it up I couldn't find it - 6 months is a long time to remember exactly where something so small is .

 

[thewishfire]

Yep we had one too. Ours said on the package that burrying it is just a superstition, just having it is enough. Oddly enough, I think even having one is a superstition, but hey, the day after we remembered that we had it and put it up on the shelf our house sold!

 

[Muffy]

I've never heard of this! Times are tough with real estate though so bury that statue pronto! Good luck!

 

[mickeyfan2]

I have heard of it but I don't believe it. They say you must dig him up or you will end up back at the house you sold. I guess you pass him on.

 

[mickeyfan2]

It didn't work for me. But, I must add that I accidently broke his head off while burying him in the yard. It was winter and the ground was hard.

 

[wendy46001]

Worked for us...(well it could have been the price of the house)...but still what could it hurt...happy thoughts are happy thoughts....Oh and mark where you bury the little guy...took hours to recall what part of the yard he was in...

 

[Pigeon]

No, but I did sacrifice a chicken in the front yard and I swear I could see the face of Mary in the entrails.

 

[transparant]

Worked for us...(well it could have been the price of the house)...but still what could it hurt...happy thoughts are happy thoughts....Oh and mark where you bury the little guy...took hours to recall what part of the yard he was in...

Okay - I just bought a Statue of St. Joseph and I buried and marked where he is buried with a stepping stone. Hopefully this works I'll keep you all posted.

 

[ZephyrHawk]

Supposedly it works for things other than homes as well. My parents' friends tried to sell their old power boat for 3 years and couldn't get a buyer. Then they duct taped a St. Joseph statue upside-down in the bow...it sold within a couple of weeks. They put the statue in a "place of honor" (ahem...the liquor cabinet) in their new boat.

 

[NCDisneyMom]

We had our house on the market for 3 months with barely a nibble. We buried the St. Joseph upside down in our front yard, facing the street, and the house was sold within a month. Coincidence? Maybe. But maybe not.

 

[Blue Skies]

Most everyone in our family that has buried a St. Joseph statue has had great success! My Mom sold her last house to the same family that built it when it had been on the market for only one week (this was in a very slow market).

I believe that the main point of burying the statue is to ask for the intercession of St. Joseph in selling your house. It's not just burying a statue without thought and hoping your house sells. The people who used this in my family also did a novena to St Joseph at the same time.

When my DH and I sold our last house we never even got far enough to get the St Joseph statue. I prayed a novena for the help of St Philomena - and our home sold in one day!

Prayer and the intercession of the Saints helps!

 

[oxfordcircus]

how does the statue affect the sale?