st J O S E P H statue

A few weeks ago, a friend in Kansas asked if I had ever heard of planting a St.Joseph's statue in your yard. It is supposed to help sell houses. They were putting their house on the market and offered to plant one in our yard at the same time.

She sent me a link to look at as well. Having never heard of it, I read up a little to see what it was all about.

A true undergrand real estate agent kit? Sounds like something we needed. Let me tell ya, he's got his work cut out for him being buried in our yard.


Hundreds of Years of Tradition

The solemn tradition of burying St. Joseph in the earth began hundreds of years ago in Europe. During those times, an order of nuns prayed to St. Joseph (the patron saint of the family and household needs) when they needed more lands for convents. The Sisters were encouraged to bury their St. Joseph medals in the ground.

I am normally skeptical of anything like this but, more than a year on the market- we'll try anything! Jim agreed. His response was, "Heck, ya she can do it." She offered to say some prayers while they were out there as well. {thanks, Carrie, Jess & Mercedes}

Why not? I think at this point, we'd try anything and are almost wondering if we should try to rent it out. It's driving us crazy and sucking us DRY.

We did have two showings this week. Maybe a little shout-out to St. Joe is in order. When we have a showing, our realtor has a great system that we get {e-mail} feedback from the showing realtor.

In the last month we've had feedback including, " Great home- too close to the railroad tracks." Another one said, "Lacking trees." Ugh- we would have knocked thousands off and they could have had trees planted.

Feedback we received from a showing yesterday said,
"More house than what these buyers are looking for.. Showed well, and good location, outbuilding is awesome."

It's a little hard to not get discouraged with comments like that. For heaven's sake- THE SQUARE FOOTAGE IS on the listing. Did they not see it? Another ugh.

We just need the right people to come along. Any day would be nice. Prayers are greatly appreciated.

Update:
Feedback from our second showing this week was a little more hopeful. They weren't happy we didn't have the AC running. Who in their right mind is going to have the AC running during this record-setting HOT summer in Kansas when they're not living there? I think our bills {from both houses} are HIGH enough.

We have another showing today as well. Hmmm... three showings maybe for the last three months, then three this week alone. Maybe, St. Joseph is working.