headymamamyrna Posted May 20, 2008 Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 Sending vibes for someone to sell their house this week!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skelter Posted May 20, 2008 Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 I sold two this weekend ... probably doesn't help you much I assume you have an SPP on your house?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark tonin Posted May 20, 2008 Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 {{{house-selling vibes to my friends}}}Peace, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Low Roller Posted May 20, 2008 Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 [{<([{<( SELL HOUSE )>}])>}] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted May 20, 2008 Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 Sell that house in Hull already! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms.Huxtable Posted May 20, 2008 Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 Ahhh thanks Myrna. You're so sweet.But yeah, do keep those vibes coming. We made a conditional offer on our dreamhouse (I wish I could post a picture) and it's conditional on the sale of ours so..... pray to whatever you pray to!!!Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted May 20, 2008 Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 Is there an on-line listing for it anywhere? I can post about it in the for-sale newsgroup where I work.Aloha,Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybone Posted May 20, 2008 Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 Good luck and good vibes! You must be excited! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted May 20, 2008 Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 Is there an on-line listing for it anywhere? I can post about it in the for-sale newsgroup where I work.Aloha, Brad mls.ca seems broken right now but here's the remax listing. there is plenty of interest, but we want it sold yesterday! http://www.remax-quebec.com/en/propriete/ficheResult.jsp?uls=O8002621 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted May 20, 2008 Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 I wish your house was on sale for that price and in my neighbourhood in Riverdale... although it would go for 5 times that in reality. I'm currently looking at an 800 sq. foot loft for $250 grand. Good luck Mike and Sharon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubberdinghy Posted May 20, 2008 Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 I got $165 burning a hole in my wallet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms Zimmy Posted May 20, 2008 Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 {{{selling vibes}}}I wish that I was still looking for a house...we did look at a few in Hull and yours is about what we were looking for.Good Luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phishtaper Posted May 20, 2008 Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 the listing is in french. is it a french house? are all the water taps labeled in french? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LXQ42 Posted May 20, 2008 Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 ((((Sell your house...)))) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted May 20, 2008 Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 the listing is in french. is it a french house? are all the water taps labeled in french? it comes with a french maid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
headymamamyrna Posted May 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 The French Maid turned 40 today!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timouse Posted May 20, 2008 Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 your house is tres jolie. the ad doesn't lie.good luck selling! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarahbelle Posted May 20, 2008 Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 GOood HOuse SelLLinG ViBes!!!!~*~.~*~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms Zimmy Posted May 26, 2008 Report Share Posted May 26, 2008 So did it sell yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted May 26, 2008 Report Share Posted May 26, 2008 not yet. where's our heady buyer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
headymamamyrna Posted May 26, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 26, 2008 I had my last sleep in your house on SAturday so there! It should sell soon now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Wooly Mammoth Posted May 26, 2008 Report Share Posted May 26, 2008 There's a selling homes saint. We bought a little statue in a kit when we had to sell our house in house in Omaha and we buried it, per the instructions, in the backyard. good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Wooly Mammoth Posted May 26, 2008 Report Share Posted May 26, 2008 Selling your house? Bury a saintBy Darci Smith • Bankrate.comContact real estate agent? Check.Clean home from top to bottom, fix leaky faucets and buy fresh flowers? Check.Bury St. Joseph in the yard? Huh?When it comes time to sell a house, some homeowners rely on St. Joseph, carpenter, earthly father of Jesus and, well, earthly real estate agent. A centuries-old tradition claims that burying a statue of St. Joseph in the yard helps homes sell faster.Stephen J. Binz believes it works. The author of "St. Joseph, My Real Estate Agent," he became a believer when his own house had been on the market for seven long months. Upon the advice of his Presbyterian real estate agent, Binz buried a St. Joseph statue in his yard."I thought it was a rather ridiculous superstition," says Binz, a practicing Catholic. But a week later, he had an offer and sold the house.Binz now says it's only a superstition if you treat it like one. "The distinction between superstition and devotion is created by the person doing it," says Binz. In other words, if you simply bury St. Joseph and count on that to sell the house, then it's superstition. If you do it as an act of faith, then it's devotion.Happily for home sellers, kits containing small, easy-to-bury statues detail exactly how to deep six St. Joseph and pray for his assistance. Roman Inc., a Rosedale, Ill.-based company, has produced St. Joseph home-sales kits since 1996. Complete with a statue and a prayer card, the kit consistently ranks among its top-selling designs. Roman currently sells four different styles of St. Joseph kits, including one translated into Spanish.The House of Hansen, a religious goods store in Chicago, sells between 30 and 50 St. Joseph statues a week to people of all denominations, according to manager Mary Arens. Buyers are usually on a mission, heading straight for the one style she stocks: "Someone either told them about it or they used it before," says Arens.Marcia Gies, a metropolitan Detroit real estate agent for Coldwell Banker, purchases St. Joseph statues in bulk and gives them to clients who ask her about the custom. She handed the first one out as a joke 14 years ago after a listing expired that had been on the market for a year and half. It then sold in one showing.But do houses with St. Joseph planted in the yard always sell quickly?"Some do, some don't," says Gies.When a friend suggested Judith Semas bury St. Joseph, she couldn't resist -- her San Jose, Calif., house had languished on the market for six months and she was pressed for cash. "I thought it was a crazy idea, but she insisted I didn't have to believe in it, just bury the statue," says Semas, who identifies herself as a spiritual person who doesn't practice any particular religion.Semas' house sold less than two weeks later within $5,000 of the asking price. "Let's just say that from then on I decided that any time I'd plan on selling my house, I'd be soliciting a little help from St. Joseph," she says.Not everyone agrees on how the practice of burying St. Joseph began. The most popular tale is that an order of European religious sisters in the Middle Ages buried a St. Joseph medal and asked the saint to help them acquire land for a convent. Others believe a religious brother in Montreal in the late 1800s buried St. Joseph medals in the land he wanted for a new oratory. Or that German carpenters first buried St. Joseph statues in the foundations of houses they built.Just as vague is how and where St. Joseph should be buried. Some say the statue should be placed in a hole in the backyard upside down, with his feet toward heaven, facing the home. Others say he should face the new home, be in a corner or in the front yard. Most condo owners simply stick him in a flowerpot.But one thing is certain: When the house is sold and the deal is done, St. Joseph should be dug up and placed in a spot of honor in the new home. How many people actually follow through and unearth the saint is unknown, says Binz, but he estimates that there are "a lot of buried statues out there that people have forgotten once the house is sold."Michelle Blake turned to St. Joseph after she and her husband purchased a new home and their small Cape Cod residence remained unsold through the usually hot spring and summer real estate seasons. "We are both Catholic, so we figured what the heck, it couldn't hurt," recalls Blake of West Chester, Pa.After burying a statue upside down, facing the street and next to the for sale sign, Blake and her family began praying to St. Joseph daily. The house sold within two weeks."Who knows if it was coincidence or St. Joseph," adds Blake. "But I'll tell you that I still have the prayer to St. Joseph on my fridge and the little plastic statue on my windowsill." I dunno about superstition versus devotion. We're Jewish and we did it. We were in a similar situation having already bought a new house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
headymamamyrna Posted May 26, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 26, 2008 So go and buy a St Joseph statue.. I can have the faith for you if you don't. I'm sure he wouldnt mind I wouldn't bury him upside down though.I'd want him looking toward the house.. Whatever it takes try it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted May 26, 2008 Report Share Posted May 26, 2008 well I'll be darned! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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