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Step 1
Bury St. Joseph. Because St. Joseph is the saint of family and home, it is a long believed tradition to bury a statue of St. Joseph in your home's backyard. He is believed to bring luck in any real estate transaction. To receive St. Joseph's full power, he is supposed to be buried upside down with his face towards the street.
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Step 2
Bake Cookies. Some believe that baking cookies or bread right before an Open House will make your home seem inviting and feel like home. By walking into a home and being welcomed by the smell of fresh baked pastries, they can imagine baking in their own new home. If baking cookies in not something that you are eager to do, dabbing vanilla on light bulbs can give the same effect. When the light bulbs warm up, the aroma will spread across the room. Another smell that has been known to help is to slice a lemon and leave it on a cutting board in the kitchen.
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Step 3
Try Feng Shui. Many swear by the power of feng shui. In Feng Shui, it states that placing red flowering plants along your sidewalk leading up to your home is inviting to prospective home buyers. Try to keep plants to the left side of rooms and never have too much furniture. Place a bright yellow flowering plan inside the front door in the direction you would like buyers to look first. If you would like them to move to a newly remodeled kitchen, place a vase of flowers to the side of the hall leading to the kitchen.
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Step 4
Paint. While red and brown walls are popular now, many potential homeowners will see this as work that needs to be done right away for the walls to match their furniture. Paint walls a neutral white and this will provide a nice clean canvas for new paint and does not require the new homeowners to paint right away.
Comments
kristara said
on 6/18/2009 I have St Joseph buried right now!
mbastudent said
on 6/18/2009 A 'Super' Article ;) - Interesting ideas, I may have to give it a shot!
morgana46 said
on 6/18/2009 Hey, don't knock St. Joseph! I think it is, or was, a pretty regional Philly area Roman Catholic thing, and we used it for the first time at the suggestion of friends. Yes, he DID come through for us when all else had failed, but not without a few bumps in the road. First of all, it was back in 1997, when you had to actually go in the local Catholic store to buy your statue. When I asked to purchase the little guy, the clerk went into a rant about how she was sick and tired of all these people who don't really believe doing this, blah blah blah. (Did I have "Protestant" tattooed on my forehead?) I let her go, then finally I said, Ma'am, I respect what you're saying, but I'm a Christian, I believe St. Joseph can help me, and I'd like to purchase his statue, small, plastic, not too expensive, please. Now, will you sell it to me?" She politely rang up the sale. Okay, that done, I took...
bailey4 said
on 6/18/2009 Great article on the superstitions used to sell homes. 5*
kimarkent said
on 1/23/2009 do you really believe in all this? just curious? hey, also I found the answer to your problem,, java script error..look in forums, thanks for writing...