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A Place of Honor.

Laugh if you will, but I am a believer. Call it fantasy, hocus pocus, or superstition.
There is a story, perhaps a wives’ tale, that if you bury a statue of St. Joseph on the grounds of a home that is for sale that the home will sell faster.
As a young boy, I was taught that St. Joseph was a carpenter. I do not think he ever sold real estate, so I am not sure where the belief that he is the patron saint of real estate agents originated.
But why tempt fate?
Over the years I have made it a practice to bury a St. Joseph statue at the home of all my listings, including my own when it was for sale.
There have been a lot of different opinions as to how St. Joseph should be employed. Some say upside down in the front yard. Others say in the back yard facing the house. Still, others say facing away from the house. But that technique always concerned me that the house across the street will sell and not mine.
I once read a story about a seller that did not believe St. Joseph can help sell a house. He dug up the statue and ... more

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