Re: St. Joseph in the yard
Frankly, my wife did all of this too. It was something she'd heard at work and I think it's ridiculous.
We had much better luck after we dug him up and lowered the price. Our house was on the market for over a year, and our listing agent (to get the listing I am sure) comped us much higher than we even thought we should get. But hey, he's the pro - so we went with it. As the time went by, we lowered the price and his listing expired. Another agent brought us a buyer (in January) who'd been looking for 2 years for the perfect house. I asked why didn't you come see it last year? Of course the answer was "It was priced too high". So, after another year of mortgage payments, I sold (I hope - we have a tentative closing date of next Thursday) to someone who would have bought my house a year before but I had it listed too high. By the way, we actually got the price we originally had in our heads before the "professional" blinded us with dollar signs.
So dig up poor St Joseph and set a price that works in today's market!
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