Buried Saint Sells Property

Burying a statuette of St. Joseph on the property will help speed the sale of a home.

Many realtors have their "Believe It or Not" stories. Such was the case of a woman who moved from Maryland to Arizona.

After eight months of paying the mortgage on her unsold home in Baltimore, she sent her agent a statue and burial instructions.

Within two weeks, the house sold.

Another case involved a couple moving because of a new job. But their house, which was in a very active neighborhood, wasn't doing anything, even with St. Joseph in the ground. But St. Joseph's presumed inattention turned out to be for the better. The husband got a better job offer, and that's when the house sold.

In 1995, Betsy Moyer was determined to sell her house on Lake Avenue in Baltimore at a premium. She listed it for $15,000 more than other sellers in the same neighborhood. After seven quiet months a friend recommended that Moyer plant St. Joseph.

The next week a group of nuns arrived to look at the house. Three months later, the house was sold at the highest price ever in that area, according to her agent.