Superstition, Prayer and Frustrated Pleas to Sell Listings? Worked for These Guys...

Prayer

We have two agents in our office who, for about the last year and a half, have had what we've come to call, "career listings". You know, those certain listings that you really want to sell, but fear that in your heart of hearts never, ever will.

These poor ladies - every week at the office meeting they've had to endure questions from us, their peers: "So, how's your listing in ___?"

"It's still there..." is the usual reply. We can all relate, can't we?

Well, this past weekend one of the agents(let's call her Sharon) walks in the door and loudly exclaims, "OH MY GOSH! I just sold (let's call her Pammy)'s listing!" Now, "Pammy" has a number of listings, but we all knew the one she was talking about. Then she says, "and my sellers got an offer on their house!" We knew which listing she was talking about there too. Needless to say we broke out in applause. We were truly happy for these ladies because it's been a long hard road for them to get these listings sold.

Yes, it took a year and a half of hard work, but to what else does "Sharon" give credit for this? Lots of prayer. In fact, she had a prayer group of 20 people praying for these transactions to come together after all else failed.

Now, we all know that we can't conclusively determine that this was the reason for the sale. Then again, the power of prayer has been widely discussed and documented. Why not give it a try?

Frustrated Pleas

I have some listings in my Listing Cart that I am watching for a client. A week ago, I noticed that a new comment had been added to the Marketing Remarks of one of those listings.

It read: "FOR THE LOVE OF !@**?#! PEOPLE! WHAT'S TAKING YOU SO LONG? BUY THIS ALREADY!!!

I just checked on it today. It's Pending.

Superstition

I don't really have a personal story for this, but I am intrigued by the number of accounts that I hear about sellers and real estate agents resorting to burying St. Joseph statues in the yard. People who have done this have sworn by its success, they say that provided that you and your seller BELIEVE in the power of St. Joseph and open your mind to the possibility that this can work, it indeed will.

Well, at this point I'm open to anything. So I'm off in search of five St. Joseph statues; while I'm at it I think I'll rummage through some boxes to see if I can find that container of holy water that someone brought back for me from the Vatican. It can't hurt, right?

UPDATE: What a coinky-dinky! I just looked at the blogroll and saw Sharon Cobb's blog about St. Joseph working for her. Check it out: http://activerain.com/blogsview/1106721/any-realtors-out-there-using-st-joseph-and-i-m-not-talking-about-aspirins-

P.S. I hope no one's offended that I refer to ST. Joseph as a superstition. I'm just using that at its most literal definition. I don't believe religion is superstitious, and have respect for all religions!

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I am an Associate Broker and Marketing Specialist with Prudential Northwest Realty Associates. I specialize in homes located in the Burien/North Highline/West Seattle area, and I am here to serve all of your Real Estate needs.
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