Statue Offers Homeowners a ‘Prayer’ of Hope
So far in 2008 nearly 240,000 households have been facing some stage of the foreclosure process on average every month. Even those homeowners who are not currently facing foreclosure may be at some point in time if they can’t sell their home. And then there’s those homeowners who just want to sell but don’t necessarily have to.
No matter why they are trying to sell, today’s declining market is bad enough that some homeowners are starting to look at alternative options for intervention, choosing not to wait for government entities that promise to offer up a ray of hope a day late and a dollar short.
According to a recent poll, government intervention is not the kind many buyers are looking to these days. Feeling that they don’t stand a prayer against the big bad lender who is either about to take their home away from them, or making it difficult for them to line up a buyer who qualifies for a loan, they are looking to something else…divine intervention!
Commissioned by the St. Joseph Statue organization, the poll revealed that nearly one-third of adults (23.5 million) would consider asking their real estate agent to bury a four-inch statue of St. Joseph in their yard if it would help sell their home in today’s sluggish economy.
We’d like to know if you’ve heard of statue-burying sellers in your community or if you are one yourself.