Selling a home, remove religious crosses, statues, stars?

[Anonymous]

apologize in advance if this offends, but -- isn't there a thing where Catholics selling a house bury the Virgin upside down in the yard?

[Anonymous]

https://asksistermarymartha.blogspot.com/2007/03/up-above-clouds.html

St. Joseph is my realtor /jk

[Anonymous]

One cross is fine. I'd think you were a nutcase but it wouldn't stop me from buying the house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So do you think Jews should remove the mezuzah from the front door, because it would offend or be a distraction to buyers?

Unless we move before we sell, that will remain up as a subtle reminder to other Jews that we are not an easy mark for negotiations and to see how many goyim mistake it for a doorbell.

The Ketuba is coming down, though.

I thought that the word goy and goyim was derogatory and not part of common speech anymore

[Anonymous]

Doesn’t bother me. When we were looking at houses, we did not pay attention to any superficial decorating. It all goes away, so why spend any time on it. The whole “staging” thing is ridiculous to me. I don’t mind personal photos. I don’t mind clutter. Hoarding yes, because you don’t know what is under or behind it it and it makes you wonder what they have neglected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boy, not a lot of Italians or Irish on this thread! We grew up with a crucifix or small altar in every room plus often a Madonna painting or a bloody Jesus heart (referred to as the Sacrd Heart). I don't think most Catholics are hard to negotiate with in a real estate transaction.
When I was house hunting I didn't like the houses with altars where people burn incense or stuff, mainly because I felt the smell permeated.
I'm also not bothered by family pictures, though. I never understand why people don't want to buy a house unless it looks like one of those furnished corporate residences.

I’m Italian and there was a crucifix in every room (including the bathroom) and rosaries in little bowls next to statues. Some of the religious statues in my grandma’s house were so large and lifelike that they kind of freaked me out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So do you think Jews should remove the mezuzah from the front door, because it would offend or be a distraction to buyers?

There's a huge difference between a little mezuzah and a painting of a bloody Jesus. One is cramming religion down a visitor's throat and the other one is a tiny decoration on the door frame.

Homebuyers aren't visitors. This is a business transaction.

The former owners of my house did not have it decorated in any way that appealed to me. Didn't stop us from buying it.

[Anonymous]

These people don't think so:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/9711-Meadowlark-Rd-Vienna-VA-22182/51744465_zpid/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Boy, not a lot of Italians or Irish on this thread! We grew up with a crucifix or small altar in every room plus often a Madonna painting or a bloody Jesus heart (referred to as the Sacrd Heart). I don't think most Catholics are hard to negotiate with in a real estate transaction.
When I was house hunting I didn't like the houses with altars where people burn incense or stuff, mainly because I felt the smell permeated.
I'm also not bothered by family pictures, though. I never understand why people don't want to buy a house unless it looks like one of those furnished corporate residences.

I don't see the problem, every house in my family has a crucifix in every room and plastic on the living room furniture. Optional picture of the current Pope and some candies in a glass dish.

The pope picture is next to the picture of JFK if it’s in Boston

[Anonymous]

Why would a buyer care?
You are buying the building, property, plants outside

[Anonymous]

Karma. Why the need for the intensity? What made these people so intense? Was it a bad life experience, a real outliner event. If the house has an inordinate number of religious symbols, it gives people pause. If someone was murdered in the house, that would give people pause. What has been so monstrous in these people's lives that their house looks like this. Again, for real outliner cases ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These people don't think so:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/9711-Meadowlark-Rd-Vienna-VA-22182/51744465_zpid/

Forget the icons, the real problem there is the kitchen.

[Anonymous]

This isn't the reason we bought the house, but one house that we looked at had what looked like a guest book in a room filled with religious paraphernalia, but was actually a running list of all the people they wanted to go to hell. We thought about signing it.

[Anonymous]

Yes, remove them but be sure to paint over the outline of the crosses left on the wall. Otherwise it will look like some old person died in that room.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this another hindrance?

Yes.

Same as painting all walls white to make the house as universally attractive as possible.