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<text id=90TT2651>
<title>
Oct. 08, 1990: Business Notes:Housing
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Oct. 08, 1990 Do We Care About Our Kids?
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 66
Business Notes
HOUSING
My Realtor, The Saint
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<body>
<p> With the real estate market slumping, some homeowners think
it takes a miracle to sell a house these days. Not just any
broker can perform one, so many sellers are turning to an
expert: St. Joseph. Religious-goods merchants in several cities
have been surprised at the brisk sales of St. Joseph statues,
which homeowners bury in their yards in the belief the saint
will drum up some business. The hopeful sellers inter the
statues headfirst, with the feet toward heaven.
</p>
<p> Believers have sought the saint's help in household matters
for centuries. St. Joseph, a carpenter, was handy around the
house, after all. The Catholic Church has no objection to such
appeals for intercession, but brokers, complained Father James
Coen, head of the Catholic Information Center, to the New York
Daily News, "are turning this into a first-class sales gimmick."
Successful sellers are advised to exhume the statue and enshrine
it in their new home. Co-op owners who have no yards may have
to pray to someone else: St. Jude, patron of lost causes.
</p>
</body>
</article>
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