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How to Sell a Home Quickly in a Terrible Market

by on August 23, 2011 in Blog, General

Out of ideas to sell your property? Give feng shui a try!

It seems these days that many of my feng shui consultations are geared towards selling a home. So, I thought I’d share some information that might help others out there in their desperate search for ways to sell a home quickly. I’ll start by sharing a success story that just came in:

On July 10th I met Karen in-person for my feng shui consultation in New York. The biggest item on my list was getting my house in Florida sold which had been on the market for six months. I had taken out a loan and could only afford to make one more mortgage payment. My sanity was wearing thin as I read the comments from potential buyers who passed on the house. After we moved my stuff I wasn’t sure what would happen, but I remember thinking to myself, “Karen doesn’t seem that worried about this I hope she knows I’m out of options here”. I stuck to her advice and shortly after what seemed like out of the blue my realtor called to say we received a cash offer on the house. A CASH offer for a house in Florida, I couldn’t believe it!!!!! A month to the day that Karen came to my apartment the “contact of sale” was fully signed. As I write this I’m waiting for the payoff check to clear. To everyone reading this, Feng Shui works!!!!!!! The best investment I made this summer was to feng shui my home with Karen Carter. Karen, Namaste….. Tracey G.

Note: Although I oftentimes do actually go to the home that needs to be sold, I did NOT go to Florida to sell this one. I feng shuied HER home in New York to allow HER ENERGIES to shift towards the possibility of selling it. Does this require out-of-the-box-thinking? Maybe. Is it impossible to make a connection between her energies in New York and that home in Florida. No.

If you are new to the magical world of feng shui, let me start by answering some basic questions:

What is feng shui? Feng shui is a method of mindfully creating your living and work environments so that they support what you want to do and who you want to be in life. Just like the line in the movie Bull Durham, “If you build it, they will come,” if you build an environment that supports your health, wealth, love, or even selling a home, it will happen.

Does feng shui really work? Yes. Although it may seem completely counter-intuitive or unrelated, using the ancient/timeless art of feng shui, (which has modern quantum physics written all over it) can actually be your best bet when tackling a challenge that SEEMS impossible because its rules are not based upon your fears or limited, three dimensional perspectives.

Do you need to know what to do? Not necessarily. Luckily, there are many people all over the world that practice this art now and it is as easy as an online search to find someone to help you. My advise is to interview potential consultants to see how long they have been practicing, what kind of results they have gotten for their clients, what style of feng shui they practice (there are many styles, you might want to do a little research on the style you prefer before hiring.)

I have trained consultants all over the world. If you can’t find one on your own, I may be able to hook you up with one if you email me your information to support@karenrauchcarter.com.

If you need an easy introduction into feng shui before deciding, Here’s the link to my national best-selling book. You can even read the first chapter before you buy it. I get tons of success stories (like the one above) from people who just used my book, so you might want to try using it before hiring someone. It’s easier than you might think to do!

Don’t want to read? I’ve created some Top feng shui tips for selling a home and top tips when buying a home.

If you came to this article from a desperate search on the internet because you’ve “tried everything” to sell that house without success, what have you got to lose?

Karen

PS, As well as on-site consultations, I also do telephone consultations and get great results for my clients.

 

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Does Feng Shui Really Work? Absolutely!

by on October 25, 2010 in Blog, De-Cluttering, General, Helpful People and Travel, Success Stories, Wealth and Abundance

Last week I did a consultation for a gal who has turned a home into a Board and Care home for senior citizens.  She had it ready for months and had many people come to check it out, but not a single one of them signed up. She did admit that the first “renter” is usually the hardest to get, but she was really stumped as to why this home was not getting renters. It had a golf course view right out the back door, and had plenty of nice living space and many bedroom choices to rent. This is the third home that she has converted, so she is not new to the field.

During the consultation, I treated this home in a couple of ways. I looked at it as if I was someone who was going to live there. I pointed out anything that I felt “was off message” like dirt/grime, personalized trinkets, as well as clutter. (She  was living there until she got the first renter.) This is the same tactic that I use when I’m trying to sell a home for a client. No one wants to move into a room that has dirty baseboards, grime in the closet door track, left-behind things in closets, nicks in the wall paint, and dirty windows. These things REALLY jump out – especially when there is no furniture in the room like some of these bedrooms.

I also tried to “tell the story” of how a renter would live there – similar to how you might stage a home to sell. We created a “game room” (complete with the game on the table in the sun room,)  a TV/computer lounge, a family-style dining room, and a few outdoor seating areas that made the most of the gardens and golf course view.

One of these outdoor seating areas was just outside the front of the house where one bedroom had french doors to the front garden. The problem with this set of doors is that they competed with the front door — to be more specific, they actually won out over the front door because they were visible from the street but the front door was not. So, we placed a bistro table and chairs to “block” the french doors and make them look like a private patio space instead of a possible front door. We then set about to add more “front door clues” along the sidewalk between the real front door and the sidewalk (colorful whirly-gig, chime, etc.) to easily guide people to the formal front door.

Of course we did space clearing and employ the helpful people box cure to set the intentions as well, …and voila! Seven days later, after months and months of waiting for a renter, she had someone sign up. She made over 8 times the money she paid me, and will be receiving that amount each and every month while that renter is there! Now that’s a direct financial success, right? Woo-hoo!

Her husband, who wasn’t on board at all with her spending the money to have me do a feng shui consultation, is now on board with any feng shui ANYTHING she wants to do. Does feng shui really work? You bet!  :)

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