I recently got to know a mom at the school who has been looking for her dream house in San Diego since 2001. We instantly have a click talking about Feng shui and the house searching. She told me that she was looking for a good deal at the start of her search. She looked a lot of bank owned and foreclosure houses. Then she found out that all of those houses had serious problems in the view of Feng Shui. She then gave up seeing any foreclosures.
Isn't that interesting?
I also came across an article on this issue:
RealEstate.msn.com reports, “almost 500,000 foreclosures were filed in the first
Almost 500,000 foreclosures were filed in the first quarter of 2007. (IStock Photo)
quarter of 2007. There was one new foreclosure for every 1,117 U.S. households in January 2006 compared to the same period a year earlier.”
However, in the brave new world of home buying, one persons’ misfortune can quickly become someone else’s fortune. Typically, investors looking to buy a home for less than its market value, find foreclosure homes very lucrative. Consumers going the foreclosure route can find family homes with high market prices and only pay half its value, saving them thousands of dollars.
Feng Shui
But while going the foreclosure route has its financial advantages, the property itself may be draped in bad luck. Kathryn Weber, a certified master practitioner in feng shui and the publisher of Red Lotus Letter, a weekly ezine, suggests buying foreclosures could perpetuate “bad energy.”
In her article, “How to Buy a House with Good Feng Shui,” featured in Selfgrowth.com, Weber suggests buying feng shui comes down to two things:
1.) The tangible items: price, location, size, and condition.
2.) The intangible location on a street; how the home is situated on the lot; its relationship to other buildings or homes; how the home flows inside; and situations such as whether the former occupants were ill, in financial trouble, etc.
Positive Energy
“If you are looking at a preowned home, buy one from someone who is moving into a bigger house or got a huge promotion and is relocating,” Weber suggests. “Houses that are for sale from a divorce, a foreclosure, or where there was serious illness or other afflictions are not the best choices.”
Recycling the Past
As the new owner, you may be walking into the prospective home with a clean slate. But according to feng shui principles, when you buy a home, you also buy the problems that existed at that home with the previous owner. The reason behind the bad energy—the house itself. “Or, there might be a landscape or topographical element causing the difficulty.” Weber says it’s best to avoid these kinds of homes.
Whether you’re a believer in this ancient Chinese practice or not, don’t always judge a house simply on its price tag. Sometimes you have to look beyond the walls to really see its worth.
