Thinking of selling your home ? Is your home reflecting your “inner wealth” pattern?  The energy of your home has an impact on the ability to sell your home quickly.  I read this article from Kathryn Weber, Feng Shui Consultant and thought I’d share it with you.  It is quite interesting and I think you’ll agree with her.  Your home says a lot about you. Want more information about this and many other related real estate topics? Sign up for our newsletter (see form in right margin of this blog), or on our Facebook Page.

Creating Wealthy Habits to Manifest Prosperity

6 Key Habits that Magnetize You with Wealth Energy

There’s a saying that success is just the accumulation of good habits. It’s true. The more you do to help yourself and to be successful, the more successful – and prosperous – you’ll become. Success and the wealth and acclaim that comes with it isn’t as much a secret as much as it is a habit.

Having a happy home life, successful career, ability to go and buy what you like when you want it, this brings happiness is true wealth. There are many people who have money, but lack wealth. Recently, my husband and I are shopping for a new home. The houses are beautiful, but there is little furniture, or what’s there is of poor quality.

It’s as though the owner’s money went into the homes, but there was no money to furnish the beautiful home with beautiful belongings. Is that a wealthy homeowner? No.

That’s the paradox of wealth. Having money (or a big house or a nice car) doesn’t mean you are wealthy any more than breathing makes you healthy. Having real wealth is about having a beautiful home, but also the ability to furnish it beautifully.

Real wealth means you may have a wonderful car and beautiful home – but you also have accumulated wealth. Accumulated wealth brings security, comfort, and is relaxing.

But bringing money into your life requires healthy wealth habits to help maintain it. I see clients often who say they have plenty of money coming in when I ask them how their financial status is, yet their homes are like leaking ships – and I wonder how long they will stay afloat. You may be at the point in this program that you are thinking you have too much feng shui to do!

I promise you, though, that if you will work at it and build on it, the feng shui you have built will gain momentum and will increase with time — and accumulate. My goal is to help you to develop true wealth – the kind that helps you to relax, feel confident and secure – and have fun with it, too!

If you’ve read the passage “Paradox of Our Age” by the Dalai Lama, you’ll understand the wealth energy that I am trying to impart to you. It’s about true wealth; not just money. Real wealth is the abundant, accumulated resource that’s there for you to use as you wish when you wish, and that keeps your family and security safeguarded.

Money is easy, but simple money can become meaningless when it is only money and not wealth. Creating wealthy habits will have the effect of lifting your personal energy – and that is a powerful attractant to real wealth.

1. Repair broken energy.

Broken energy comes from, well, broken things. When your door scrapes against the threshold, it imbues your home with negative, irrigating energy.

If your dishes are chipped, you are eating off of broken energy. This drains positive wealth energy and makes your house drained and more yin. Our houses must be energized and broken things bring the energy level down — and that affects our prosperity. Keep your clothes, your home, your car and your doors in good working order. What’s broken that is draining your energy?

2. Putting wealth in, not just out.

Too often in our lives, we become accustomed to money flowing in and out of our lives — and not accumulating. The money comes in, the bills get paid, and the money flows right back out again. Energizing your home and life for wealth means putting energy INTO it.

This includes making deposits into your accounts. Get into the habit of putting money in instead of just paying out. This energy builds over time — and so does your bank account. And you’d be surprised how that will make you feel.

Do you even have a retirement or savings account? If so, set up automatic weekly or monthly withdrawals. Or, join Bank of America’s program that rounds off purchases to the nearest dollar and puts the extra amount into a savings account.

Do you buy a large Diet Coke or coffee every day? Stop and then put that money into a piggy bank. A $1.50 drink each day amounts to $547 at the end of a year! Are you drinking $500′s worth of diet sodas? What’s important is that you see yourself as ACCUMULATING money, not just being a pass-thru for it.

3. Energize your home.

Keep your home energized with fresh paint, lush landscaping. Just like an employer matching your 401K, match your home with an investment in beautifying and updating your surroundings. Unlike a car, money put into a home will be an investment that will pay you back in energy — and if you sell it — in dollars. More importantly, by energizing your home, you magnetize your home for wealth energy.

Landscaping is a very important ingredient because it brings vital dragon energy to the home. Lush flowers, trees and plants are healthy and invigorating and lift the energy of the house.

4. Energize your image.

Many times when someone doesn’t feel good or like they look good, they have a stuffed closet. A closet that’s rammed with shoes and clothes that are outdated will cause you to feel outdated too! If you are ready to “look the part” of a wealthy, happy and abundantly prosperous person, turn to your closet to get rid of the clothing that no longer suits you or is part of an outdated image.

If you have weight to lose, this could be even more important for you! Pare down your closet – including those articles of clothing that you used to fit it but haven’t in a long time. Wealth energy means moving energy and when you are stuck in an old look and outdated image, this can stop the energy flowing to you.

5. Energize your finances.

Get a red wallet and checkbook, put your investment and banking account information and statements in red folders, write checks in red ink. Put bills into blue or black folders so they aren’t energized. Have a small basket to hold bills — and keep it small so your bills stay small. Clean out and organize your financial files and your purse or wallet. Streamline your credit cards so that you don’t have too many, limiting them to three or less. Add grains of sea salt to your wallet to “draw” money, just like sea water will draw soreness away from achy muscles!

6. Believe.

Do you believe you can be wealthy and prosperous? Do you think you deserve it? Do you really FEEL that way or are you just intellectualizing it? It’s so important that you believe you are worthy of being a prosperous person, someone who doesn’t just make a living, but makes a life with the money you earn. Observe your thoughts about wealth and money and see if it’s really not you who is standing in the way of money.

Lillian Too always said that you must believe you deserve abundance before abundance will make its way to you. Spend time thinking about your thoughts about money and wealth and ask yourself, what could you do today, right now, that could change your financial picture?

© Kathryn Weber, All rights reserved

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We often hear clients and just about everyone else expressing views they’ve heard from random sources about the state of the real estate market in the Palm Springs area. They sometimes repeat things that simply are not accurate and bear no relation to reality. We are not about hyperbole and anectdotal “evidence” that purports to support the unsupportable.  Objective statistics are difficult to refute.  The truth is that the Coachella Valley really is an anomaly and that the real estate market here is verifiably “hot”, despite the opposite experience of continued slow real estate sales at depressed prices in many other regions. What follows may surprise you, but it is definitely reason to stop procrastinating if you are a serious buyer or seller of Palm Springs area real estate. 

Let’s begin with a Desert Sun article that appeared in late March:

AREA HOME SALES BUCK TREND, UP, 7.3 PERCENT
Other regions saw drops in February; ‘People want to live here,’ broker explains
12:42 PM, Mar. 25, 2011 |

Written by
MIKE PERRAULT
The Desert Sun

Home sales rose 7.3 percent in February across the Coachella Valley compared to the same month a year ago, bucking a downward trend in Southern California and the nation.

The latest monthly home-sales tally also rose considerably from January, La Jolla-based DataQuick Information Systems reported.

The 848 existing homes, condos and newly built homes that sold last month in the valley was up from 727 in January, DataQuick reported.

Brisk sales of previously occupied condos — a nearly 31 percent hike in year-over-year sales — helped boost the valley’s real estate market, analysts and real estate professionals said.

The Coachella Valley’s home sales increase last month compared to an 11.2 percent drop for all of Riverside County and a 6.4 percent drop across Southern California.
Nationwide, sales of existing homes fell 9.6 percent in February compared to the same month a year ago, the lowest level since November, the National Association of Realtors reported.

The latest monthly home-sales figures illustrate how tough it is to compare the valley’s real estate market with the rest of Southern California or even other parts of Riverside County, said Jim Franklin, president of the Palm Springs Regional Association of Realtors.

“We’re unique here in the Palm Springs-Coachella Valley,” said Franklin, a broker associate with Prudential California Realty. “People want to live here; it’s not like they have to live here. So our market holds up pretty steady.”

The valley’s median price — half sold for more, half for less — was $200,000 in February, the same as February 2010, DataQuick reported. That was up from $181,250 in January.

Southern California’s median price was $275,000 in February, DataQuick reported.
Positive factors
Analysts with DataQuick and the California Association of Realtors said there appears to be enough potential demand that the pace of home sales is expected to increase over the next several months.

Low prices, low mortgage rates, available credit, signs of job growth and improving consumer confidence are among factors that could help boost home sales this spring, said John Walsh, DataQuick president.

“There’s pent-up demand out there,” Walsh said. “Lots of people have been waiting for the right time to buy.”

The Coachella Valley is getting into its prime season, with May typically one of the busiest months, Franklin said.

“At the end of the season, people start buying,” he said. “I think if people don’t buy this year, they’re going to come back and say, ‘Boy, I should have bought this.’”

Franklin said condos are selling well because many out-of- town owners perceive them as easy to care for and they’re priced well at a time when the inventory of lower priced single-family homes is waning in some valley cities.

Sales of newly built homes continued to struggle in the valley, in part because builders are faced with steep competition from foreclosed and other distressed properties.

The figure of 30 newly built homes that sold in the valley during February was down 48 percent drop from February 2010, DataQuick reported. In January, 23 new homes sold, a 39 percent drop from a year ago.

Foreclosure factor
Leslie Appleton-Young, chief economist for the California Association of Realtors, said a big decline in the median price statewide in January could primarily be attributed to the brief moratorium that some banks placed on foreclosures last fall.

As the foreclosures resumed, Appleton-Young said more distressed properties came onto the market, which led to an uptick in sales of lower-priced homes in January. It’s a trend likely to continue as lenders expedite the disposition of those properties, Appleton- Young said.

DataQuick analysts observed that foreclosure resales made up 37.1 percent of all existing home sales in February across Southern California, which was up from 36.8 percent in January but down from 42.4 percent a year ago.

Short sales — transactions in which properties are sold for less that what is owed — made up about 19.8 percent of all home resales in Southern California in February, DataQuick reported.
CDAR officials have joined the California Association of Realtors to urge banks, government officials and others with a stake in the housing market to make short sales easier, faster and more efficient.

Some homebuyers have been frustrated having to wait as many as three months for banks to respond do short sale offers.

Greg Berkemer, CDAR executive director, said “we know our market is recovering,” even if fluctuations in sales and prices is uneven or choppy from month to month.

Want  some more data? Here is documentation presented by the California Desert Association of Realtors that corroborates  the Desert Sun article above. 

Have a look at this graph below for an illustration of the implications of waiting to buy.  Not only are prices rising, but an increase in interest rates will profoundly impact the “deal” you want - and not in a way that will make you happy.

Windermere Real Estate has assembled some very telling stats. You will see how dominant the brokerage is over its competition, but – perhaps more importantly - the large volume of real estate transactions taking place in the Palm Springs area . While the doomsayers would have the uneducated believe that the market is flat, now we all can prove that this is hardly the reality! 

With the 8.9 magnitude earthquake in Japan in the headlines, we extend our heartfelt empathy and condolences to the people of Japan. We are also reminded of our own vulnerability in California. As much as we’ve talked about the beautiful resort area of Palm Springs, we must also be mindful of the potential of an earthquake throughout California. Small tremblors tend to go relatively unnoticed and we tend to grow complacent. But what about a significant quake? It’s a good time for some reminders.

We all know that we must assemble an “Earthquake Preparedness Kit”, but most people aren’t sure what to include.  The list below provides the essentials.   

Perhaps most important is a plan:

1.  Where will you meet if your family is not together when an earthquake strikes?

2.  Have you arranged to have a list of all your prescription medicines, dosages and instructions online on a service such as GoogleDocs where you or someone out-of-area can access it for you or your doctors?

3.  Do you have an evacuation plan if you are in a building or a gated community? 

4.  Does your Homeowners Association have a plan for checking on the safety of all in the development?

5.  Have you appointed an out-of state contact who can coordinate communication in the event of phone and/or Internet service being down?

6.  Would a gas power generator make sense to include in your kit? 

7.  Have you taken a first aid and CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) course?

For more ideas, please see “10 Ways You Can Be Disaster Prepared” on the California Emergency Management Agency Website. 

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