Creative Selling in real estate

Two stories have caught my eye over the last few days about new creative ways to sell homes.

Brubaker-Culton Real Estate is offering a free pet with the sale of a house. They are giving vouchers good for an animal of choice at a local shelter.

I hope it works out, I really do. Having a pet can make a home "complete".

But it's bad enough that humans do stupid things and buy houses they can't afford and end up out on the street. Being an animal lover I worry about animals who often end up as victims of our thoughtlessness and stupidity. I guess being in a loving home, even if the worst happens and the animal has to go back to the shelter, is better than the animal living its entire life in an animal shelter.

The other story is from the Minneapolis Star Tribune about homeowners making a leap of faith. Sellers are burying statues of St. Joseph by their For Sale signs in the hopes that he will bring their asking price, apparently.

Ah, the real estate market must have shifted, can you feel it?