SecretGarden
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davenlei said:As I said in the past, my address of the home I sold in Irvine a few years ago had a '4' in it and it did scare away several potential buyers. I also had a potential buyer walk away from the house and never enter if because she said the door was at an angle to the front of the house and not parallel to it. Kinda funny that grown adults would let such benign things affect their major life decisions.
So with the '4' issue, is everyone born in April or the 4th, 14, and 24th of each month screwed? Will all potential spouses run away as soon as they find out when their boyfriend/girlfriend was born? Will Asians avoid having kids in 2014? I can see the news report "Mystery drop in Asian birth rate in 2014".
So silly...
I agree, it's SO silly it almost kills me. I hate buying into the ridiculous superstitions and I would normally just brush them off but when the Asian buyers are so strong as in Irvine, I want to know what they're thinking and why they're turned off by certain properties.
Whenever I see a property listed on redfin and it doesn't move for a month or more, I mentally go down the list:
(1) is there a 4 in the address?
(2) is it a T intersection house?
(3) is it an L intersection house?
(4) does the entry open directly to stairs?
Gimme a break, right? Ha ha ha... but I'm thinking about these things now because I don't want to have these obstacles when I go and try to resell if it were to come to that!