ST. PAUL, Minnesota — The folklore is well known: Need to sell a house? Bury a statue of St. Joseph in the yard. Maybe wrapped in a cloth. But it must be upside down, near the “For Sale” sign, facing ...

Debbie Hicks is a faithful Catholic and a true believer, but she had to laugh. "It's just so funny," she said. "All the desperation out there." Hicks was chuckling to hear that the measure she ...

Cari Luna is Jewish by heritage and Buddhist by religion. She meditates regularly. Yet when she and her husband put their Brooklyn, N.Y., house on the market this year and offers kept falling through, ...