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Portland Metropolitan Association of Realtors® | August 16, 2010The “Other” Side of PMAR by: Elissa Gavette, PMAR communications assistant “You ever feel the prickly things on the back of your neck? And the tiny hairs on your arm, you know when they stand up? That’s them,” whispers Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense. Whether it’s a ghost haunting your listing or just a feeling clients get when they walk in, the team at Energy Shifter says there are ways to help. Energy Shifter is just one of the many organizations offering their supernatural services to Realtors® with properties that are not selling. “People spend lots of money staging houses, and that’s fine, but a house that doesn’t feel good won’t sell,” said Sharon Sinclair, founder of Energy Shifter and author of “Shift the Energy – Change Your Life.” Although ghosts are the number one reason Energy Shifter is called in to residential houses, the team said that space clearing has been picking up among real estate agents because of the economy. “There are so many sad reasons that people are leaving their homes – foreclosure, bankruptcy, divorce, etc.,” Sinclair said. “It’s a very difficult thing to let go when you’re being forced out and that negative energy stays in the house.” Signs of bad energy can be as subtle as an uncomfortable feeling people get when they walk in a room, to literally following in the footsteps of the owners before (whether it be financial hardship, divorce or illness). |
Both Sinclair and fellow team member Lisa Heacock have noticed an increasing curiosity in supernatural services driven by the receptiveness of younger generations and by mainstream exposure. Sinclair noted in a recent episode of “Selling New York” on HGTV, they called an energy cleanser to help with a difficult property. “With real estate agents, it’s really the younger generation that is seeking us out and looking for new ways to sell property that isn’t selling,” Heacock said. Although the process is always different depending on what the team detects in the house, Sinclair and Heacock are adamant anyone has the ability to improve the energy or clear it of an unwanted presence. “To feel energy and hear spirits, you really just have to listen,” Sinclair explained. “To be honest, if you do buy a run down place and you remodel it, it shifts the energy.” Sinclair added, “You’re putting that love and care into the house. So people, in a way, do space clearing on their own.” The overall hope of the team at Energy Shifter is with the rise and focus on green energy, green buildings and green spaces, people will recognize they need to look at all the layers of a property, not just the surface. As their motto says, “When you change the energy in a place, you change the person who lives there.” |