Zen Like — What does that even mean?

ZenAbout a month ago I drove past this sign. It was in the front yard of a home that was for sale (It may still be, I don’t know). The home sits at a very busy inter­sec­tion — the cross­roads of two state routes adja­cent to the inter­state and across from a shop­ping cen­ter. A high traf­fic loca­tion to be sure. What caught my atten­tion was not the house, but rather the com­ment on the sign in the front yard. “Zen Like” I thought to myself, could there be any house that is Less Zen Like? It is prob­a­bly a lovely home. I wish the sell­ers luck in find­ing a buyer, but “Zen Like.” What? Then as I thought more, I real­ized I don’t even know what the heck that phrase means. If you know, please tell me. Is the idea less is more? Seems like a funny way to sell a home. I will give this real­tor credit for grab­bing my atten­tion, and not resort­ing to “Price Reduced” like my for­mer real­tor did only two weeks after we listed our house. The prob­lem is the sign con­fused the heck out of me instead of mak­ing me inter­ested in buy­ing the house. Maybe this works, maybe it doesn’t. I don’t know. I do know that for 6 or 7% I would expect more…or maybe I should say less. Maybe this free post will help the sell­ers find an inter­ested buyer — another “zen like” con­cept. By the way, is there a dif­fer­ence between Zen and Zen Like?


Comments

  1. David Esrati says:

    The dog is zen like–
    the house is not.

    obi wan.

  2. Jim says:

    It caught my atten­tion too. At least the real­tor didn’t put a clown on the corner.

  3. Samantha says:

    The sign is gone.I go past there daily and took a shot of it to post on Flickr because it tick­led my funny bone, it is an unzen­like house in a VERY unzen location.

    Just as bad was the house next to it(on 48)that had a sign that said “It Rocks”.…do they mean the house rocks when the trucks go fly­ing past?

    Either way, it is an inter­est­ing mar­ket­ing concept,I just hope they lower the prices because per­son­ally I think $129,000 is ask­ing a bit much given the location.

    Glad to see that I am not the only one who found this sign interesting.Cheers!

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