Case Study | A Tale of Two Buildings…

This is a case study of a situation in my town. We are a college town… a major University, and two colleges. The oldest school, a small New England ivy league college, has a beautiful historic campus and owns many buildings all over downtown.
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One building in this case is an historic inn, restaurant and meeting venue on the town common, built in the 1800′s and which has been open in it’s present incarnation since 1920 or so. It is owned by the college.

The college planned a major renovation to start in November of 2008. In preparation there had been a zoning change to accommodate the expansion and two historic homes had been yanked from their foundations and moved to new locations.

Although the college is substantially endowed, when the market crashed a decision was taken to close the inn as planned, but not do the $20 Million renovation and expansion until the economy rebounds.

The other building is a former Baptist Church long ago converted to retail space on the ground floor with offices on upper stories. It stand directly opposite the inn on the other side of the common

Since I had a client in one of the spaces in this building I had done some clearing work specific to their space and was familiar with the issues at this building.

In May of 2008 I had a visitor from Australia. Maggie Landman calls herself an ‘Earth Whisperer’ and specializes in the energy of land. Her work dealing with these issues has similar effects to the methods I use. She came from almost exactly the other side of the planet to meet me. We wanted to learn each others methods and techniques.

While walking around town we looked at many building and taught each other our techniques by clearing various problems we noticed. A number of homes and businesses got ‘freebies.’ In effect, we did thousands of dollars of pro bono work.

One building we treated was the church building on the common. We each used our methods to clear issues at this property. Maggie showed me her method based on issues created by the interaction of underground water and the energy meridians of the land called ‘ley’ lines. I taught her my proprietary method of ‘Quantum Grid Restructuring’, which clears the energy grids of the structure removing, among other things, historic drama and traumas. We saw a marked improvement and strolled away with nobody the wiser.

This property was not on the market. Nonetheless, months later, out of the blue, the college bought the church for office space, paying twice market value for it, a reported $2.3 Million. Renovations will be required.

Same college. Same economy. Two building perhaps 300 feet apart on opposite sides of the town common. One at which a planned renovation was postponed indefinitely and one that was purchased for twice market value in spite of not being on the market.

Coincidence? If I didn’t do this work for a living I might believe that. But I know what we cleared at the church. I have also scanned the inn and it is obvious that it is haunted and the two buildings that were moved were haunted. It is not uncommon for ghosts to create enormous resistance to major renovations that change ‘their’ place.

The owners of the church got a real bonus from our training exercise. Historic buildings always have issues. Whatever happened there is still there. But, these issues can be mitigated, in this case with startling results.

If you are curious, read the original stories as reported in the local newspaper The Daily Hampshire Gazette.  Online at www.GazetteNet.com …

College halts expansion plans

College pays $2.3 million for offices

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Originally posted on Active Rain Real Estate Network March 24 2009