Feng Shui for Investment Property
Are you the owner of an investment property?
The base of Feng Shui is the premise that your environment affects you in both obvious and non-obvious ways. As an extension of that, people sometimes wonder if you can be affected by a property you do not dwell in, but own.
On a certain level, we can say that everyone affects everyone else. There has to be some kind of relationship between the owner and their physical property. But that relationship is usually a mere shadow of influence in comparison to the people who actually occupy the building or house. People seeking to buy investment property call me to find out if they should be concerned about the Feng Shui for income property. I always have a few questions for them before answering.
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First and foremost, I have to ask the investment property owner-to-be if there is even an iota of a chance that they will live in the house themselves one day. If there is a chance that the person will live in the house sometime in the future, then it behooves them to follow through with a comprehensive evaluation. This is a service that many classically trained practitioners provide. We can not only calculate how the house will affect current occupants. We can even predict how it may affect occupants decades into the future.
Some properties improve over time, and others go through undesirable cycles that can last for as much as twenty years. Perhaps the person knows for sure that they will not ever live in the investment property. Then we have to contemplate just how much, if anything, they can do on behalf of their prospective tenants.
Landlords and tenants, relationships and settings
Landlords cannot really dictate how a renter uses the rooms, such as a sleeping room compared to a home office. Landlords cannot ask a tenant to use one entry door over another. Landlords cannot mandate what colors an occupant uses, except pre-choosing wall colors or flooring. In a typical setting, practitioners will make recommendations to clients for colors and natural elements. Incorporate these into the rooms with furnishings and other décor items. A landlord cannot insist that a tenant adheres to any of these suggestions.
Some of the most powerful adjustments to make are on the outside, such as water features like a garden fountain. But you can’t insist that a renter uses a fountain or maintain it. These are just a few examples of how limited the landlord is, even in a well-meaning situation where the landlord would like to help their tenants be healthy, happy and prosperous.
Rental spaces for business safety and employees
The property owner can, in fact, be indirectly affected by the Feng Shui of their rental spaces. One example is the house or apartment which can undermine financial luck. There is always the chance that this kind of energy could come back to the owner if their tenant sometimes struggles to pay the rent. There are so many variables to consider. The owner may have a rental where the Feng Shui indicates the occupants may be vulnerable to legal problems, crime, injuries, theft, marital strife or mental instabilities. These are some unpleasant situations which could affect the landlord in their legal relationship with the tenants and even safety issues.
As you can imagine, in a commercial environment, similar situations can apply. If the owner of a business does not work at the physical location, he or she may be a lot more concerned about the employees. There would be a much more direct effect on the business owner than the landlord-tenant relationship in a residential situation. And in this setting, the owner would have much more control over how to arrange the interiors and exteriors.
Just as a footnote:
Yin House Feng Shui is the divination of grave sites and the influence it can have on descendants. This is an instance where good or bad Feng Shui can affect a person. They do not have to be physically present themselves to experience it. What differentiates this from the typical landlord-renter relationship is that the there is a genetic-soul-DNA link with the deceased person’s remains and their children or grandchildren. This allows the energy of the grave to influence the living, even if they never visit the grave as well.
