Feng Shui’s Influence
* I’ve been lying awake at night recently worrying that Southern California is losing its world leadership in faddishness, looniness and outright quackery. No more! Thanks to your April 18 article on feng shui and its eruption into the real estate market, I know that vigorous efforts are being made regionwide to retain leadership of the zanies into the foreseeable future.
On the other hand, I will continue to lie awake wondering how The Times could have sunk its once exemplary news and feature pages to their current low state. The front-page column ingenuously points to the biweekly feng shui column in the Real Estate section as an indicator of interest in feng shui without acknowledging that column’s clearly major role in driving the feng shui craze.
NATHANIEL GROSSMAN
Los Angeles
* It was interesting to read that it is bad feng shui that results in a 10% drop in market value for houses located at the top of a T intersection. Being a real estate appraiser since 1982, I learned early that a house located at a T intersection usually suffered locational obsolescence (and, hence, loss of market value) because of both the car headlights pointing into the house at night and the better chance of a car driving into that house because of failure to make the left or right turn.
It’s nice to be “re-educated” that the “10% loss in market value” was really based on feng shui metaphysical philosophy rather than concrete reality.
LINDSAY McMENAMIN
La Crescenta
* I’ve located a great house to buy in Orange County, but I’m caught in a dilemma: Do I hire a feng shui expert to study the chi of the location or just flip a coin?
STEVE LEE
La Habra
