Dunno ..... I gave up the pagan idol schtick long ago.
I hear you can dig it up when the house closes. In this case my mother wants it.
I came to some relative peace about it while I was praying over the sale of the house that day, apologizing for doing it but asking my efforts be taken as faith.
Who knows........I know God doesn't smack you in the head for trying. He might even find all this quite amuzing.
Me thinks God sees past the motivation and directly at the heart. Or I hope anyway...
I am laughing here thinking of my husband buying a new house & finding St Joseph in the ground, he would think he had a antique or a treasure.
There's nothing wrong with doing it as a sign of devotion. But some people treat it like some cheap trick that they can use to summon the help of God to sell real estate. These are usually people who close on the house and then forget about God until they have to sell the next home.
It comes down to motive and reverence. God certainly doesn't need a buried statue to help you sell your house, but the fact that you made an act of faith by doing something as odd as burying a statue of St. Joseph is what matters.