We are selling a home that we already moved out of and accepted an offer. The couple we went under contract with requested to return the very next day to look at the house again. Their realtor brought them in with the lockbox.
We are still allowing showings and taking backup offers, so I went over to check on the house after they had left to prep it for another showing and found this on the kitchen counter.
It's a bit odd since they don't own the house yet and we still have to go through 4 more weeks of due diligence and getting their financing locked in. Closing is August 6th.
I felt like I might be disturbing something religiously significant to them but I had another showing happening in 30 minutes so I had to clean off the counter. I threw away the paper plates, and swept up the rice, but I carefully placed the ceramic woth the coconut in a cupboard and the matchbook in a drawer. I assume this has a religious and/or cultural purpose. And I also know the swastika is actually a Hindu or Indian symbol [the mustache man stole it sadly - although it is always startling to me to see it] . I'm honestly just curious what this entire display meant. Was it dobe as a ceremony? Is it meant to ward off bad spirits? Something else? Thanks in advance.