I’ve been remiss lately not only in participating in the various Re.net writing competitions, but also in giving credit to other participants. Consider this an attempt to catch up…
First, the round-up of the Bloodhound’s competition.
Jim Duncan takes the prestigious Odysseus medal with his entry entitled “Wither False Blame?” which takes issue with a recent article from the Wharton School of Business which excoriates real estate agents for their role in the subprime debacle. Jim says that Wharton’s article, while making a number of good points, includes a disturbing number of factual inaccuracies — such as that because buyer’s agents are paid by the seller, they actually work for the seller — that cast doubt on the entire article. Here in California, as is also apparently the case in Jim’s state of Virginia, the “agency” documents filled out during transctions make it abundantly clear what the respective duties are of the buyer’s and seller’s representatives and to whom each of those representatives owes a fiduciary duty.
[As a side note, Jim ponders the revelation that business school professors, like many of their academic brethren, tilt leftwards politically. During my days at an East Coast business school north of New York and south of Boston, the student population was overwhelmingly liberal. A professor took a straw poll a few days before the 2000 Bush vs. Gore election (you remember that one!) and the results were roughly 85% Gore, 10% Nader, and 5% Bush. When W himself spoke at the 2001 Commencement, he joked that one of the requirements for being invited to speak was not only that you had to be a sitting president, but that you had to have lost the New Haven vote to Ralph Nader.]
Then we switch over to this weeks Carnival of Real Estate, hosted by ReRevealed. Lani Anglin’s fascination with Nacho Libre shines through in the awards she gave out.
First prize goes to Daniel Rothamel with an article entitled, “How Your Business Can Benefit From Social Media Now.”
Yours truly is honored — I think — with the Chancho award for my article discussing the pressing topic “Three Reasons Why Dogs Pee On Fire Hydrants And Realtors Advertise In Newspapers.”
The other top 10′ers were as follows:
Kris Berg of Bloodhound Blog writes Face Time or Facebook?
Toby Boyce of Sadie’s Take on Delaware Ohio writes Q&A: Is Today A Great Time to Buy?
Jeff Brown of Bloodhound Blog writes House Agents- Wanna Start the New Year Kickin’ Ass? Here’s How
Cliff Jacobson of WebHomeUSA writes The Future of the Ad Model For Online Real Estate
Denny Oh of SanDiegOh writes Home… What’s in a Name?
Aaron Dickinson of Minneapolis Real Estate writes Real Estate Clients- Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
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