Redfin’s financial underbelly, the top-bazillion-bloggers and leftovers from last week’s ActiveRain thunderstorm. These are just some of the topics addressed in this week’s Odysseus Medal competition.
Vote for the People’s Choice Award here. You can use the voting interface to see each nominated post, so comparison is easy.
Voting runs through to 12 Noon PDT/MST Monday. I’ll announce the winners of this week’s awards soon thereafter.
Here is this week’s short-list of Odysseus Medal nominees:
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"Pat Kitano -- Active Rain What Active Rain should do now”,
“Kris Berg — Soledad Mountain “They made such a beautiful home.”“,
“Dan Green — Jobs Report Measuring The Statistical Insignificance Of The Monthly Jobs Report (October 2007 Edition)“,
“Jim Watkins — Lenders When Lenders Mess Up, Everyone Suffers!“,
“Dan Melson — Foreclosure Scam The \”We’ll Keep You In Your Property\” Scam“,
“Jay Thompson — WordPress 2.3 Upgrading to WordPress 2.3“,
“Jonathn Dalton — Weblog Comments Why Do We Allow Comments?“,
“Sandy Kaduce — Redfin Financials Dr. Kelman–Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Redfin“,
“Michael Seguin — Central v. Distributed Central vs Distributed – a familiar cycle“,
“Kevin Boer — Redfin Financials How Come Redfin’s P&L Looks Distinctly Unlike That Of A Traditional Real Estate Brokerage? Because Redfin Is Actually A Brokerage, Not A Landlord!“,
“Brian Boero — Online Marketing Online real estate marketing made simple“,
“Alex Mather — NAR REALTOR This, REALTOR That, An Open Letter to the NAR“,
“Jillayne Schlicke — FHA Reform FHA: A Siren Who Just Might Break Your Heart“,
“Michale Wurzer — Phoenix MLS Big News“,
“Glenn Kelman — Redfin Financials Financial Models for Underachievers: Two Years of the Real Numbers of a Startup“,
“Lani Anlgin — Aaron Anglin “Thank You” is not enough“,
“Kris Berg — The Inman 25 The Honor is All Mine!“,
“Greg Perry — Buyer Turnoffs The TOP 10 Most Offensive Buyer Turn-Offs“,
“Greg Tracey — Real Estate Market Things I Like About the Current Market“,
“Kris Berg — Birthday Brass in Pocket”
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Deadline for next week’s competition is Sunday at 12 Noon PDT/MST. You can nominate your own weblog entry or any post you admire here.
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Sean Broderick is a real estate developer and a practicing commercial real estate broker, holding the coveted CCIM designation. His career has taken him from Florida to California, with a stint in minor league baseball.
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