Palmetto Challenge Winner for May 14th, 2008

Lydia Taylor May 14th, 2008

Alas, I found my inbox depressingly empty of submissions for the Palmetto State Challenge this week. My initial dismay turned to delight when I realized I was in the driver’s seat and had a perfect excuse to surf the web for a while to find my own nominations. And it didn’t take long to find some worthy contenders.

First, for an honorable mention, I will put up Athol Kay’s Bad MLS Photos of the day #377, this one featuring a mind-numbingly bad MLS home description full of bizarre misspellings and accompanied by a sideways picture of a kitchen. That particular post tickled my funny bone to the core. However - no disrespect to Athol - but the post didn’t really test his writing skills, so he gets a grin but not the winning nod.

A post that did exhibit a blogger’s nimble keyboarding fingers and quick wit was Joseph Ferrara’s The Zindex Illusion, or How to Sell A Housing Report Without Using Actual Home Sales. While he took sharp aim at Zillow.com, the ‘real estate’ website we all love to hate, what was really classic was the string of comments following the post. When a representative of Zillow contested the accuracy of the post, Joe began a comment duel of the first order. Yes, a regular internet Flame War. Near the end, one commenter said of Joe, “Why do I feel like I’m watching a cat play with a mouse?”

Ah, good times.

And for that, Joe Ferrara, you are the winner of this week’s Palmetto State Challenge!

The Palmetto State Challenge is a weekly real estate blogging contest. If you discover a great real estate related article online, please send me a link.

7 Responses to “Palmetto Challenge Winner for May 14th, 2008”

  1. # Joseph Ferrara.sellsiuson 14 May 2008 at 9:32 am

    Thank you for the honor, Lydia.

  2. # Athol Kayon 14 May 2008 at 9:16 pm

    It’s an honor to lose to Joe :-)

  3. # Kion 26 May 2008 at 10:48 pm

    I am going to try and submit something before the palmetto challenge. I have been behind recently. I was hoping to submit an entry this time.

  4. # Robin Leeon 27 May 2008 at 6:21 pm

    I am looking through the recent articles seeing what would be possible to submit. I have seen several recently.

  5. # Chris Oglethorpeon 28 May 2008 at 10:23 am

    The Bad MLS photo was funny, sad, yet funny. I find it interesting that photos like that usually are accompanied by text that is in “ALL CAPS” The two just seem to go hand in hand.

  6. # Nickon 02 Jun 2008 at 2:08 am

    I’m new to this, what is the Palmetto Challenge? And yes the bad mls photo was funny and yet all too common.

  7. # Keahi Pelayoon 10 Jun 2008 at 4:27 pm

    Thanks for the post.
    Aloha,
    Keahi

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