Tooting My Own Horn

January 1st, 2008 Best of 2007, Deeper Thoughts No Comments »

Getting some positive mentions in end of year postings, so figure I’ll at least return the link love favors.

REMBEX Blog awards me the 2007 Humdinger Award for Funniest Blog Post on the RE.net for my infamous DTPMMALF post. In all honesty, I have no idea why I wrote it, I wasn’t even trying to be particularly funny, and in fact had to double back and add a humor tag to it after the first few commentors said it was funny. I’ll take the award though.

Jeff Brown at Bawldguy Talking, shamelessly stole the Feed Bag idea and turned it into the Bawldys. I don’t win anything at the Bawldys, but get a very nice mention…

“I read very good to excellent writing on real estate blogs daily. Kris Berg is not only insightful, but often hilarious as she sneaks in her daily bit of education. Athol Kay who I swear comes from a galaxy far, far away, is an incredible photographer. His daily take on bad MLS photos of the day is a favorite all over the country. BloodhoundBlog, sporting about a million contributors these days, informs, critiques, and generally dominates the real estate room these days, should be required reading. (I don’t say that just cuz I’m a Bloodhound contributor.) Then there’s Agent Genius which also offers many contributors. Their take is different from many of the group blogs, in that they couldn’t care less what readers think. Their readers count on that. I could go on and on, but you get the point. There are some pretty smart folks writing about real estate on a daily basis.”

The stellar Tony Gallegos (WHEN IS THE BOOK COMING OUT TONY?) shakes out a list of his top 20 bloggers, and somehow I make the cut…

Athol Kay injects his site with humor like no one else in the mortgage or real estate industry. One of my mentors (Dennis Geist) taught me years ago that one can have fun and laugh while still being a top notch professional…Athol proves that point in spades!

Athol is a Kiwi that ads a punch to both the Connecticut real estate market and the readers who visit RE Agent In CT in droves for their daily viewing of Bad MLS Photo of the Day.

Athol is also know in his market as the Leonardo Da Vinci of taking MLS photos.

Some very nice things said there, I appreciate it very much.