Notices

Are you a photographer? Do you like exploring Houston? Would you like your photos to appear on Swamplot?

This Friday we’ll be announcing a new feature that will incorporate fun pix from our readers. And we’ll be handing out the first assignment then. If you have snap-happy friends who might enjoy this sort of thing, please let them know about it. And get your camera ready!

Today we welcome 2 new advertisers to Swamplot! Here they are:

• Habitation Realty

Located in the Houston Heights, Habitation Realty is a full-service real estate company specializing in “inner-loop luxury and green properties.”

• Carol Isaak Barden

Barden returns as an advertiser with more information about her latest project: The Tree House, at 1608 Indiana St.

And who are our continuing advertisers?

• New Leaf Real Estate, offering customized searches for buyers and a cash-back program
• The Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies at Rice University, — fall courses are beginning now
  
• Jay S. Ginsburg, P.C., offering a range of real-estate related legal services from its offices in Bellaire.
• Apartment locator ApartmentGiver.com. — if you find and lease an apartment through ApartmentGiver.com, the company will donate $100 to a charity of your choice, free.
• Houston. It’s Worth It. — out with the new book, HIWI: Ike, (HIWI is also sponsoring this week’s Neighborhood Guessing Game.)
• GlenbrookValley.com, featuring midcentury modern homes
• The Rice Design Alliance, continuing tonight with the fall lecture series Getting High: Towers in Architecture

We hope you’ll support these organizations and businesses, because they make Swamplot possible.

If you’d like to help support Swamplot and your own business — and reach this site’s large and growing audience of Houston real-estate fans — please contact our advertising department! (Here’s our rate sheet [PDF])

Sometime over the past weekend, Swamplot reached its second birthday. Look out: We’re now headed into our Terrible Twos.

This is as good a time as any to thank all of you: our readers, commenters, neighborhood correspondents, photographers, tipsters, top-secret tipsters, contest sponsors, and advertisers for making Swamplot a fun and happening place to check in on what’s happening around this town. We greatly appreciate all that you do.

No presents, please. But . . . do keep sending in those tips!

We’ve got a great fresh new crop of advertisers over here at Swamplot! First, though, we want to thank our continuing advertisers:

• New Leaf Real Estate, offering customized searches for buyers and a cash-back program
  
• The Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies at Rice University, where you can find many interesting courses beginning this fall

Here’s the brand-new group:

• Jay S. Ginsburg, P.C.

The firm offers a range of real-estate related legal services from its offices in Bellaire.

• Apartment locator ApartmentGiver.com.

If you find (and then lease) an apartment through ApartmentGiver.com, the company will donate $100 to a charity of your choice, for free.

• Houston. It’s Worth It.

The new book, HIWI: Ike, is now available! (HIWI is also sponsoring this week’s Neighborhood Guessing Game.)

• GlenbrookValley.com

GlenbrookValley.com, put together by Robert Searcy of Texas Real Estate & Co. Realtors, features midcentury modern homes in . . . Glenbrook Valley!

• The Rice Design Alliance

The RDA’s fall 2009 lecture series, Getting High: Towers in Architecture begins September 16th.

We hope you’ll check out all these local companies and organizations. If you appreciate their support of Swamplot, please let them know! Their support is what keeps Swamplot going.

And if you or your firm would like to get some attention from Swamplot’s growing readership of Houston real-estate fans, contact us for information about advertising here! You can find our rate sheet here (PDF).

To those of you who have already volunteered to serve as neighborhood correspondents for Swamplot: Thank you! If you haven’t heard back from us already, you will very soon.

Meanwhile, plenty of prime Houston neighborhoods are still looking for correspondents! If you’d like to use your photographing and reporting skills to help Swamplot cover real estate, design, and neighborhood issues better, here’s your chance! You’ll find a few more details about these very-part-time positions in our original request.

Would you like to help Swamplot expand its neighborhood coverage?

Swamplot is looking for a few neighborhood correspondents to photograph and report on the goings-on in various districts around town. Correspondents should have a keen eye, a good sense of humor, and a healthy respect for the facts they’ll be reporting on. These are non-paying positions, but the work won’t require a huge time commitment: We’ll only expect neighborhood correspondents to send us a minimum of 2 reports a month — though we’ll be happy to receive more.

Does this sound like something you’d like to do?

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