Notices

It’s time again to thank the advertisers that make this site possible:

• ULI Houston, a district council of the Urban Land Institute
• Houston Chronicle Real Estate
• The Tree House at 1608 Indiana, from Carol Isaak Barden + Company
• New Leaf Real Estate

Our newest advertiser is returning after a summer break: The Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies at Rice University. The school is offering a number of fall courses that Swamplot readers will likely find interesting:

• Green Houses
• Home Revitalization: Enjoy Now, Profit Later
• Houston’s Original Six Wards: Then and Now
• The History of Texas: New Perspectives, New Insights
• Sacred Spaces of Houston

Wanna see Swamplot keep on truckin’? Please thank our advertisers! And if you’d like to lend your support to Swamplot and help it grow, why not consider promoting your business here?

If you’re interested in sponsoring a prize for Swamplot’s weekly Neighborhood Guessing Game, there are slots still available!

Swamplot is read carefully and regularly by Houstonians who take an active interest in their neighborhoods and surroundings. Thinking about advertising on Swamplot? Look through our current rate sheet (PDF). And please contact us for more information!

Remember that new feature we added recently — the Swamplot Price Adjuster — where we’ve been spotlighting homes that readers believe are priced poorly for today’s market?

Why didn’t it appear on Swamplot yesterday?

Because none of you sent in nominations! Really . . . is it all going so swimmingly out there? Has the market settled down, with nothing too high or too low?

C’mon: We’ll need a steady stream of nominations to make this work. Send us links to properties whose asking prices you think could use some adjustment. Tell us about the place, and explain why you think a fix is needed. Then pick a better price! (Unless you request otherwise, we’ll always keep submissions to the Swamplot Price Adjuster anonymous.)

We’ll feature the best nominations on Swamplot Price Adjuster. And then we’ll have some fun with it again, no?

When RECON, the newsletter of the Texas A&M Real Estate Center, asked its readers a few months ago to name the best real-estate blogs in Texas, a few of them apparently nominated Swamplot. Gee, thanks! But . . . now RECON is taking its survey a little further.

RECON now wants to know which of the 19 nominated blogs are the most “informative or useful, or . . . simply the most entertaining.” Swamplot is pitted against 3 competitors in the first round: 2 from Realtors in Austin and College Station, and Dallas Dirt, a blog about that city’s real-estate industry from D magazine.

If you’d like to vote, RECON asks you to send an email to associate editor Brian Pope and let him know “what swayed your decision.”

• Vote for Best Blog [RECON]

And now, a bit of well-deserved recognition for the sponsors who make Swamplot possible:

• ULI Houston, a district council of the Urban Land Institute
• Houston Chronicle Real Estate
• The Tree House at 1608 Indiana, from Carol Isaak Barden + Company

Swamplot also appreciates the return of a former advertiser:

• New Leaf Real Estate

Welcome back!

If you enjoy Swamplot, please let our advertisers know that you appreciate their support of this site.

And if you or your company are looking for a great way to reach tens of thousands of Houston readers interested in this city’s real estate, neighborhoods, and design, contact us. Advertising on Swamplot — or sponsoring one of our Neighborhood Guessing Games — is an extremely cost-effective way to get your message out to an intelligent, engaged, and influential group of readers.

And now, a moment of appreciation for Swamplot’s direct advertisers:

• ULI Houston, a district council of the Urban Land Institute
• Colliers International commercial real estate
• Houston Chronicle Real Estate
• Nos Caves Vin premium off-site wine storage in the Rice Village, promoting an Oregon Wine Country trip in July

Next, another appreciative moment for this site’s newest advertiser:

• The Tree House at 1608 Indiana, from Carol Isaak Barden + Company

If you appreciate the support these advertisers give Swamplot, we hope you’ll let them know!

Thanks also to Houston’s own Hamilton Shirts, sponsors of the prize for this week’s Neighborhood Guessing Game: a gift certificate for a Made-to-Measure dress shirt!

Putting an ad on Swamplot is a great way for companies and organizations to reach readers who are actively interested in Houston real estate and design. It’s easy to do, and our rates (PDF) are cost-effective.

Have you been thinking about advertising on Swamplot? You know you want to!

Thank you, Swamplot advertisers! You make this site possible!

Here’s a list of Swamplot’s latest sponsors:

• ULI Houston, a district council of the Urban Land Institute
• Colliers International
• Houston Chronicle Real Estate

We’re also very happy to welcome back a returning advertiser:

• Nos Caves Vin premium off-site wine storage

Nos Caves Vin is promoting an Oregon Wine Country trip in July.

This prize for the Neighborhood Guessing Game this week is being sponsored by the Hotel Sorella, which will be opening in July at the new CityCentre mixed-use development at Beltway 8 and I-10. If you’d like to win an overnight stay there, including cocktails for two at monnalisa (the hotel’s bar), there’s still time to make a guess! We’ll announce the winner a little later today.

Advertising on Swamplot is a smart move for any company or organization wanting to reach a large but concentrated audience that likes to concentrate on Houston real estate. If you’d like to learn more about advertising or sponsoring a prize (slots are still available!), contact Swamplot’s advertising subdivision. You’ll find a link to our rate sheet (a PDF) on that same page.

Swamplot is looking for a photo editor or two to turn Swamplot’s now-only-occasional “Seen on the Street” posts into a regular weekly feature.

Interested? Or know someone who should be? Send us an email and put “Swamplot Photo Editor” in the subject line.

Are you one of those people who spends a lot of time looking at Houston real-estate listings online?

Swamplot is looking for a few people like you who’d be willing to spend a small amount of time online each day helping us test an intriguing new service we’re working on. If you’d like to help out, please send us an email, and put “I like listings” in the subject line.

The prize for this week’s Neighborhood Guessing Game is being sponsored by Houston. It’s Worth It. The winner of the current round will receive a gift box containing $100 worth of merchandise from the HIWI store, including a copy of the classic Houston. It’s Worth It. book, a HIWI T-shirt, a HIWI mug, a baseball cap, and private-label bug repellent. If you’d like to win the prize, there’s still time to submit your entry!

The Rice Design Alliance will continue to sponsor Neighborhood Guessing Game prizes for a couple of weeks each month. And a number of other sponsors have stepped up to the plate as well.

But if you’ve got a product or business you’d like Swamplot readers to pay some attention to, sponsorship slots are still available! Let us know if you’re interested.

• Houston. It’s Worth It.
• Rice Design Alliance
• Neighborhood Guessing Game: Lavender Twins [Swamplot]
• How to Advertise on Swamplot [Swamplot]

As many readers — and at least one would-be spammer — have already noticed, Swamplot now has a job board.

Why? Well, as we mentioned yesterday, Swamplot is now looking for an advertising sales rep to sell some online real estate — on this site. And it turns out Boxer Property Management is looking for a leasing agent. Hey, that’s 2 listings already! So why not open it up? Houston real-estate and design fans swarm Swamplot every day, and this site’s readership continues to grow. Maybe other Swamplot readers have positions open they’d like to advertise?

For now, you can post a job ad on the Swamplot Job Board for free. It’s quite easy, really — and it’s even cheaper than Craigslist. What kinds of jobs belong here? Hey, try us. Even contract work for small projects is okay — just mark those listings as “Freelance” work. As new listings arrive, we’ll add new categories to match.

The latest Swamplot Job Board postings will show up on the home page, in the far-right column. We hope you’ll check them out, and help make the board more useful by spreading the word about it to friends and colleagues.

• The Swamplot Job Board [Swamplot]

Interested in joining the team behind Houston’s fastest-growing real-estate publication?

Swamplot is looking for some help with online advertising sales. More details about the position are available here.

You still have a chance to win that $100 gift certificate to Robert Gadsby’s new Bedford Restaurant that Swamplot is giving away this week. All you need to do is win the latest Neighborhood Guessing Game.

But if you want to get your guess in, you’d better hurry! The contest ends tomorrow . . . sometime!

We want to thank Bedford — and the Rice Design Alliance, which will continue to sponsor other rounds of the game — for their prize donations. Prizes have helped attract new players to the game and to this site, and brought a good number of you lurkers out of the woodwork. The prizes turn out to be a good deal for our sponsors, too, because sponsoring earns them a lot of attention from Swamplot readers.

If you or your firm would like to sponsor a round or two of the Neighborhood Guessing Game, just contact Swamplot using the address on our advertising page.

• Bedford Restaurant
• Rice Design Alliance
• Neighborhood Guessing Game: Shower Box [Swamplot]
• How to Advertise on Swamplot [Swamplot]

A big thank you to these direct advertisers, who are doing us all a service by occupying some important real estate on the pages of Swamplot:

• Robert Lowery, Colliers International
• Houston Chronicle Real Estate
• ULI Houston, a district council of the Urban Land Institute.

And a warm welcome to Swamplot’s newest advertiser:

• The Rice Design Alliance, announcing its annual architecture tour and civic forum.

This year’s RDA tour, on March 28th and 29th, will feature small houses.

If you’d like to join this select group and get your message out to Swamplot’s large, loyal and unique audience of smart, rabid Houston real-estate fans, get in touch with us. You’ll find a rate sheet and contact info on our advertising page.

Also, Swamplot is pleased to announce that the RDA has also agreed to sponsor 2 prizes each month for the Neighborhood Guessing Game. Winners of RDA-sponsored rounds will receive a one-year individual membership in the Rice Design Alliance, which you’ll be able to give to a friend if you’re already a member. Individual RDA memberships are ordinarily $45 a year.

If you’d like to promote your business by sponsoring a prize, slots are still available! Next week we’ll be giving away a prize for the NGG that’s being donated by a brand new sponsor — and we’re betting it’ll be highly sought after. Stay tuned!