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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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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.