If you have a property video you’d like to share with our readers, please send it to theFrontSteps@gmail.com. We’d be happy to share in the, um, spotlight….
Tags: Real Estate Oscars, Realtor Oscars
If you have a property video you’d like to share with our readers, please send it to theFrontSteps@gmail.com. We’d be happy to share in the, um, spotlight….
-1378 Rhode Island (Property Video/website)
Tags: humor, Oscars, real estate, Real Estate Oscars, Realtor, Realtor Oscars, videos
If it contains anything you might find in this store, or any variation of something you might find in this store, the answer is yes. No discussion. It’s mandatory, and we will hold $10,000 of your proceeds in escrow to be used for your own personal interior design consultation, and the cost it will take to nuke your furniture.
-Source: Apartment Therapy
Whether it’s an “extremely motivated client”, or an extremely motivated agent, it’s the new age of real estate marketing…begging…and in San Francisco it’s here to stay.
It’s about time we quit being subtle and get to the point.
-367 31st Ave, 3 bedroom, $1,195,000 [property website]
-13 Ways To Say The Same Thing: Bring Me An Offer [theFrontSteps.com]
The email to our office read, “Stunning Ocean Beach Villa”, and a link to 2006 47th Ave was included. We were expecting…well….a surprise, you know…a “villa”. Instead, we got your typical Outer Parkside “gem”.
We’re gonna go out on a limb and say that when 99% of Outer Parkside home buyers (and their Realtors) are shopping for homes at or near Ocean Beach, they’re not looking for “villas”. Maybe “Junior 5s” or “Center Patios”, but “villas”? Seems like a little bit of…shall we say…interesting marketing.
But a Pizza Place On Noriega? Now that’s marketing…it’s a pizza place…on Noriega. Genius!
(Yes, the Pizza Place is nearby this listing.)
-2006 47th Ave, Outer Parkside, $849,000.
Tags: Outer Parkside
It has been a long hard battle for our winners this year. We had more nominees than in any previous contest, and our web traffic went through the roof (over 40,000 new visitors for this contest alone!) Contestants were pumping their Facebook and Twitter accounts spreading the word, and sites all around the world linked to the contest. To say it was well-read, would be an understatement. But who cares about that crap!? You want to know who won, right?
Looks like San Francisco edged out the greater Bay Area contestants, but not by much. It was a very close contest.
Here are your winners and Sexiest Realtors in the San Francisco Bay Area for 2009: Luba Muzichenko of Zephyr Real Estate; and Daniel Der Vartanian of Prudential CA Realty. Congratulations!
[In case you missed all of the nominees, click here to check them out.]
We had a blast with the contest, and we thank our nominees and winners for being such good sports. You can send in nominations for next year’s contest to theFrontSteps@gmail.com, or put it in the comments below.
With this, we bid you a safe and happy holiday season and Happy New Year! We do have one more post for the year, so look for that tomorrow It’s up. Otherwise, we’re taking a brief hiatus from theFrontSteps to focus on PocketListings.net, so make sure to check it out and follow @pocketlistings on Twitter for updates. Scheduled launch in January 2010.
Adios!
Tags: San Francisco Real Estate, Sexiest Realtor Bay Area, sf real estate
[Friday a.m. update: We know the suspense is killing you, but you'll have to a wait a little bit for the announcement of our finalists. We have properties to show, and contingencies to lift (and a bit of a hangover). You'll know soon enough....and now you know (click to see the finalists)....and let the voting begin, Click to Vote For the Winner! (Polls open 6am Monday 12/14.)]
[Sorry! Polls are now closed! Please submit nominees for next year to theFrontSteps@gmail.com, but come back here tomorrow for the finalists!]
The day is finally upon us….voting for the 2009 Sexiest Realtor in the San Francisco Bay Area has begun, and we’ll have a winner soon. Before we begin, we’d like to point out a few things:
1. Due to the number of nominees this year and our reach beyond San Francisco into the greater Bay Area, we decided to throw all of the beautiful nominees up at once. However, there are three groups battling it out amongst themselves (Group A, B, C) both in the Women’s and Men’s competition. The winners from each group will advance for a final round of voting next week. Winners from this round will be announced this Friday.
2. Women are first, men are below, so don’t forget to check them boys out too.
3. In order to attempt to limit the number of duplicate votes, we have disabled the re-vote feature, so if you really want one person to win, spread the word to your friends instead of clicking over and over on that one name . If it appears there is a problem, let us know (theFrontSteps@gmail.com).
4. After this contest, we are going to go on holiday from blogging on theFrontSteps to help build the best place for all of those pocket listings (PocketListings.NET) so many of you agents are holding on to and hoping to sell. Try not to miss us while we’re away, and definitely follow Pocket Listings on Twitter to keep updated on progress. We’ll be back here soon enough.
5. As always, comments are (currently) open and any inappropriate content/comments will be deleted immediately at our sole discretion.
6. Updates on the contest will be provided below for what we’re seeing behind the scenes.
So….without further adieu, let the fun begin! Have a good look at the beauties below, VOTE, and tell your friends/colleagues! Good luck to all of you nominees…time to start blasting your Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn accounts!
Sexiest Realtor San Francisco Bay Area 2009 Female Nominees:
[Sorry! Polls are now closed! Please submit nominees for next year to theFrontSteps@gmail.com, but come back here tomorrow for the finalists!]
What competition would be complete without the men?!
Sexiest Realtor San Francisco Bay Area 2009 Male Nominees:
[Sorry! Polls are now closed! Please submit nominees for next year to theFrontSteps@gmail.com, but come back here tomorrow for the finalists!]
Make sure to come back and see the results this Friday. We currently allow you to see the results in real time by clicking “view results” in the poll, but we usually take that privilege away at some point. 
Thanks for visiting theFrontSteps. Don’t forget to visit and bookmark PocketListings.NET, and FOLLOW POCKET LISTINGS ON TWITTER. If you’d simply like to follow theFrontSteps you’re welcome to do that too.
The contestant’s websites: Amy Harrington; Barbara Ellis; Shannon Arterburn; Ginger Wilcox; Luba Muzichenko; Jenn Davis; Danielle Lazier; Marie Carr; Thena Luu DiNapoli; Miyuki “Mia” Takami; Diana Kaus Koll; Amy Levins; Marika Fishman; Dace Dislere; Kimberly Airey; Alix Fagersten; Olivia Hsu Decker; Alicia Sanguinetti; Andrea Hesselein; Kiesha Stephens; Athena Lagace; Farrah Wilder; Jana Page; Lisa Weber; Cameron Bamberger; Robyn Bentley; Chaele Cooper; Payton Stiewe; Kevin Boer; Milko Encinas; Kevin McLeod; Eddie O’Sullivan; Daniel DerVartanian; Mark Choey; Frank Nolan; Scott Symon; Sean Proctor; Rob la Eace; Butch Haze; Rick Teed; Shelley Trew; Maximillian Armour; Joel Goodrich; Ron Whitney; Brendon & Kevin Kearney.
Happy Voting!
Tags: San Francisco Real Estate, sexiest realtor, Sexiest Realtor Bay Area, Sexiest Realtor San Francisco
Bringing back an old favorite with our “Comment Du Jour”, because sometimes we simply can’t say it as well as our readers. This comment from Caroline SF on our recent post, It’s Less Expensive And More Environmentally Friendly To Live In The City, We Have Proof, is so good that we absolutely have to let you all in on her thoughts:
I have a college freshman and a high school sophomore who have gone all the way through SFUSD schools.
Only the uninformed (well, and perhaps those who don’t want their kids sitting next to “those” people in class) believe that San Francisco parents “need” to send their kids to private schools.
Of course we do have many friends who do and have sent their kids private, and there is simply no discernable difference in the quality of their education vs. the quality of my kids’ education. Basically they spent $150,000-$200,000 per kid for the same thing we got for free — a solid K-12 education. They chose to do that for whatever reasons of their own, but they didn’t “need” to do it.
Touche!
-It’s Less Expensive And More Environmentally Friendly To Live In The City, We Have Proof [theFrontSteps]
If you haven’t noticed, our Sexiest Bay Area Realtor 2009 Contest is now accepting your nominees and they’re streaming in! Keep them coming (theFrontSteps@gmail.com).
It’s funny, usually we get very simple emails with just the name and picture of the nominees, but every so often we get a few that are just too good to pass up. Since we’re nice, we won’t spill the beans on who these comments refer to, but we think you’ll like them.
First of all huge fan of the site. I would like to nominate [you're gonna have to wait] for the sexiest Realtor of San Francisco and the bay area. All of us girls here at the office have kindergarten crushes on him & we all think he’s so dreamy
lol
But he is really one of the coolest most down to earth guys and we would love to see him win!
And one more:
Hey Front Steps,
Oh I got your sexy realtor. Her name is [it's killing you, isn't it] and she’s a [removed] agent in SF. You didn’t ask people to say why they think their nominee is sexy, but I’m gonna tell ya anyways:
1 Look at her. She’s smoking hot.
2 She’s smart — and brains propel beauty into crazy-sexy-hot territory.
3 She’s got a [does size really matter?] tattoo which is so way cool. I am attaching the full [sized photo] since I think it just oozes SF to be a professional but also have a little edge too.
We like edgy, and we like all of you dear readers for sending in your nominations. Keep them coming and let’s keep having some fun!
Oh, and if you care to elaborate as to why you think they’re sexy, we like that even more.
Tags: Sexiest Realtor Bay Area, Sexiest Realtor San Francisco, sexy realtor
It’s that time of year again. The real estate market slows, agents are out getting in shape and looking sexier with every deal they frantically chase down, and we here at theFrontSteps like to throw a little contest in their honor. That’s right, it’s time for our third annual Sexiest Realtor In San Francisco Contest. However, this year we thought we’d switch it up and go Bay Area baby!
Yup, we’re opening up the contest to include all Nine Bay Area Counties (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma.) So as not to take away from the traditional San Francisco contest or any of the past winners (or nominees), it will work like this (with any luck):
-Submit Nominations for all 9 Bay Area Counties’ Sexiest Realtors from now until each respective bracket’s voting begins. Submit via email to theFrontSteps@gmail.com (anonymity guaranteed), or in the comments below (anonymity is in your hands there). Include a picture of the Realtor, or a link to one, where they work, and what county they’re in.
-November 23-27, Vote for Sexiest Realtors in Alameda, Contra Costa, and Marin Counties
-November 30-December 4th, Vote for Sexiest Realtors in Napa, Sonoma, and Solano Counties
-December 7-11, Vote for Sexiest Realtors in San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara Counties
-December 14-18, We take the winner of each county and put them on the poll for SEXIEST REALTOR IN THE BAY AREA!
-December 21, We’ll announce the winner of the first ever SEXIEST REALTOR IN THE BAY AREA contest!
After that, we’re taking a holiday, toasting the sexiness of our colleagues (maybe even sharing some champagne by cozy fire with the winner…Hey! Dreaming is allowed!) and hopefully getting some skiing/boarding in on the Bay Area’s backyard slopes.
So without further adieu, please share this post with everyone you know, send in your nominations, come back every day to vote, and join in the fun!
+Remember to include a picture of your nomination, or link to one, where they work, and what county they’re in.+
In case you’re wondering how this all started, three years ago a reader asked, “Who’s the Sexiest Realtor In San Francisco?”. We kid you not, that question started it all, and this is BY FAR our most popular feature every year on this site.
p.s. As is always the case, your Editor is not eligible to participate in this contest, so don’t ask.
Tags: sex sells, sexiest realtor, Sexiest Realtor Bay Area, Sexiest Realtor San Francisco, sexy realtor
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