What a battle it was, but as the saying goes, all good things must come to an end, and so is the case for our little ego boosting glam event that is the one and only San Francisco’s Sexiest Realtor Contest. We have to say the turnout this year blew away that of last year, and we thank all of those that participated.
With over 76,000 votes tallied, we’ve found two winners.
For the women, we’re proud to announce San Francisco’s Sexiest Female Realtor 2008….Miyuki “Mia” Takami of Paragon Real Estate.
It was an insanely close contest between Mia and Thena Luu DiNapoli, but somehow Mia was able to pull 600+ votes around in the final hours of polling. Truth be told, we were already resizing Thena’s photo for the win. Maybe this little plug had something to do with it, or maybe Mia’s fans were just a bit more fanatical than Thena’s. We’ll never know. What we do know is that Lee Bender surprised us all. Nice work Lee!
For the men, we’re proud to announce San Francisco’s Sexiest Male Realtor 2008…Milko Encinas of Herth Real Estate.
It was very surprising (although the same thing happened last year, so maybe we should learn to expect it) to see the men garnered WAY more votes than the women, and Milko handily defeated Rob La Eace by around 18,000 votes. It was close for a while, but then Milko just ran away with it.
It was fun to see the lead change multiple times in both the male and female contests.
Not only do our winners receive the coveted title of San Francisco’s Sexiest Realtor, but this year we’re throwing in a T-Shirt of their choice. Winners make sure to shoot us an email with your size and we’ll make sure to get you one. Also make sure to let us know if you want Real Estate Sucks (means “doesn’t suck” for those that don’t get blog humor) or Real Estate Sucks.
To all the other contestants, thank you soooo much for being good sports and having fun with this. Thanks to all those that voted, and thanks to all the sites that linked to us. We appreciate it.
We’ll see you same time, same place next year, so mark your calendars.
Happy Holidays to all, and to all a good night. See you in a week (or so, depending on the pow-pow gnar gnar dumping down in them thar hills).
[Update: It is is 5:48pm PST, and we've received a few emails regarding the polling. Yes, the provider (PollDaddy) was down for maintenance today, and yes the voting appears to not be working (performs differently than what you might be used to), but votes are tallying. Thena Luu DiNapoli has a commanding lead at the moment, and to reiterate, votes ARE tallying.]
It has arrived! The moment we have been waiting an entire year to experience again…voting for San Francisco’s Sexiest Realtor 2008. Thank you to those that submitted your nominations, and thank you, in advance, to our participants for having a little fun with us. Voting will be open all week (until Saturday 12/20 at 11:59pm), and the winner will be announced Monday 12/22, so contestants have plenty of time to gather crucial votes.
One big change this year is we’re using Poll Daddy for voting. You can check back to see how the competition is unfolding by clicking on the “view results” link within the poll, and your voting privacy is totally, 100% guaranteed. However, we’re going to disable the “view results” feature on Thursday (you know, build a little suspense).
So…without further adieu, we present the nominees for theFrontSteps’ Sexiest Realtor Contest 2008.
[See daily updates at the bottom of this post.]
Women first (of course):
Please vote for your favorite (sexiest) female Realtor using this poll: POLLS CLOSED
…and of course, the men:
Please vote for your favorite (sexiest) male Realtor using this poll: POLLS CLOSED
Are we going to see another battle of brokerages like we saw last year, or simply a battle of individuals? Time will tell. Thanks for participating, and thanks for hanging out on theFrontSteps.
Our apologies to Tiffany Combs. Your nominators failed to send a link to a picture and we couldn’t find you anywhere! (Time for a lesson in SEO.) Apologies also to the contestants that didn’t get nominated in time. We’ll see you same time, same place next year.
[Update 1: Voting is reaching a furious pace, with over 3000 votes tallied so far (men and women), Miyuki Takami holds a commanding lead, although she lost it in a late day strike yesterday from Lee Bender. Thena Luu DiNapoli a close third and Jennifer Martin right behind. For the men, Brendon Kearney is hitting it out of the park, followed by Ron Whitney in second, and defending champ Mark Choey in third. Brother Kevin Kearney not fairing so well in last place...you gonna take that sh*t! Voting multiple times for the same person is not necessary and one would argue an enormous waste of your time. Check back for more updates. ]
[Update 2: The number of votes continues to surprise (even though we know some of you are voting over and over again). So far the women have received 4116 Votes, the men 2946. Miyuki Takami still out front for the women with 1350, Lee Bender close behind in second with 942, Thena Luu DiNapoli closing in with 792, and Stasi Martin bringing up the rear in last place with 7 votes. For the men Brendon Kearney in front of his brother (guess he isn't going to take that sh*t after all) with 883 votes, Kevin Kearney with 439, Ron Whitney in third with 419, and defending Champ Mark Choey slipping into 5th! Bringing up the rear for the men is Kevin McLeod with 11 votes. Voting open all week, so lots of time for things to change.]
[Update 3: Wow! What a turn of events yesterday. The women continue to outpace the men in regards to number of votes cast (5921), but the men are gaining (5522), and Brendon Kearney got clobbered off the top spot first by Milko Encinas (who we're informed works for Herth Real Estate), and now Rob La Eace is crushing all of them. (He must have a good campaign manager.) Defending champ Mark Choey slipping, slipping, slipping off the charts, where last year he dominated. As we said to Kevin Kearney, "you going to take that sh*t?!"
For the women, Lee Bender has unfortunately slipped from strong second place position, down to third despite her email comment leaked to us saying, "Dontcha think it would be cool if an old bag like me actually won?" Thena Luu DiNapoli is clawing her way to the top (currently in second), and Miyuki Takami hanging on for dear life in first place.
We were going to disable the "view results" feature today, but have decided not to. Instead, we have allowed you to see the number of votes cast, not just percentages. And in response to many inquiries regarding the ability to vote multiple times, see our Editor's Note in this comment. Basically, in order to allow more than one person to vote from the same computer (think offices where multiple people share the same computer with the same IP) we had to enable this function. Maybe next year we'll kill it, but the playing field is even regardless, and some people just have more fanatic fans than others. Nothing we can do about that. That's all for today, polls close Saturday night at 11:59pm. Good luck to all!]
[Update 4: This will be the last update before going quiet on y'all and watching the votes ourselves. Yup, very soon we're disabling the "view results" and will keep a close eye on them without letting you in on the action. At this moment, both races (men and women) are coming down to just two. Mia Takami in first by only 20 votes...actually, we take that back, it's back up to a 400 vote lead, wow! For the men, Rob La Eace in a commanding lead over Milko Encinas, but if Mia can get 400 votes within the hour, anything is possible for Milko, and even Brendon who is only slightly behind Milko in third. There have been more than 24,000 votes cast, which is truly remarkable and we can only pray there aren't a handful of people just voting over and over again. Our website traffic would indicate the contrary. Thanks for all of the participation, we'll announce the winner on Monday. Voting stops 11:59pm tomorrow (Saturday 12/20). Good luck! Don't forget to get a T-shirt on your way out.]
[FINAL UPDATE: Milko Encinas wins for the guys, Mia Takami for the girls. Thanks for participating and having a little fun!]
[Editor's note: As always, comments are currently open, but in order to preserve the integrity of this site and our contestants, we're keeping a close eye on comments. That means, please keep comments civil (as in you wouldn't talk like that in front of your mother, grandmother, or children, and you'd be embarrassed as hell if we made your identity public next to what you said, because it is very possible to do so. Thank you for your cooperation.]
The Holidays are upon us, we’re in a recession, and the market is staggering, so why not blow off some real estate steam (focus people) and submit your nomination for San Francisco’s Sexiest Realtor 2008. We did the same thing last year, and we crowned a king and queen in a dizzying few days of voting, and thousands of votes counted. Will Claire Chessen and Mark Choey defend their titles? It’s up to you, dear readers, to decide.
To submit your nomination, we need three things:
1) Name
2) Picture or link to picture/website with photo
3) Their Brokerage
If you’re absolutely paranoid about privacy, please use the poll below, choose “other”, write your nomination in the gray bar directly below the “other” button, and we’ll try to find them. You can also submit your nomination in the comments below.
We’re taking nominations until Friday, December 12th. Nominees will be posted and voting begins on Monday, December 15th. Poll will close Saturday, December 20th, and the WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED MONDAY, DECEMBER 22ND! (This all assuming a perfect scenario and all goes as planned.)
Best of luck to our defending champs, and a thank you in advance for all of the readers we expect to participate…now get to it…
San Francisco’s Sexiest Realtor contest is coming soon. Start thinking about who you’d like to nominate (if you haven’t already) and get ready to tell a friend.
If you do already know who you’re nominating, feel free to send it in early (thefrontsteps@gmail.com), otherwise we’re hoping to get the party started next week.
Open to men and women of all Brokerages. You can nominate yourself, you can nominate a friend, you can nominate anybody that sells real estate in San Francisco.
It’s sure to be fun (if last year’s response was any indication), so stay tuned.
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