CORE #147 - Carnival of Real Estate Hosted at Mike's Corner

I'll be hosting the CORE (Carnival of Real Estate) next week. This will be the 3rd time the Carnival has stopped at Mike's Corner here in H-Town. The uninitiated should take the time to check it out. Why is it called a carnival?. Rembember when you were a kid? The carnival would show up in your town. In my case we would cut grass, hunt down pop bottle refunds and suffer the indignity of baby sitting my little sisters only to find out the carnival was bout to pack up go to another town that was way to far to ride our bikes. In the case of CORE, the town happens to the location of a selected host blogger and the stay is for a week starting every Monday. The carnival host accepts submissions of the best post(s) of the past couple of weeks from other real estate bloggers from across the web. The host then selects the best of those posts to showcase and provide awards. In my opinion, if the Carnival Host is doing things correctly, there will always be a clear winner.

Over the last couple of years the hosts have been very creative with themes for hosting the CORE, usually based on a holiday taking place at that time or just a generally entertaining way to introduce what the host believes to be the best in real estate blogging content.

When if first stumbled upon the real estate version of CORE if found it to be just the tool I had been searching for to help me in my quest to keep up with great content. As the real estate blogging community has grown, so have the number of top notch blog destinations. It can be a daunting task to search out and read only the best. CORE helps that effort in a big way.

MLBroadcast hosts a great audio podcast for the Carnival of Real Estate. From time-to-time the folks at Zillow will interview the CORE host for insight on their picks, criteria for selection, themes and more. Get a free subscription here (iTunes). You will enjoy the conversations.

Submit your best post(s) between now and this upcoming Saturday. If you ned to get your submission in a little late and the form is not working you can e-mail it to me. Be sure to include all of the required information. I will start making selections Sunday afternon. If you're interested in becoming involved with CORE, check out these links:

• Host a Carnival
• Promote the CoRE
• Write for CoRE

Carnival of Real Estate

The CORE is hosted at GeekEstateBlog this week. Drew did a great job of selecting this week's posts but his photoshop skills are different story:)

The CORE podcast was also updated with the latest interview taking place with #55's host, Allan Shannon of TheLandJournal.Com. Click here to subscribe in iTunes.

CORE Podcast Updated

The Carnival of Real Estate host podcast has been updated with an interview conducted by Drew Meyers of Zillow with Justin Smith of Christian Real Estate Network Blog.

Carnival of Real Estate

This week's carnival is up at RSS Pieces. Don't forget to check out the Carnival Podcast too! Click here to listen on the web. Click here to subscribe in iTunes. The podcast features interviews with past Carnival hosts. Check it out!

Carnival 36 - Drinks & Dining in NY

Sorry for the lack of posts recently, it's been very busy. This week's carnival of Real Estate finds it's way to NY @ NYHousesForSale. Trulia's interview with the Queen of NY real estate, Barbara Corcoran takes the top spot. More posts are coming in the next couple of days. Stay tuned, and don't forget to check out the CoRE podcast, it should be updated soon as well.