Here is this week’s short-list of Odysseus Medal nominees:

* Jim Watkins — Down market?, Down Sales Market? Think Outside the Box
* Patrick Kapowich — Realtor licensing, Inside the Santa Clara County Association of Realtors’ Convention. Buyer beware? No. It’s Licensees Beware.
* Joel Burslem — ActiveRain/Move, Move.com Tried to Buy ActiveRain
* Jay Thompson — Aaron Anglin, Tragedy Begets Triumph: Why I Love this Community
* Jillayne Schlicke — Deceptive advertising, Deceptive Radio Advertising in Mortgage Lending
* Jonathan Dalton — Real estate 2.0, Real Estate 2.0 and the Phoenix Real Estate Consumer
* Daniel Rothamel — Facebook, Why Your Answer to, “Are You on Facebook?” Will Determine the Fate of Your Business in 10 Years or Sooner
* Brian Wilson — Redfin, [Redfin] “I coulda been a contender…”
* Morgan Brown — Stalling on foreclosures, Are Lenders Deliberately Stalling on Foreclosures?
* Jay Thompson — Refrigerator service, How to Save $94 on Refrigerator Service
* Dan Green — Data is granular, Why Real Estate Data Is Granular And Not Mosaic, Or One More Reason To Stop Reading Real Estate Headlines
* Kelly Roark — Agent 2.0, Agent 2.0: not-so-clever play on ‘Web 2.0’ or the future of real estate marketing?
* Dan Melson — Sellers pays commissions, Why the Real Estate Buyers Agent’s Commission is Paid by the Seller
* Bill Leider — Opportunity costs, Internet Marketing And Opportunity Cost - Connecting The Dots
* Brian Brady — Cleaning up lending, Realtors Hold the Power to Clean Up Lending
* Jeff Brown — Double-edged sword, Double-Edged Sword — OR — Planning & Discipline — What Does Your Retirement Look Like?
* Steve Leung — Hidden factors, Hidden Factors When Calculating a Home’s Value
* Brian Brady — Advertising to Ashley, Advertising to Ashley
* Dustin Luther — Make an impact, 7 Ways to Make an Impact
* Michael Wurzer — Standards and monopolies, Good Standards Break Monopolies, Not Make Them

Pat Kapowich, “Negotiating Smooth Transactions Throughout The South
Bay” SiliconValleyBroker.com