Healy Wins Housing Rumble
United Nations election officials (or perhaps it was just me) today certified as "clean" and "without improprieties" a vote to decide a heated online real estate debate and declared Greg Healy the winner.
At 1:13 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, Healy, vice president of operations at ForSaleByOwner.com, a Web-based company that markets the homes of independent sellers, was officially handed the title, with 66 percent of the votes. His debate counterpart, Jay Thompson, a blogger and real estate broker in Phoenix, received 34 percent.
The parties competed in the "Housing Rumble," a regular feature on U.S. News's Home Front blog that matches up opposing sides of an issue in an online debate and lets readers decide the winner.
The subject of this Rumble was: "Do you need a real estate agent to sell your home?"
Housing Rumble commissioner Luke Mullins issued this statement after votes had been tabulated:
"The Home Front would like to congratulate Greg Healy and Jay Thompson for passionately and intelligently articulating their positions. Both men demonstrated themselves to be classy and tough competitors.
"Healy should expect to receive his Housing Rumble championship belt in the coming weeks, after it has been smelted and insured. We trust he will accept our invitation to defend his title."
Here's a recap of the action, in case you're just tuning in:
Day 1 (Thompson)
Day 2 (Healy)
Day 3 (Thompson)
Day 4 (Healy)
Day 5 (Thompson)
Day 6 (Healy)
Housing Rumble Polls Open
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Still waiting on the vote totals
If you are going to smelt a title belt in honor of a man that regurgitates BS such as freakonomics, please do us the honor of posting the vote totals. Statistics without context are useless.
100% of the people looking at my computer monitor right now think Jay won hands down.
Interesting debate
I'd be interested to know how many people actually voted. Luke, do you have any figures on that? You only provided percentages.
Nice Job Luke!
Thanks Luke for the opportunity to debate Greg. And congrats to Greg for spanking me in the voting.
Sadly, a large contingent that would have voted in my favor was at a conference in San Francisco with very limited internet access during the voting.
Oh well. A real estate agent stands little chance of winning a popularity vote regardless. Hopefully I was able to at least provide some education for those willing to listen.
It was fun!
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