If you ask me, you did a brave thing with your ranking system. Having seen this, I honestly wish I had submitted something, just to see how it would rank. Very cool…and congrats to local Phoenix blogger Jay for faring so well.

Thanks for hosting the carnival… and also for the feedback. Never know when you’re hitting it right until people let you know what you’re doing right/wrong.

Anyhow, for that private money post… as you know… it’s impossible to write a single article that would cover enough that would let people walk away and have a complete action plan and “how to”… that would be even half way readable because of length. It would take up probably 60 pages of text… which as you know is unrealistic.

That’s why me and a real full-time investor (neither of us have a product to sell… ) decided to put on a webinar and just tell people everything we know about how we’ve got private money for our deals… no catch. The webinar actually went very well (had a couple hundred on the line)… we went for over 90 minutes… answered questions at the end… provided other free resources… and never even hinted at a product to buy or anything… just content.

I apologize if the post came across as “salesy”… but we truly have nothing to sell… just giving away great content (I know that’s hard to believe… but that’s what we’re doing.)… and I felt it was worthy of letting people know about.

As far as the top 3 markets post… I agree… there wasn’t much meat there… that article is in reference to an article on the msn real estate website. I realize it isn’t fully comprehensive… it was just a quick article to get people thinking about out of the ordinary markets rather than the typical ones everyone else talks about. I must have missed the boat on that one.

Thanks again for the comments and I hope to improve for next time… any suggestions on specific topics or ways to change for next time would be appreciated.

Thanks again!

Cheers,

– Trevor

P.S. – I’d invite you to head over and check out some of our recent posts that have been featured in past Carnivals very highly… as well as our Capital Gains tax table that was featured in Wall Street Journal Online (www.thereibrain.com/realestate-blog)… in the “Popular Articles” portion at the top. This gives a better idea of what type of information we USUALLY put out… I hope you will agree.

Thanks for including me! I like the idea of your ranking. It makes me want to read all of the posts to see how I can improve.

I really like the looks of your blog. We use the same Theme but you have really added some nice tweaks.