Sunshine Coast Sales Challenge - SCMEDHSP

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I am truly humbled and honored to be asked by Skook to select the prize for the winner of the Sunshine Coast Month-End Detached-Home Sales Prediction (SCMEDHSP – pronounced ‘schmedschlapp’) contest for April 2014.

For such an important contest (nearly as important as gauging the affect of HAM on house prices in Vancouver!), I thought I would offer an array of suitable prizes, selected from around the world. Your choice!

1. A coffee-table-style glossy-covered book containing a folio of all threads authored by Skook, bound in rich Corinthian leather. Winner responsible for determining that coffee table can support the weight of this tome.

2. Providing you have sufficient room, this fabulous and charming garden sculpture (bonus prize if you correctly name the Canadian artist responsible!):

   

Delivery and installation at your expense; pickup must occur during a short ‘window’ of opportunity when the local constabulary are asleep, city officials are distracted (ha!) and there is no moon.

3. An all-expense-paid trip by BC Ferries (maximum value CAD$945.00 - one way only, non weekend, maximum vehicle length 13 feet, limited to 2 passengers, refreshments not included; meet the captain $50.00 extra; rare Queen of the North lifesaver available for special purchase) to the Sunshine Coast (includes coffee with Ozzie Jurock) and complimentary tour of successful real estate developments (oh, well, maybe we’ll skip that last part!)

4. Dinner with the Mayor of Gibsons or Sechelt (your choice), catered by a local organic restaurant and held in whichever unsold and empty condo or SFH you want (thousands to choose from!). Dessert will be a luscious pie, chart that is, lovingly prepared in the spotless kitchen of Skook.

5. Complimentary one-month (longer if you want) camping-site reservation on one of the many bare land parcels currently becoming overgrown on the Sunshine Coast. Scenic view and approved development plans included at no charge!

6. A personalized and autographed copy of the Pulitzer-Prize-winning nonfiction work: “Gravel And It’s Role in Modern Neo-Classical Structural Support; Sunshine Coast 1753-1869" ISBN # 938-1455570657.

7. An elegantly-framed photo montage of the intrepid Claytons, Sangaras, Hatfields and McCoys, shown forging ahead with Sunshine Coast developments despite fierce economic headwinds, complete absence of financial viability, attacks by the dreaded brigands the Three Amigos and, of course, lions, tigers and bears, oh my.