Contestant's Case to Win

TheWiserHomeBuyer.com provides a breakdown of the home buying process from determining how much can one afford to putting together a team of professionals to making a wise offer and negotiating with a seller to create a win/win scenario. The site also provides up-to-date news in the real estate market, ways of conserving energy to make a home more eco-friendly along with saving costs, which is extremely important in this current recession. Finally, the site also goes through numerous online shopping deal sites as well as leading retailers to provide home-related shopping deals from furniture and appliances to cookware to bedroom accessories to home gardening. Revenues are generated from referral bonuses paid out for advertisements on the site (which are all relevant and not random ads) as well as commission for products advertised from certain retailers that TheWiserHomeBuyer.com has a relationship with.

I would appreciate any consideration to become this year's winner because I believe TheWiserHomeBuyer.com can be an example of providing an online website that is home-based, yet can make a positive impact to society. In this case, the positive impact would be to educate and encourage people to make their homes more green / eco-friendly to save money and energy; save money shopping for home related items; and lastly, to provide home buyers with the knowledge and tools to evaluate hired professionals (real estate agents, attorneys, home inspectors, lenders), evaluate a buyer's financial status to determine how much can the buyer afford safely, figure out if renting or buying makes better financial sense and to make offers and negotiate with sellers nicely to make a wise investment in purchasing a home.