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As the Bahamas gears up for the holiday season, Bahamas Realty Limited announces the launch of it’s Third Annual Holiday Home Showcase lighting competition. A number of new elements give entrants more ways to win, organizers explain.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Ho Ho Holiday Spirit is spreading. I\u2019ve already seen Christmas lights brightening the night. \u00a0Home owners are calling us to sign up early so we are confident that our Third Annual Bahamas Realty Holiday Home Showcase lighting competition will be even more popular than before!\u201d says Robin Brownrigg, President of the 64-year old company on East Bay St., Nassau.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve even had inquiries from realtors in the U.S. and have given them access to our bright idea,\u201d says Bahamas Realty CEO Larry Roberts, who spread the word during a Leading Real Estate Companies of the World conference last year.<\/p>\n
A new feature this year widens participation in the Showcase–Tree Trimming–the idea of Sales Agent Marissa Knowles.<\/p>\n
All entrants are eligible for weekly random draws for a $25 gift certificate, with the most unusual or most beautifully decorated tree in the whole Facebook Tree Trimming event winning a $100 grand prize–chosen by Facebook voters. It\u2019s sponsored by Rocky Farms Nursery, where live or cut Christmas trees and poinsettias already await shoppers.<\/p>\n
“The Bahamas Realty Holiday Home Showcase has been very popular, so this year we really wanted to expand the categories and offer more ways for everyone to get involved and win. The Bahamas Realty Tree Trimming competition brings the festive competition into the home for an exciting new twist,” according to Mrs. Iona Henderson, Bahamas Realty Marketing Manager, who spearheads the Holiday Home Showcase events this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur grand prize for the outdoor lighting competition is again a $1,000 gift certificate from the stores of Builder\u2019s Mall, as well as a $500 charitable donation from Bahamas Realty to the winner\u2019s favourite charity. Other prizes include a Eureka vacuum cleaner and five gallons of Devoe Paint from Jolly Roger and Paint Suppliers, Shirley St; and third prize, dinner for two at Luciano\u2019s of Chicago, East Bay.\u201d says Sales Associate, Broker, and host of \u201cBahamas Realty Now\u201d, Sara Parker, whose idea launched the competition.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s sort of an outgrowth from our \u2018Bahamas Realty Now\u2019 television show with the sponsors donating all the prizes in the first two years. Now other companies are joining in, making the season even brighter.\u201d<\/p>\n
She continues, \u201cWe also have weekly random draws for a bucket of chicken from KFC Nassau and certificates for a dozen donuts from Dunkin Donuts. The People\u2019s Choice Award, strictly from Facebook votes, has been very popular: $500 of BEC Bucks to help with the holiday electricity bill.\u201d Random draw winners for both competitions will be announced on The Bahamas Realty Facebook page each Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Mr. Roberts recalls the event\u2019s origin in a sales meeting year before last: \u00a0\u201cWe were reminiscing about how exciting it used to be for children to go see the wonderful Christmas lights covering that little house on Shirley St. We decided to try to inspire more homeowners to make the season brighter.\u201d<\/p>\n
“A sales meeting and a childhood memory fueled a spark that led to a flame of enthusiasm. It spread like wildfire through the office of Bahamas Realty to the streets of Nassau. In just three weeks, a team of committed agents took an idea of brightening the Bahamas at Christmas, implemented it and held an island wide Holiday Home Showcase competition,\u201d with the assistance of passionate judges and a police escort for the judging, wrote Andrea Brownrigg in her blog. She is a Bahamas Realty director and a founding member of the steering committee for the Showcase.<\/p>\n
The deadline for entries this year is Dec.14, with five finalists judged live on Tuesday, Dec. 17. Electronic entry forms are available on line at Bahamas Realty\u2019s Facebook page and website, and at the Bahamas Realty office on East Bay St. For logistical reasons, Family Island entrants are only eligible for the People\u2019s Choice Award, and the Tree Trimming Awards which will be determined by the number of likes for the entry\u2019s photo on The Bahamas Realty Facebook<\/a> page. Facebook voting starts Nov. 25. Winners will be announced Dec. 19th.<\/p>\n \u201cWe can\u2019t wait to see the creative Christmas lights go on all over New Providence and Paradise Island. We are all encouraging our neighbors and clients to enter whether their properties are huge or tiny. What counts is the brightness of the idea!\u201d says Bahamas Realty Partner Gordon Wilde.<\/p>\n \u201cRemember, all you need to do to enter is fill out the short simple entry form on Facebook or on paper and turn it in along with ONE photo of this year\u2019s display, or enter by email at: holiday (at) bahamasrealty.bs.\u201d<\/p>\n Look for details, tips and last years\u2019 winners in the December \u201cBahamas Realty Now\u201d TV show airing each Monday at 7 p.m.on JCN Cable Channel 14; and each Wednesday at 8 p.m. \u00a0and Thursday at 11 a.m. on ZNS TV-13 on Cable Channel 11.<\/p>\n Mrs. Henderson adds, \u00a0\u201cRemember, Holiday Home Showcase entries don\u2019t have to be elaborate. \u00a0We just want every household to participate — however they can–to share the joy of the Season.\u201d<\/p>\n By P. S. News\/Features<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Caption: Steering Committee members are: \u00a0(From left) Sales Associate Marissa Knowles (Tree Trimming), Marketing Manager Iona Henderson (Chairperson), Director and Broker Andrea Brownrigg, Broker Sara Parker (Executive Producer and Host of \u201cBahamas Realty Now\u201d TV), Sales Associate Brian Austin (Peoples Choice, BEC Bucks). Photo by P. S. News Features<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As the Bahamas gears up for the holiday season, Bahamas Realty Limited announces the launch of it’s Third Annual Holiday Home Showcase lighting competition. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":43634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[117,1514,1967,28],"class_list":["post-43633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-christmas","tag-competition","tag-holiday","tag-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}