If there’s a bigger sucker in the RE.Net world, I have yet to meet them.  I am now 0 for 3 in blogging wagers with my fellow real estate bloggers.  The first loss had me posting on another blogger’s blog.  The second loss resulted in a less than flattering video on You Tube.  And now I’ve lost once more. 

I asked anyone that dared, if they wanted to put their NCAA picks on the line against me, that if I lost, I’d send them a link.  As innocuous a wager as that seems, given the cost of my pervious losses (perhaps this is why I gave less than 24 hrs notice about the wager), you can imagine I was a bit gun shy.  Fortunately for me, I had only one blogging real estate agent take me up on my wager: Bill Komissaroff. 

At the final tally, I accumulated just 780 points on the ESPN scoring system, while Bill finished with 790 points.  My picks were horrid in the first round, tolerable for the second round, and horrid again in the third round.  At one point, my bracket was worse than 95% of all brackets submitted to ESPN.  I’m pretty sure the majority of trained monkeys were picking better than I was.

Somehow, as bad as my picks were, I managed to pick 3 of the final 4, but naturally, my final game was UCLA over UNC, neither of which advanced.  Memphis was the one team I was sure wouldn’t make it to the final four…and of course, they nearly won the whole thing.

Bill’s final game: Pittsburgh over Tennessee.  He was clearly trying to give me a chance, but it would not be.

Bill is a RE/Max agent in Delaware.  His blog is more of a sports related blog, which makes sense, as he is also a radio broadcaster for the University of Delaware.  Clearly Bill is a man of many talents.

I’m not sure what I will feel compelled to wager over in the future, but I’m thinking all I will be able to afford, given my past results is a tweet.  That would limit me to a 140 character obligation.  I might, just maybe, be able to afford that.

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