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My father manufactures mens’ outerwear — overcoats, raincoats, jackets. He was with Windbreaker and London Fog for many years, but for the last couple of decades he’s been a private-label vendor: He supplies the goods, the designer or department store supplies its label. One year Consumer Reports reviewed mens’ raincoats and my dad took first, fourth and fifth place with the same raincoat. Different labels, different price points, same coat. The winner was sold by J.C. Penny for $99. Second place went to a $900 Aquascutum.

The Bloodhounds made a run at winning that decisively at this week’s Carnival of Real Estate, but judge Mike Simonsen was smart enough to see through us. I entered three times, and Kris Berg and Brian Brady entered from their home weblogs. A small demonstration of the volume at which we can howl, when we want to. These are the entries I know about (there may have been others from other BHB contributors):

Alas, we didn’t win, although all three of us were mentioned in Mike’s post.

Truly, you can’t win ’em all, but we have won the Carnival of Real Estate more than any other weblog:

Meanwhile, Michael Cook has won the Carnival of Real Estate Investing — count ’em — four times:

To prepare the text for Real Estate Weblogging 101, to make sure I wasn’t missing anything, I went through everything in BloodhoundBlog, post-by-post. What we’ve done so far is impressive, I think. But something became clear to me as I followed our progression through time: We’re getting better.

We are one year young, and there are all those carnivals to come. Cover your ears, y’all. The Bloodhounds ain’t but begun to howl…

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