{"id":6962,"date":"2009-02-19T16:51:36","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T23:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=6962"},"modified":"2009-02-19T17:03:03","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T00:03:03","slug":"max-vs-the-1000-pound-gorilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/6962\/max-vs-the-1000-pound-gorilla\/","title":{"rendered":"Max vs. The 1000-Pound Gorilla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Max.  <span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">He\u2019s the cute little mascot for <a href=\"http:\/\/homegain.com\" target=\"_blank\">Homegain.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.homegain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/max-tar-texas-expo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3oceansrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/move-active-rain.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Meet The 1000-Pound Gorilla<\/a> (Hint: It ain&#8217;t really move.com  Those are really  fists, codename: Thunder and Lightning)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/activerain.com\/blogsview\/937026\/2999-a-month-or-free-Hmmmmmm\" target=\"_blank\">This is Max telling me about the advantages of Homegain.com over on my Active Rain blog.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(about the fourth comment down: Louis Cammarosano)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/activerain.com\/louishomegain\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nThis is a link to the winner of the competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His account was suspended for violation of  AR&#8217;s Terms of Service (advertising in the comments of another blogger).<\/p>\n<p>Yeah right.  Looks like somebody went a bit Ape Sh*t over a major competitor talking to a friend (me) about the value of their company on my blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Max. He\u2019s the cute little mascot for Homegain.com Meet The 1000-Pound Gorilla (Hint: It ain&#8217;t really move.com Those are really fists, codename: Thunder and Lightning) This is Max telling me about the advantages of Homegain.com over on my Active Rain blog. (about the fourth comment down: Louis Cammarosano) This is a link to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,62,24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-dirty-laundry","8":"category-egoism-in-action","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1667,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1667\/the-800-pound-gorilla-in-the-corner-the-meltdown-of-the-wall-street-mortgage-market\/","url_meta":{"origin":6962,"position":0},"title":"The 800 pound gorilla in the corner &#8211; the meltdown of the Wall Street mortgage market","author":"Morgan Brown","date":"July 16, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"As we go about our daily lives in the mortgage and real estate world; dutifully performing our job functions and taking the high road of customer enlightenment via blogs such as Bloodhound; we are faced with a very large gorilla looming in the corner of our workplace. 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