Dave Gooden

Jeff - thanks! And yes, LakePlace.com is pretty sticky. Our average visitor spends about 24 minutes on the site and we get 3 million + page views per month.

Jason - thanks so much for the kind words...they are very much appreciated!

LakePlace.com (http://www.lakeplace.com) Hi all, I am the co-founder of LakePlace.com - the Midwest's leading vacation home website. Although we never win anything and we normally fly way under the radar - I thought I would throw our hat into the ring. LakePlace.com is a specialty brokerage and a member of 19 MLS boards (virtually every MLS in Minnesota & Wisconsin). Every night we go into these 19 databases and pull out all of the lake property listings (and only the lake property listings) to display on our site - resulting in a true overview of the lake property market in the country's largest lake states (30,000+ lake listings). In short, we created an easy-to-use 2 state MLS database for vacation properties - which has helped LakePlace.com become the most visited vacation property/home website in the Midwest. We launched LakePlace.com in 2003 and have been operating with a relocation company model (referral) since 2005. We work exclusively with the leading agents/brokers in each and every vacation/resort area within the two states...and I'm not just saying that - we really do have only top producing agents and brokers as our members and there is a very deep waiting list to join the LakePlace.com network. In 2007, LakePlace.com generated more than 19,000 email inquiries for our 50+ members. As of today (08/13/08), our closings are up 48% over 2007 - which was our record year. We will never be the size of Zillow, Trulia, Roost, RE/MAX, Coldwell Banker, etc...but we have some very big and bold plans for the future - and I hope you will take a look at what LakePlace.com, and most importantly it's members, have been able to accomplish. If you would like to learn more about us - feel free to contact me - and best of luck to everyone else out here! Dave Gooden Co-founder LakePlace.com http://www.lakeplace.com