Apartments.com Searching for Messiest College Apartment .Business Editors/Internet Writers CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 10, 2000 Top College Slob To Win $10,000 for Free Rent and an Apartment Cleaning, Plus $2,000 To Spend on auctions.com College students are notorious for keeping less-than-clean apartments, but haven't yet received the recognition they deserve for the irresponsibility, laziness and apathy it takes to create a mess of appalling proportions. Until now. National online apartment guide Apartments.com (www.apartments.com) has kicked off a search for the messiest college apartment in the U.S. with the first &uot;Apartments.com Messiest College Apartment Contest,&uot; which will award $10,000 for rent and a thorough apartment cleaning to the most blatant example of out-of-control clutter, neglect and filth. As a bonus, the grand-prize winner will also receive $2,000 in e-bucks to spend on auctions.com (www.auctions.com), the world's fastest-growing online auction network and sister site of Apartments.com. Entries for the contest will be accepted between February 10 and March 19, and must include two to four color photos of the nominated apartment and an essay of up to 250 words answering the question: &uot;Why is your apartment the messiest college apartment in the U.S.?&uot; College students can enter online or print out a mail-in entry form at the contest web site, www.apartments.com/messycontest.htm. Contest rules and guidelines for entering can also be found at the contest web site. Photos and essays from three finalists in the Apartments.com Messiest College Apartment Contest will be posted on www.apartments.com/messycontest.htm by April 3, when visitors can cast their vote for the apartment most deserving of the ignominious ig·no·min·i·ous adj. 1. Marked by shame or disgrace: "It was an ignominious end ... as a desperate mutiny by a handful of soldiers blossomed into full-scale revolt" Angus Deming. title of the &uot;messiest college apartment&uot; in the country. The winner will be announced on or about May 1. A virtual tour of the winning apartment, including numerous expandable photos and a Video Walk-Through(TM), will be featured on Apartments.com. &uot;It's about time It's About Time may refer to:
American painter of primitive works, notably The Peaceable Kingdom, of which nearly 100 versions exist. , director of the Apartments.com Messiest College Apartment Contest. &uot;Apartments.com is all about offering the most visual and interactive apartment ads on the web, so I'm guessing that those of us who keep our places clean will be a little shocked by the pictures we put up on the site.&uot; &uot;I'm glad that Apartments.com is finally giving us college students a chance to show off our work,&uot; said Toshiko Hiramatsu, a senior at Northwestern University Northwestern University, mainly at Evanston, Ill.; coeducational; chartered 1851, opened 1855 by Methodists. In 1873 it absorbed Evanston College for Ladies. . &uot;It takes a lot of time and effort to get an apartment as messy as mine. I mean, I have to ignore everything my mom ever taught me. No washing the dishes. Never picking up dirty laundry dirty laundry n. Informal Personal affairs that could cause embarrassment or distress if made public: Let's not air our dirty laundry in front of our guests. Also called dirty linen. . And who has time these days to clean the bathroom?&uot; About Apartments.com Apartments.com is a leading national online apartment guide distinguished by its personalized searches, highly visual ads and affiliation with the local web sites of top newspapers across the country, including the Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Daily newspaper published in Chicago. The Tribune is one of the leading U.S. newspapers and long has been the dominant voice of the Midwest. Founded in 1847, it was bought in 1855 by six partners, including Joseph Medill (1823–99), who made the paper , Washington Post, Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). and The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times. It currently represents about one million apartments in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. Apartments.com is owned by Classified Ventures, Inc. Based in Chicago, Classified Ventures was created by eight of the largest media companies in the U.S.: Gannett Co., Times Mirror Company, Central Newspapers, Inc., Knight Ridder
Knight Ridder (IPA: /ˈrɪdɚ/) was an American media company, specializing in newspaper and Internet publishing. , The McClatchy Company, The New York Times Company, Tribune Company The Tribune Company (NYSE: TRB) is a large American multimedia corporation based in Chicago, Illinois. It is the nation's second-largest newspaper publisher, responsible for the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Hartford Courant and the Washington Post Company. Classified Ventures provides nationally branded online services in classified advertising marketplaces that build upon the local capabilities and expertise of its national affiliate network An affiliate network acts as an intermediary between publishers (affiliates) and (merchant) affiliate programs. It allows publishers to find affiliate programs, which are suitable for their website and it helps websites offering affiliate programs reach its target audience. of more than 130 newspapers throughout the country. Classified Ventures currently operates five national Web sites in the apartment, auction, automotive, relocation and new home construction categories, including Apartments.com (www.apartments.com), Auctions.com (www.auctions.com), cars.com (www.cars.com), MovingCenter.com (www.movingcenter.com) and NewHomeNetwork.com (www.newhomenetwork.com). Classified Ventures also offers HomeHunter as a local resale real estate service on the web sites of its newspaper affiliates. |
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