Over the weekend, Max, the HomeGain Gorilla, visited a local pumpkin patch in Petaluma, CA. His favorite thing (besides eating funnel cake) was picking out a special pumpkin to take home. He got a little too bounced around in the Haunted Jumpy House (photo below, I’m stuck in the rope).

The whole experience inspired Max to insist that we throw a Halloween contest amongst agent members!

Halloween is less than 3 weeks away, so, if you are carving a pumpkin this year, decorating your office or have clients who are decorating their homes, get your camera ready.

We will have prizes for several categories. There will even be a special prize awarded for Best Costume for Max!

Who’s excited??

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The weather forecast looks good for this weekend in many states, and Max the HomeGain Gorilla loves to attend barbecues! He’s searching for homes to visit as part of the HomeGain “Share The Smiles” campaign, so…

If you are a real estate agent or broker who has a Max Gorilla already, take a photo of him with you at your Memorial Weekend BBQ and email it to us so we can post to the Max Photo Gallery.

Don’t forget to include your contact info so we can credit your account with 25 Max Points!

Or upload the photo to the HomeGain Fan Page on Facebook.

If you are someone who has found a Realtor through HomeGain who helped you buy or sell a home, send us a photo of you at your home this weekend and we’ll send you a Max Gorilla!

Remember to tell us who your Realtor is, your name and city/state (maybe even a short story, too) so we can post your photo on the Share The Smiles page.

Although HomeGain was not an exhibitor this year at the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) Annual Conference & Expo in San Diego, California, we sent our best representative, Max The HomeGain Gorilla, to greet hundreds of Realtors as they entered the real estate trade show over the weekend.

Did you spot the Max-mobile truck? (See photos below) Let us know if you did!

Max-mobile at the NAR Annual Expo in New Orleans

Max, the orange HomeGain Gorilla, is taking a spin around the streets of New York. Max is on a Find a Realtor/What’s My Home Worth? tour that encourages New Yorkers to find and compare New York Realtors or to look up home prices on HomeGain’s instant home valuation tool. This is Max’s first motor tour since hitting the streets or San Francisco and Phoenix last year.

Max’s driver, Hoke Wolliz, is handing out free Home Sale Maximizer brochures,  a useful tool for anyone planning to sell their home.

If you spot Max, let us know!

Better yet, send us a photo of the “Max Mobile” and we’ll send you a Max gorilla of your own.

Next up for Max: San Diego, California — Max will be visible there this Fall in anticipation of the National Association of Realtors (NAR) Annual Conference and Expo.

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Last October, HomeGain displayed its first seasonal header. It was an animated Halloween header pictured below.

It wasn’t long before Max, the HomeGain Gorilla got into the act.

Max made his debut appearance on a HomeGain header just in time for Thanksgiving last year:

Ever since, all HomeGain seasonal headers have featured Max.

Max followed his Thanksgiving header with an appearance in holiday attire:

Max also helped HomeGain bring in the New Year:

On the next page you can see more Max headers.

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Max, the HomeGain gorilla, fresh back from his trip to India has been resting up by taking long walks along the San Francisco Bay…

…and hanging in the Sierras…

…in anticipation of his second annual “What’s Your Home Worth” /”Find a Realtor” auto tour.

Max will be firing up his Max Mobile and hitting the streets of San Diego and New York loaded cases of with his favorite drink– coconut milk and a half dozen jars of jelly beans.

But first… Max is heading to Atlanta…

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