Belrose Winner To ‘Pimp’ Her Property

Media Release – 17 June 2011

First National Real Estate Manly today announced that a Northern Beaches resident had won First National’s ‘Pimp Your Property’ competition for a Dulux home re-paint worth up to $10,000.

‘Australians just love home ownership and there’s a huge amount of interest in making improvements in order to maximise capital growth. But the last thing people want to do in their spare time is paint their house’ Ben Daniel, principal from First National Manly said.

‘In a sense, we all prosper by riding on the back of our property renovations so we took a tongue in cheek view in the naming of this home re-painting competition’.

Belrose resident Sandra Armstrong, who, coincidentally, once worked with Mr Daniel in another organisation, became aware of the competition through the agency’s online marketing and entered via First National Manly’s website.

‘As registrations for the competition began pouring in, I noticed Sandra’s name in the list of people who had entered via our website’ said Mr Daniel.

‘I rang her up and joked that she had won the competition back in March but when I received a phone call from our head office in Melbourne last week saying that a Ms Armstrong was New South Wales’ winning entry, the joke was on me’ said Mr Daniel.

‘I couldn’t believe it, but then neither could Sandra when a rang her again to tell her that this time, that she really had won the competition and would be receiving a re-paint to the value of $10,000.’

Sandra and her partner visited First National Manly to receive their official prize notification and arrangements are now being made for a consultation to the value of $1000 with a Dulux Colour Consultant, to be followed up shortly afterwards with the home re-paint to the value of $9000.