Every year, we at Prudential Kahler REALTORS have a chili cook-off.  Everyone brings in their famous chili and we vote for the best.  We even have a "breads" category to include conbread, muffins, etc.  It gets to be quite a competition.  Prizes are given to the top 3 of the different categories and an all-around traveling trophy has been passed around the past number of years.

This year, an agent lost her husband to a work accident.  So it was decided to open our cookoff as a benefit fundraiser to other REALTORS, associates and friends of the family.  We invited others to bring their entries in.  Each person got to buy as many voting ballots as they wished for $10 per ballot.

We had over 20 chilies (3 different categories) and 17 breads to vote for.  There was about 5 power strips on that conference room table.  I had to draw cords from 2 other rooms to make sure we didn't blow any breakers! 

All in all, we had a constant stream of tasters and voters from 11:30 to 1:30.  By the time it was all said and done, we had consumed alot of chili. scarfed a bunch of bread, and handed our fellow agent an envelope with over $4,000 inside.

It was a good time.  We had good food.  And we did a really good thing to help out one of our own.  Every agent I talked to was not only impressed by the amount of money collected, but also the format in which it was handled.

Sounds like we might have a yearly benefit chili cook-off!  Watch out Rapid City!

Good times!

- Tristan

Tristan Emond
Prudential Kahler REALTORS
www.rapidhomesonline.com