thank you for the kind replies, after the initial response here I was on the verge of withdrawing from the contest. This contest is put on by ultima online and there were 10 fan sites that ran preliminary contests. I entered several houses into the contest and was accepted into the top ten in at least one other preliminary. I am going to set up a link at my website to the different preliminaries once I get the information on which ones I am in and where they are.