Previously I spent many years working in marketing and graphic industry being an active real estate investor at Northwest Chicago suburbs as well.

If you don't, leave it off.I used to be a graphic designer 100 years ago.

I left the field to pursue a career in graphic design.

My husband and I bought a cute little Victorian on a lovely block in W.

The home is an older non financeable, very cute single wide with a nice kitchen and large living room.  

Landing pages and Gateway pages are typically pure graphics, makes a statement about the site and/or products and single clicks to a home page. 

In terms of holding a contest - you can look at most of the previous artwork  they have done in the past to get an idea of how good they are and can also ready the comments from their customers - good, bad, or ugly. it's at least worth taking a look - especially if you already know what type of design you are looking for and just need them give a nice polish = if you have no idea what you want to do - I'm sure they have designers who have plenty of ideas - but I have never gone that route as I usually know what I want - just don't know how to graphically design it ( though i do know enough about photoshop to get myself into trouble sometimes) Lets us know how it turns out  and we would love to see your logo when its complete. 

A cute little 1 bedroom condo a block from the beach.

Cute bath, too.

It will keep your text and graphics crisp and clean.You'll have to find a balance between quantity and quality.