My family of 7 is supported by my full time graphic design job which (when you factor in the hours commuting) has me gone about 60+ hours a week. 

As a graphic artist, I can make marketing materials, but without something to market it's not terribly useful.I'm not trying to be negative (or positive for that matter)... just trying to make a realistic evaluation of what is possible.  

@Brandon Hall,Again, the total scenario cannot be easily summarized, though it can be depicted graphically.

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.

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. 

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

Do you realize that the actual graphic with the lots has the owners name?