November 3rd, 2009 by roostblog in Features
His winning entry hit my email box literally seconds after I posted the last clue on Twitter.
Ryan is the CMO for Koombea, co-creator of Hi I’m and founder of Neighborsville. Ryan also has an awesome personal blog about his Adventures in Marketing and Social Media. You should check it out.
Congratulations Ryan and we hope you share with us what you are going to do with [...]
November 3rd, 2009 by Kim Tracy Prince in Diary of a Moving Mom, Features
Joe Celentano, a dear old friend of mine, became a real estate agent in Connecticut many years ago after a long career in the restaurant industry. He’d had enough of that – the hassle, the expense, the 24/7 worry. Real estate is not without worry, of course, but the reward he feels when he helps a family find a home they love is worth it for him.
If I hadn’t stumbled into a relationship with an agent here in Los [...]
November 2nd, 2009 by roostblog in Local Market Insight
Crime might pay for a while, but sooner or later, you’re gonna have to pay the piper.
That’s what Sabrina Weinberg and others found out after being arrested, indicted and later sentenced for mail and mortgage fraud. She will serve two years in the pokey and three years under supervised release.
According to court documents, Osman Al-Bari, Jamilah Al-Bari, Timothy Reed, Terrence White, Kara McIntosh and others in the mortgage industry paid straw buyers, including Weinberg, $10,000 for each property they [...]
November 1st, 2009 by roostblog in Local Market Insight
Crime might pay for a while, but sooner or later, you’re gonna have to pay the piper.
That’s what Sabrina Weinberg and others found out after being arrested, indicted and later sentenced for mail and mortgage fraud. She will serve two years in the pokey and three years under supervised release.
According to court documents, Osman Al-Bari, Jamilah Al-Bari, Timothy Reed, Terrence White, Kara McIntosh and others in the mortgage industry paid straw buyers, including Weinberg, $10,000 for each property they [...]
October 31st, 2009 by Derek Overbey in Features
If you have been following us since last Tuesday, you are probably familiar with our “Where’s Waldo” contest. In this contest we are providing clues on a daily basis to help you find a home that we picked to win a Kodak Zi8 Digital Video Camera. Well we promised to do a blog post to provide you with some insight on how to use Roost.com, more specifically the filters so you could narrow your home search for the contest. Well [...]
October 31st, 2009 by Heather DeDona in Real Estate
This is the first post from a member of the Roost Local Agent Blogging Team, Heather DeDona. Heather is a wonderful agent from the state of North Carolina who serves the “Triad.” You can find more information by visiting her website. Please join me in congratulating Heather on her first post.
What’s not to love about our pets? They are loyal, cute, fun, non-judgmental, some of them shed, wait that isn’t a good thing.
What do your pet(s) have [...]
October 30th, 2009 by Derek Overbey in Features, Local Market Insight
I live in San Jose and I have kids. Parks and Playgrounds are a huge part of my family’s life. But when you live in a city that covers approximately 175 square miles, it’s sometimes difficult to find any park, let alone the best ones.
So the team at roost.com decided to take on the work of aggregating all the parks and playgrounds in the city my family calls home. Below we have more than 165 parks and playgrounds in the [...]
October 28th, 2009 by roostblog in Local Market Insight
Barrington has a big decision to make – whether to build an expensive new high school … or not.
A cursory check into costs shows that the project could be completed by 2014 for approximately $27 million. Operating costs may not be any more than what it costs the community to ship students off to Dover right now.
At a recent meeting to discuss the future possibilities of the new high school, residents voiced concerns over the costs of the new [...]
October 28th, 2009 by Kim Moldofsky in Features, Have I Got a House for You
This week in Kim Moldofsky’s Roost blog, Have I Got a House for You! she meets with potential listing agents to determine the right selling price for her house.
October 27th, 2009 by roostblog in Features
Roost wants to make someone’s day again. Just like we did in August when we announced that Margaret Chaidez won a Flip Mino HD Camcorder for participating in our feedback contest.
This time, we want to give away a Kodak Zi8 Digital Video Camera and we want to have a little fun in the process. Introducing the “Where’s Waldo” Home finding contest on Roost.com. The concept is pretty simple.
1. The members [...]
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