Real estate professionals have so much to gain from using social media tools, and coming late to the Twitter game may mean losing out on opportunities.

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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 [...]

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(If I saved every realtor notepad I have been given, I would never need one more sheet of paper. Ever.)

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Last month, we announced two new networks and some great new bloggers to the Roost Blog team. Well not one to sit idly by, Roost has reached out and secured another great crop of bloggers who will be providing the type of content you’ve come to expect on “A Bird’s Eye View.”

Joining Kim Tracy Prince as one of our premier Mommy Bloggers on the “Roost Mommy Blogger Network” is Kim [...]

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Last week I told you how I was about to go house hunting for the first time.  We only had about an hour, so Myrna the Realtor had a short list of four houses for us to see.  “They’re a bit out of your price range,” she warned me, “but I want you to get a sense of the neighborhoods that are in these school districts you’re interested in.”

I had checked out two of the properties in the MLS listings [...]

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One thing that always confused me when thinking about home selling/buying was the overlapping nature of the job.  How do you buy a house if you haven’t sold the one you live in?  How do you sell your house if you haven’t already lined up one to buy?

It is that worry that made me hesitate to start looking at homes with Myrna.  We met her several months ago, and our first date to go out and physically look at listings [...]

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In tackling the very grown-up and serious tasks of selling and buying a house for the first time, the first term that made me panic was “pre-approval letter,” because I simply had no idea what it meant. When I heard it I was nowhere near a computer and still didn’t have an iPhone, so I couldn’t look it up on the internet, which is my first instinct in that kind of situation. Thank goodness for the internet, because [...]

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We’ve decided to move.  So now what?

As soon my husband and I opened our minds to the possibility of moving, I was flooded with Overwhelm.  No, that’s not a perfume or a superhero or a celebrity’s baby’s name (although it’s not a bad idea).  It’s that feeling that comes over you when you have no.  Idea.  What you.  Are doing.

Our main goal is to relocate to a neighborhood in which our children would be guaranteed enrollment in a “good school.”  [...]

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In a continuing effort to bring the readers of “A Bird’s Eye View” the most compelling content possible, we are proud to announce two new groups that will be joining us here at the Roost Blog.

First is the “Roost Mommy Blogger Network” that will be bringing us a unique perspective to the happenings in their neck of the woods. Stories will include anything from discussing schools to insights into great local restaurants to buying and selling a home.

We are especially [...]

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