This is Episode 1 of our new video series called “In the Nest” where we interview various personalities both inside and outside the real estate industry. In our first episode, we were privileged enough to secure an interview with Tara Hunt (AKA @missrogue) the night before her keynote at the REALTORS Conference & Expo in San Diego this last weekend.

We had the opportunity to sit down with her and ask her why she was chosen to speak at the conference [...]

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So I’m back from attending RE BarCamp San Diego and the 2009 REALTORS Conference & Expo in sunny San Diego. It was one of the best that I have ever attended from a content standpoint. The sessions were well thought out and the speakers were intelligent, insightful and some were even humorous ( Teresa Boardman AKA @tboard, this is targeted to you).

The Expo was a little smaller than in year’s past and there [...]

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There are two types of reals estate agents: the shark and the therapist. Which is right for you?

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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 [...]

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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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The Wikipedia definition of a Widget is as follows:

“A web widget is a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any separate HTML-based web page by an end user without requiring additional compilation. They are derived from the idea of code reuse. Other terms used to describe web widgets include: gadget, badge, module, webjit, capsule, snippet, mini and flake. Web widgets usually but not always use DHTML, JavaScript, or Adobe Flash.”

Now you’ve probably seen widgets before [...]

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When I was pregnant with my first son and nearing the month of his birth in 2005, my nesting instinct took the form of a remodeling tornado.  I painted all three of our bedrooms and our hallway, had new carpet installed, had the heating/cooling system replaced, had copper repiping of our plumbing system done, and ordered my husband to paint every interior door.  A few years later as we expected the birth of our second son, my husband remodeled the [...]

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A lot of discussion has taken place over the last two days with regards to Google and what they are doing with real estate and their map. On the Mashable site, Stan Schroeder states in his post Google Gets Serious About Real Estate Search…In Australia “It’s a sign of the things to come, as this real estate search seems as good (or better) as any you’ve seen on various real estate sites out there.”

While I agree it may “look” [...]

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We use Twitter a lot here at Roost and have made some great connections over the last year. Since we are in the real estate world, we thought we would put together a list of some of the great industry Tweeple you might want to follow if you are new to this great platform. We will update this list on a monthly basis with brand new people because we are always meeting great folks on Twitter. If you’d like to [...]

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Roost was lucky enough to get some air time on the RE:RnD Show today. Special Guest Lani Rosales of Agent Genius talks to Rob and Dustin about the redesign of Roost and some of the great features.

The RE:RnD Show aka Real Estate with Rob & Dustin is a weekly internet radio show where Rob Hahn and Dustin Luther tackle issue related to real estate [...]

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