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 26th, 2009 by Kim Tracy Prince in Diary of a Moving Mom, Features
(If I saved every realtor notepad I have been given, I would never need one more sheet of paper. Ever.)
October 13th, 2009 by roostblog in Features
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 [...]
September 30th, 2009 by Kim Tracy Prince in Diary of a Moving Mom, Features
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 [...]
July 8th, 2009 by roostblog in Industry News, Real Estate
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” [...]
July 2nd, 2009 by roostblog in Industry News, Real Estate
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 [...]
June 11th, 2009 by roostblog in Industry News
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 [...]
June 3rd, 2009 by roostblog in Industry News, Real Estate
When was the last time you got excited about a search engine? 1998? Okay so maybe we are not the all mighty Google but we think we have just raised the bar when it comes to real estate search.
After a little more than a year, we are officially coming out of beta, introducing the new Roost.com and hopefully putting a little fun back into searching for your perfect home.
What is new you ask?
Well for starters you will probably notice that [...]
February 25th, 2009 by roostblog in Industry News
So like everyone else, I’m pretty sick and tired of all the constant negative talk about the real estate industry that the media seems to spew on us on almost a daily basis. It really gets to me when they make huge sweeping generalizations about the real estate market across the nation. So with the help of some of my close real estate friends, I thought I would provide a glimpse into some local markets to see how the “feet [...]
February 3rd, 2009 by roostblog in Real Estate
What do you think it signals when a city or town has more homes in foreclosure than traditional listings?
a) Buyer beware – it means that market is headed for a fall
b) Buy opportunity – it means buyers have leverage
c) Neither
Please provide your answer in the comment section with any additional tidbits of information you might have.
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