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Making Lemonade

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 quarterly basis with brand new people because we are always meeting great folks on Twitter. If you’d like to follow [...]

The roller coaster that is the real estate market is on the upswing. Don?t think this is the Kingda Ka type of upswing but more like the Teeny Weeny type.

The Pending Home Sales Index from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) rose a paltry 0.1% during the month of May. A more impressive comparison was year-over-year where the index showed a 6.7% increase compared with May 2008. This was the first four-month percentage increase since way back in October of [...]

I just did a post yesterday on Emory University, and now I find that a large number of Emory doctors are being acknowledged for their medical expertise. In Atlanta Magazine?s July 2009 ?Top Doctors? issue, 72 of the 165 doctors identified for recognition are doctors from Emory Healthcare and faculty of Emory School of Medicine. That?s about 44% of all that were recognized ? and they?re all right here in Atlanta.

The list was compiled by health care research [...]

The basic Wikipedia definition of a Short Sale is as follows:

A short sale is a sale of real estate in which the proceeds from the sale fall short of the balance owed on a loan secured by the property sold.

In a short sale, the bank or mortgage lender agrees to discount a loan balance due to an economic or financial hardship on the part of the mortgagor. This negotiation is all done through communication with a bank’s loss mitigation or [...]

Atlanta?s own Emory University, along with the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), has been awarded a $3 million five-year federal grant to build an international center for cardiometabolic disease research in New Delhi, India.

The National Institute of Health (NIH) and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) awarded the grant. The grant will enable Emory?s science department to further research cardiovascular disease and diabetes, diseases that are affecting aggressively more young people. Additional funding for the [...]

It seems like just yesterday ? excess was in and celebrities lived it up, buying lavish cars, expensive toys and over-the-top homes. Now, they're losing it like everyone else.

Rates for 30-year home loans inched downward this week, but still remain above record lows posted during the spring, Freddie Mac said Thursday.

Reuters - The Obama administration on Wednesday expanded its foreclosure prevention efforts to help a greater number of underwater homeowners refinance their mortgages.