Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Will A Discount Brokerage Save You Money At The End Of The Day When Selling Your House?
Will, a discount brokerage save you money at the end of the day when selling your house ?
Transcript of Video
Hello everybody. This is Mark Schreier with century 21 American Homes and today's topic is will a discount brokerages save you money? For total disclosure. I want to tell you that I will be looking down every now and then on my computer screen because I made a lot of bullet points and I want to make sure I cover them. This is a very important topic. It's one that's asked many a time. A lot of people consider a discount brokerages and I totally understand why because everybody's looking to save money, uh, if they can. So let's discuss it piece by piece first. What is a discount brokerage company? A discount brokerage company is basically a company that charges less and claims they'll get the same job done. Does that make sense to you? It doesn't make too much sense to me that people can charge significantly less and actually get the same results.
Well, let's dig into it a little more. How do these companies charge a lower brokerage fee and stay in business? Again, if they're charging less, is gotta be something they're cutting back on to stay in business and one is they reduce their services. How do they do that? Well, a couple of ways. One is they won't put your property on the MLS, and if you're familiar with the multiple listing service, it has one of the largest buyer pools linked to it. It goes on every single website and every single a realtor, not all real estate agents are Realtors, but every single Realtor has access to the MLS. And that is a significant way to get your house maximum maximum exposure. So if they don't put it on the MLS, they're just listing it, either a on craigslist, Zillow, Trulia, all of the above, maybe just one, maybe none.
Uh, some companies just put it in what they call an exclusive market for their particular company. If they have the, you know, they have an email that goes out, they send it out in every agent in their company will have access to your house that's been on the market. And if they have a buyer attached to them, which they could, then you have a chance of making a deal that way. But something to keep in mind. They're limiting it to their internal um, agents. Next thing, excuse me. And if an outside agent was to bring a deal, somehow the outside agent found out about this listing because they went on craigslist or they went on Zillow or some other, um, media that they found it on or word of mouth and they brought a buyer because it's not on the MLS. That agent is going to, is going to be hooked up as a buyer broker contract.
And they will say, I require x amount of percentage points or x amount of dollars to bring my bio to you. And then this discount that you had now becomes a much less of a discount. The next thing that you're going to do. And the next thing that will happen is you starting to understand now that by doing these things, they significantly reduce the buyer pool because everybody on the MLS, the majority of the agents have a significant amount of buyers that are waiting in the shadows that they know. I'm looking for this house, whether it be a ranch, a splanch, a split, three bedrooms, two bath, this school district, they have them waiting in. They're waiting for that property to come on the market so they can bring their buyers to it. They're looking and doing the work for their bias. Or the buyers don't have to be looking at their phones and at the MLS, um, every day or sometimes every hour to see what's coming up for them.
Uh, the agent does the work for you. The other way that you can have a reduced, um, brokerage fee is a flat fee brokerage. And what a flat fee brokerage does is they tell you upfront, they're gonna charge you, let's just pick a number out, $600 to list your house for three or four months. They'll put it up on the MLS, but you now become the agent. All phone calls and all inquiries go to your phone number. You deal with, um, setting the price. You deal with the photos. And on the note of photos, they are very, very important to have professional quality photos put out on the mls because that is the first place majority of buyers will find your house. And if you have poor photos, they might just go buy it and say, that doesn't look nice just because you had the wrong angle.
Or you had, you know, something like the toilet seat up when you took a picture. Something as silly as that. So make sure you get professional photography done as well. Um, all buyer's agents have to call you. I mentioned that. And you handle all open houses, transactions and deal with home inspectors, attorneys appraises, et Cetera. Do you really walk away with more money? At the end of the day, you're gonna do the math. If you have reduced exposure by all the means I just explained and you possibly set the wrong price, whether it be too high or too low, you're going to most likely end up with less money in your pocket. And that even though you might've paid less for the commission up front, the fact that you're getting a lower sales price at the end of the day you do the math, does that actually equal more money or less money that was charged for this transaction to take place?
And on that note, full-service brokers just give you a quick outline of what they do. They charge nothing up front unless the house sells. They have a very large marketing budget that gives your property maximum exposure and remember, maximum exposure, larger buyer pool chance of getting a higher price for your house. And let's say they're all trained to negotiate the best deal. We know the Lo the local market better than anybody else. Most of the discount brokers, some of them are from other states, they just post it up online. They look at a couple of 'em listings, um, maybe on the mls or on Zillow, but they really have never been in the house and they don't know those properties. They don't know the niche areas in the neighborhood that some of these neighborhoods, some of these little blocks pull more than than other blocks in an area.
And we can give you a custom marketing plan to get the job done. So with all that information now on your side, you do the math and answer the question, will a discount brokerage actually save you money at the end of the day? Give me a thumbs up if you like the video again, thumbs down if not so good and please subscribe to the channel. Thanks for watching.
Hello? Yes, I'm talking to you, the person that watched my video to the very end. Thanks a lot for watching. If you enjoyed it, please give me a big thumbs up. Subscribe to my youtube channel like me on Facebook. I am a licensed real estate agent in New York state, but I also have a referral service that deals nationwide. So if you're looking for to buy or sell a house anywhere in the United States, please send me a text, contact me via phone, and I'll set you up with a local professional in your area. If you're in my facility, I'd be more than happy to help you out in any of your real estate transactions that you'd like. This is Mark Schreier from century 21 American Homes, and I'll talk to you soon.
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
How to keep your home cool and improve indoor air quality
Summer heat may be good if you're at the beach or pool, but when you're at home, it often means fighting scorching temperatures with costly air conditioning. Not only can this feel like an endless battle during the dog days of summer, but leaving the trapped hot air in your home can also worsen indoor air quality.
Considering people spend an average of 90 percent of their time indoors, this is a big deal. Proper ventilation has many benefits, from keeping a home comfortable all summer long to improving overall home health, including removing pollutants and stale indoor air to improve air purity. What's more, when you ventilate strategically, you can enjoy cost savings as you won't have to use your air conditioner as frequently.You may be able to block the sun strategically using blinds and shades while opening windows on the particularly cool evenings, but if you really want to embrace the trend of healthy home ventilation, consider systems that focus on specific parts of your home, including the attic, garage and indoor spaces.
Whole house fans
Whole House Fans don’t just recirculate air in your home like air conditioning does; they work by continuously replacing it with fresh air in your home and attic, will pull the cool, fresh outside air into your living spaces through your windows. Then they push hot, stale indoor air through your attic and out the vents.
During the warmer months, using this Whole House Fan cools the air in your house as well as the structure and contents. This helps cool your home including your attic by up to 30 degrees, allowing those areas to stay much cooler the following day, which is the principle of Thermal Mass Cooling. This equates to fresher air and lower overall costs to keep your home cool when compared to air conditioning.
Attic fans
When the heat of summer hits, hot air needs to be vented from your attic to keep living spaces comfortable, air conditioning units from overworking, and roof structures and materials from deteriorating. With attic fans, your attic stays cool and dry while you enjoy greater comfort in your home, lower utility bills and prolonged roof life.
These solar-powered attic fans help keep spaces from reaching incredibly high temperatures when the sun beats down on the top of a home, plus you can feel good about adding to the eco-friendly features of your home.
Garage fans
For many people, the garage is an extension of the home and offers a bounty of usable space. Whether it's your place to work on your car, your fitness or a DIY project, you want to keep the heat out. Solatube offers two great solutions: powered and solar-ventilation fans to remove heat and fumes from any garage all day, so you can enjoy your garage in total comfort.
Solar-powered systems run all day without using any electricity so you keep the entire space cool with no cost to operate. You can mount different solar fans on the side of the garage or the roof depending if you have an open ceiling or a living space above the garage. For garages with attic space above them, keep both spaces cool and comfortable and your home protected from the elements with Solatube's powered garage fan that pulls hot air out of the garage and attic while bringing cool air in from the outside.
With people spending more time indoors than ever before, it's important to stay comfortable while also being mindful of indoor air quality. Smart ventilation systems let you have both comfort and cool during the toughest days of summer. Learn more at www.solatube.com.
Thinking of Moving To Plainview, New York? Video Tour
Thinking of Moving To Plainview New York? Check out this video tour of my home town. Old Country Road, South Oyster Bay Road, Greenfield's Shoprite, Trader Joes see it all.
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Tuesday, August 6, 2019
What Can You Do Today To Make Sure Your House Is As Secure And Safe As Possible Before You Move In?
What can you do today to make sure your house is as secure and safe as possible before you move in? This is Mark Schreier from Century 21 American homes and that's what we're going to be discussing.
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Transcript of Video
Hello everybody. This is Mark Schreier from Century 21 American Homes, with today's tips, security of your house. A lot of people when they move into a house, they think of everything or they think they thought of everything except security. You take care of moving, you take care of your phone, your cable, getting everything hooked up for when you move in. Before you even do that, you should take care of your actual security of the house, meaning the doors.
Make sure you change the locks on the door. If there is a front back inside door, all those doors need to have new locks installed with new keys or key pads before you move in up here or anything of value in the house. Number two, key pad on the garage, particularly if the garage door has access. There's another door to get access to your house. Make sure that it is secure. Change the keypad code as well. And another safety tip for security and also fires.
Go through your home inspection. That I believe everybody gets done and if you didn't, you should get one done before you start moving your things in. Make sure that you take care of the most important things on there. For example, fire safety if the um,
the home, the home inspectors said that your missing carbon monoxide detectors, fire detectors, make sure you install them. Also make sure that you check the batteries on them. Some of the older protectors have batteries you've got to replace once a year. The newer ones have 10 year batteries and then they're disposable. You've got to buy a new one every 10 years. Check those smoke detectors as well. These are three tips that can help save your life and I hope that you use them. Mark Schreier from Century 21 American Homes. And thanks for watching.
Hello? Yes, I'm talking to you, the person that watched my video to the very end. Thanks a lot for watching. If you enjoyed it, please give me a big thumbs up. Subscribe to my youtube channel like me on Facebook. I am a licensed real estate agent in New York state, but I also have a referral service that deals nationwide. So if you're looking for to buy or sell a house anywhere in the United States, please send me a text, contact me via phone, and I'll set you up with a local professional in your area. If you're in my vicinity, I'd be more than happy to help you out in any of your real estate transactions that you'd like. This is Mark Schreier from century 21 American Homes, and I'll talk to you soon.
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Thursday, August 1, 2019
Nassau County Introduces A New Service To Protect Homeowners From Title Fraud
Nassau County Introduces A New Service To Protect Homeowners From Title Fraud.This service will alert property owners with an email notification when a document with their name and address is filed with the office of the Nassau County Clerk.
Transcript of Video
Hello Nassau county homeowner. This is Mark Schreier from Century 21 American Homes Real Estate, and like most of us when we get bulk mailing in the mail, we end up throwing it in the trash. But I did happen to read one recently because it looked like it had some important information and stay tuned because that's gonna be what I'm going to discuss with you on this upcoming video.
Hello. This is Mark Schreier with Century 21 American Homes, Real Estate and every now and then I find an important public service announcement. And today I'm going to discuss with you a mailing that I recently got a bulk mailing So a lot of us including myself throw these things out without even looking at it this time I decided to read it.
And it's from the county clerk. It looks like this
from Marin O'Connell and this one is actually a good one. Um, for anybody looking to protect their house when it comes to filings, uh, on for their property. And what it is, is a service that you sign up for online. I will include the link.
Would this and you sign up online, you
include your name, your contact information, and any time there's any sort of um, filing in the county clerk's office on your property, you will get an email notification. I haven't gotten any emails and notifications yet. I don't know how quickly they'll be generated. But I'll read you the, a little, um, tidbit of the first or second paragraph. It says, this new service will alert property owners with an email notification when a document with their name is filed with the Office of the Nassau County Clerk. Uh, she's trying to protect the records and, and um, that's a good thing. So again, look for this mailing in your mail if it's lying around. If not, there is a link. You go directly to that particular website and you just put in your contact information and it's another way to protect yourself. Because I will tell you as a realtor, a lot of times sellers, when they put their house up on the market and they finally get that buyer, all of a sudden there was a problem with the title that their leans on their house that they didn't expect.
So in this case, you get a chance to be proactive rather than reactive. Even if you don't plan on selling your house in the near future, it's definitely something that you should take care of now so you don't have the headaches later. Hello? Yes, I'm talking to you, the person that watched my video to the very end. Thanks a lot for watching. If you enjoyed it, please give me a big thumbs up. Subscribe to my youtube channel like me on Facebook. I am a licensed real estate agent in New York state, but I also have a referral service that deals nationwide. So if you're looking for to buy or sell a house anywhere in the United States, please send me a text, contact me via phone and I'll set you up with a local professional in your area. If you're in my vicinity, I'd be more than happy to help you out in any of your real estate transactions that you'd like. This is Mark Schreier from Century 21 American Homes, and I'll talk to you soon.
RESOURCES & LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO: Nassau County Clerk Fraud Alert Sign Link: Fraud Alert Application Please feel free to contact me with questions via: email, text or a phone call. email: Realtor@markschreier.com Cell: 516.263.9094 Subscribe to my YouTube Channel:
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