Can I Sell My House During This Coronavirus Pandemic?

✔Can I SELL My House During The Coronavirus Pandemic?

✔What are the pros and cons of listing now vs waiting it out?

✔Can I list my house during this pandemic?

✔What are the NYS guidelines in regards to real estate during the Coronavirus Pandemic?

✔What is a virtual open house?

✔When will the Real Estate (housing) market return to normal?All these are discussed in this video.

Transcript of Video:

should you be selling your house during this coronavirus pandemic that's the

topic of my next video should you be listing your property now during the

corona virus pandemic is it better for you what are the pros and cons of

listing now versus waiting it out how bad is this how can it affect you if

you're selling your property with the aid of a real estate agent and when is

this all gonna end and will the market recover and if so how quick that's the

topic of what I'm gonna discuss in this video now make sure you watch it to the

very end because there's gonna be a lot of good tips in here and I what I'm

gonna say in preface what this is in New York State this is Long Island

everything in real estate is local and so it seems that this virus even though

it's in 50 or all the states in the nation some areas this area and

particularly is being hit very hard what's that being said right now Long

Island is or Nassau County is being hit the hardest from any other areas in the

state that's not good news however we're learning more and more about it every

day but there's so many unknowns keep that in mind there are so many unknowns

uncertainty drives people crazy it definitely should make you be more

cautious about a list in your property not saying not to we'll discuss that in

a little while but listing your property as an agent going into a property and

naturally dealing with people with the social distancing rules are in effect in

New York State real estate agents we're talking about

selling your house real estate agents are still allowed to list properties we

have to do it virtually we have to do it via the Internet in some fashion that's

secure and up to this point about a week ago a lot of people were using video

conferencing software some of the similar to zoom and then we just got

notification that zoom is not that secure so you have to really be careful

and speak to your attorney about this about how they want to go about

communicating back and forth and as we know there are a lot of different

components to a cell of a house so the legal aspect the mortgage aspect banks

have different roles than real estate agents do real estate agents and banks

of different rules and attorneys do but always seeing your attorneys advice on

how to go about the best way to do it to protect yourself with that I'm gonna

cover with the real estate agent role in New York State and selling your property

we are allowed right now to do virtual listings which myself and century 21

American Homes has been using virtual dock signing software for the last 18

months so it's not new to us so it is relatively a simple process to get your

house on the MLS but why do it what's the advantage what's the advantage with

can buyers buy my house well I'm going to include a link to these two videos

that I did I have made about the coronavirus one about buying and the

other about listing your house virtually so make sure you check them out there'll

be the link in the description below and that should answer most of those most of

those questions so let's get back to I list the property I can get everything

signed I'm gonna just basically go through what are the advantages well

there's a lot of downtown you're sitting at home watching this YouTube video and

by the way if you like it definitely give me a thumbs up and don't forget to

subscribe and share it with all your friends who are sitting in their houses

with nothing better to do the advantages are you list now you get more eyes on

your house and well I don't have pictures of my house the house has never

been listed before we have we are I will instruct you or teach you how to take

some basic shots of your property once things clear we send a professional

photographer in to your property to get things done well some people might say

well photographers in New York State are allowed to go in there could central

essential services well here's the part I'm going to touch on I mentioned

earlier about the severity of this virus you only need to catch it once I don't

want to take the chance I don't want you taking the chance of somebody walking in

your house and even doing a virtual open house

if you're not in the house me or any other real estate agent is putting

themself at a risk of going in there again we don't know how the viruses

courts so I rather not take the risk and I'd rather you not go through the risk

so you can list your house virtually you can take the pictures with our tips on

how to do it people are going to understand it's a brand new listing and

they're gonna cut you some slack we're doing the best we can so now your house

is basically up there with everybody else's houses that have decided to list

or have been up there already previous to the lockdown we get calls I get phone

calls coming in about buyers wanting to buy and once they come in I take their

name I answer questions I can send them more pictures if they request that and I

just basically do a phone tag contact you email you tell you to update

pictures of the yard of the bathroom whatever it is they want to see send it

to them will they buy online chances are they won't

some people might relocations that have to come in some people have been buying

without seeing properties and just using video conferencing for a long time it's

more of a corporate thing they do do it will they probably not but at least now

they know your property they know if they want to continue to if they want to

see it after we get the lockdown order removed well they just want to move on

so you can and we can market the property to the best of our ability so

that's a pro about this whole virtual getting your house on the market now now

when is this gonna end will the market recover quickly will it be what we call

a V or will it be more of a check I've heard economists say bulbs and the

economists are saying because the economy and the housing market was so

strong pre-coated nineteen that it is going to rebound the longer it takes in

that we are in lockdown but longer it's going to take to rebound but it's not

like back in a way when we were in a recession and everything was set up the

whole system was basically out of whack the economy was strong it is set strong

people are waiting to work the problem is once we start this

particular economist and I think it was called the bowtie economist you can

google him he basically said that it's gonna take too long it's like having a

huge huge one of the you just financial systems in the world which it is and

everything's been put on halt it didn't just slowly stop it was

stopped like that and then you gotta fire it up again and some companies are

going to be able to rebuild with the stimulus package and get back to

business but it's gonna take time so I agree it's probably gonna be more of a

check than a recovery but it's gonna happen so the market is gonna return the

New York economy is gonna get great Long Island always had a strong housing

market the choice of whether you want to wait it out whether you want to put it

on the market now and get more eyes on your property is totally up to you start

doing some research online learn about the process more and this shell end and

hopefully in a year or so we're going to be looking back on this and saying wow

that was a crazy time but it's over we move on and we appreciate the little

things in life a lot more than we did before

thanks for watching again thumbs up subscribe I appreciate it Mark Schreier

Century 21 American Homes and I'll see you next time

How To Purify Long Island Drinking Water

This video is a must watch for anyone thinking of or currently living on Long Island. An interview with Michael Rosenberg of Long Island Clean Water

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Mark Schreier: Oh, I'm sorry. Are you thinking about buying a house on long Island? Well, what about the drinking water? That's the topic of my next video. An interview with Michael Rosenberg from long Island clean water. Stay tuned. Mark Schreier: Hello everybody. This is Mark Schreier from century 21 American Homes, Real Estate right here in Syosset Long Island. And I want to thank our special guest, Michael Rosenberg from long Island. Clean Water, I believe is the name of the company. And he's going to be discussing a very, very important topic, water and buying a house and what you can do to protect yourself, uh, to be proactive before you make one of the largest purchases, uh, you've probably ever make and what you can do to help alleviate some of the possible issues that might come up. Michael, can you introduce yourself a little more please? Michael Rosenberg: This is Michael Rosenberg, the name of my company as Long Island, Clean Water. Uh, we've been in business for 35 years. Uh, Nassau and Suffolk County, although we do do the city and Westchester and parts of New Jersey. Uh, we've in the last 35 years installed over 10,000 systems, both residential and commercial. Um, and so we're, we're, we're the big player in the market. Mark Schreier: All right. One thing, uh, I mentioned to Michael earlier is that a lot of people are everybody highly recommended and if you're using a mortgage to buy a house, which about 85 to 95% of people in long Island are doing is they need to get a home inspection for yourself to definitely do your due diligence before you spend that large sum of money. But a lot of the home inspections do not consist of water quality, drinking water quality unless you ask for that specifically. So what can a buyer do to be proactive before they make that purchase, even before they make an offer to, uh, test the water quality of their house. Michael Rosenberg: Okay. Uh, it's pretty simple. Um, you could take the time to go down to the water district and get a copy of the water report, or you can use a basic watchdog site that I like, which simplifies the water report. Michael Rosenberg: Uh, that website is E w g.org. When you go to that website, you'll see a lot of different things on there and maybe some popups that you'll get rid of. But what you're going to want to find is the national tap water database. You'll click on that link and then you're going to enter the zip code of the property that you want to find. And when you enter that zip code, you're going to have to know the name of the water company. So where I live, I'm in Suffolk County. Um, not that Suffolk County water is the only one, but I would click on Suffolk County water. If you're in Plainview as an example, you'd click on the Planview water district, when you do that, if you scroll further down, two numbers are gonna pop up. Michael Rosenbeg: Uh, numbers on the left are going to be uh, uh, any contaminants that are in the water that are above a health guidelines. And then the number to the right are going to be contaminants in the water that are within guidelines, but they're there. Mark Schreier: OK, that's great. While we're on, uh, websites, I also am going to share a website that I used about 25 years ago called toxicstargeting.com with one T and I'm going to put links to both these websites on the bottom of this video in the description column. But basically with that website, you just type in your address, your full address of the property you're considering buying or if you're a current homeowner, the property that you are living in. And it will tell you sort of in if free version, by the way, it will give you a map with all the superfund sites, which uh, I'm not going to get into what that is, but basically means if it's a polluted area that's on a registry to be cleaned up and any spills or things that are, have been happening in that area, you could see how close they already are property. Mark Schreier: And that's a very important thing to do. Again, before you do the purchase to see, do you due diligence to know what you're buying with that, let's say. And most of the water, I mean, just like the air we breathe as environmental issues, I don't want people to shy away, you know, to going into a certain property. This is always things that people can do if you notice an issue. But the whole idea is to know what you're buying, to be proactive before you move into your house and know what's out there and what you can do. So in regards to water, let's say you want to make sure the water is as clean as possible. What is some things that Long Island Clean Water offers to people for their home? Michael Rosenberg: Okay, so you know, there are two basic kinds of systems. There's a system that would clean the water for your kitchen, you know, that comes out of the sink. Michael Rosenberg: And we're often able to connect that to your refrigerator. So if you have water coming out of your fridge and ice a one system in the, in the kitchen, uh, can do all that. So for cooking or making coffee or making ice or just drinking water, uh, you're, you're good. Uh, with that, that's a drinking water system. Uh, a top of the line system, the, the best, uh, contaminant removal is called reverse osmosis. Um, that, you know, that's what I would recommend for most places. That way you know, you're stripped of all the contaminants. The second kind of system is a whole house system of which is a bigger, and that attaches to your main, where the water comes in before your laundry and that would pull all the chemicals, uh, right out of before it gets anywhere in your house. Mark Schreier: Great information. A question I'm going to ask because I might be dating myself a little with this question, but there was always a time when people said, if you're a good salesman, you could sell people a bottle of water. Mark Schreier: And people were like, there's no way in the world I'm going to spend money on water. But if you go into any grocery store, you see people walking out with cases in cases of bottled water, with so many different names from generic to top of the line in their mind from all over the world. Now can you tell us a little about, is that better to bring in bottled water in your home? Nevermind. The environmental issue of the plastics. That's a totally another video. Right? MichaelRosenberg: So, you know, if you had told me when I was a kid that people would spend money for water, I would laugh at them. But I, but then again, I'm probably dating myself too. If you told me that everybody would have a cell phone or a car in their phone, I would've laughed at them. Uh, but I think it's a pretty well known, unfortunately on Long Island, uh, that drinking the water out of the tap, um, is not something people readily do. Michael Rosenberg: So it really comes down to, um, really how are, you know, how are you going to get your water right? So, you know, the, the options, you know, there's really a couple of key choices. Um, you can buy bottled water. Uh, the problem with bottled water aside from the environmental impact and the plastics when they heat up, you know, emit carcinogens as well, and then you're carrying, you know, plastic bottles all the time, right? That's one option. You can do a water cooler. Um, but then of course, you know, every time you're cooking, you know, uh, you know, it's a, it's a pain in the butt. Uh, uh, some people would get a Brita filter, uh, that is, uh, you know, a, a pitcher, uh, you know, I, uh, they maybe cost 50 or 75 bucks and you change the pad. Um, that's sort of what I call a level one filter. Michael Rosenberg: It's going to remove sediment, uh, and it's going to remove chlorine. Chlorine is bleach, so it's great, uh, doing nothing as opposed to having a Brita filter. You pull the chlorine out and chlorine has a bad taste as well. Um, the, the next option is to do what's called an inline filter. And that's something that attaches underneath you're saying and it's a canister, uh, and you know, for, you know, seven or eight hundred bucks are you're good to go. Um, and you may or may not be able to attach that to your refrigerator. And then you know, for about a thousand bucks, uh, you can get a complete stripping of all contaminants with reverse osmosis and in most cases be able to attach it to your refrigerator. And that's what I, I recommend that most often. Mark Schreier: Great, What I've done in my house is I have a triple under sink water filter with a second, um, spigot that comes out of my countertop. Mark Schreier: And I've also hooked up a line to my ice maker. So in automatically comes from the same filter instead of just that one cartridge that comes with a lot of, uh, you know, refrigerators with ice makers. So I chose to go that route and I Then I also put in separate Chlorine filters. I guess sort of the Brita but not for showers because the Chlorine coming out of there also. So basically what I think Michael and I are saying, if you're buying a house, do the best you can on your budget to help reduce whatever toxins, whether it be air. Because I know people have HEPA filters, which I have for my AC system to help reduce, you know, that, uh, for people who have allergies and do your best you can for water. And you know, you could also, I believe in full spectrum you should also watch what you're eating because there's a lot of things to, to worry about with the foods and the toxins in foods as well. But trying to stay to the topic of water, I wanna uh, thank uh, Michael from long Island, uh, Clean Water Systems and if you have any questions or comments, please leave them down below. And I will also leave all the links on the bottom for his company as well as the other URLs that we mentioned in the video. Thanks again, Michael. Have any last comments you want to share or are we good? We're good to go. All right.

EWG's Tap Water Database

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Please feel free to contact me with questions Email: Realtor@markschreier.com Text: 516.263.9094 Mark Schreier Licensed Real Estate Agent, With The Heart Of A Teacher Century 21 American Homes Real Estate Syosset, New York Website: http://bit.ly/2xLPW51 Making Dreams Come True One Home At A Time. #Longislandwater #Plainviewwater #markschreierrealtor