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Thursday, August 7, 2008
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
"HASSLE-FREE HOMEBUYING 101" Mark Schreier LSA, Century 21 Prevete Real Estate (516)263-9094
Perhaps you’d like to take advantage of today’s great buyer’s market in housing but feel a little intimidated by everything that’s involved.
You know the routine: finding the right locale and the right house; negotiating an agreement; putting together a down payment; and selecting the best mortgage available.
There are two things you can do to make every step run smoothly. The first is to select a really professional agent who knows the real estate business, knows your local market, has both a solid reputation for integrity and a solid record of success, and clearly is eager to respond to your needs.
The second is to make your agent your teammate in the literal sense of the word, using teamwork to be sure that the house you ultimately buy is the house you’ve always wanted.
Making your agent your teammate requires choosing an agent you feel able to trust both as a person and as a professional. And that’s no small matter. In real estate as in all areas of business – as in all aspects of life, actually – trust can make all the difference in the world.
True teamwork is nearly impossible to achieve unless you stick with one agent throughout the buying process. Buy all means you should shop around – and shop around carefully – when you’re still deciding which agent to work with. Once you’ve made that decision, however, don’t reverse it unless (and this rarely happens to people who are careful in the first place) something specific happens to make it clear that your choice was unwise.
Teammate status is all the motivation a first-rate agent needs to go all-out in finding houses that suit your needs. And if you’re concerned about what it is you’re looking for and how much house you think you can afford, your agent can save you huge amounts to time and effort.
If you’re not sure how much you can afford, be candid with your agent about that, too. He or she can provide you with some helpful preliminary guidelines and can put you in touch with mortgage lenders who know how to get you focused on an appropriate price range.
It’s always a good idea, as you look at listed homes, to give your agent a lot of feedback on what you’ve seen. Good feedback will refine and sharpen the agent’s understanding of your likes and dislikes, which in turn will make it easier to find the house of your dreams.
The ultimate payoff, once again, is that you get to your goal more quickly, expending less time and less effort along the way.
Anyone who have ever done it this way will assure you of one thing: it pays off.
LET ME HELP YOUR TEAM MAKE IT TO THE TOP!!
Call Today!!
Mark Schreier
Licensed Sales Person
(516)263-9094
You know the routine: finding the right locale and the right house; negotiating an agreement; putting together a down payment; and selecting the best mortgage available.
There are two things you can do to make every step run smoothly. The first is to select a really professional agent who knows the real estate business, knows your local market, has both a solid reputation for integrity and a solid record of success, and clearly is eager to respond to your needs.
The second is to make your agent your teammate in the literal sense of the word, using teamwork to be sure that the house you ultimately buy is the house you’ve always wanted.
Making your agent your teammate requires choosing an agent you feel able to trust both as a person and as a professional. And that’s no small matter. In real estate as in all areas of business – as in all aspects of life, actually – trust can make all the difference in the world.
True teamwork is nearly impossible to achieve unless you stick with one agent throughout the buying process. Buy all means you should shop around – and shop around carefully – when you’re still deciding which agent to work with. Once you’ve made that decision, however, don’t reverse it unless (and this rarely happens to people who are careful in the first place) something specific happens to make it clear that your choice was unwise.
Teammate status is all the motivation a first-rate agent needs to go all-out in finding houses that suit your needs. And if you’re concerned about what it is you’re looking for and how much house you think you can afford, your agent can save you huge amounts to time and effort.
If you’re not sure how much you can afford, be candid with your agent about that, too. He or she can provide you with some helpful preliminary guidelines and can put you in touch with mortgage lenders who know how to get you focused on an appropriate price range.
It’s always a good idea, as you look at listed homes, to give your agent a lot of feedback on what you’ve seen. Good feedback will refine and sharpen the agent’s understanding of your likes and dislikes, which in turn will make it easier to find the house of your dreams.
The ultimate payoff, once again, is that you get to your goal more quickly, expending less time and less effort along the way.
Anyone who have ever done it this way will assure you of one thing: it pays off.
LET ME HELP YOUR TEAM MAKE IT TO THE TOP!!
Call Today!!
Mark Schreier
Licensed Sales Person
(516)263-9094
The Plainview Housing Market Never Sleeps. **20 Houses Transfered Ownership This July 2008** Looking To Sell ? Call Me Today!!
Address ,Selling Price, Style
1) 17 Charlotte Pl $420,250 Ranch
2) 10 Sydney St $445,000 Exp Ranch
3) 6 Sydney St $430,000 Ranch
4) 39 Spector Ln $439,000 Split
5) 26 Garnet Ln $455,000 Split
6) 10 David Rd $463,000 Cape
7) 30 Knowles St $460,000 Split
8) 30 Burton Ave $465,000 Split
9) 26 Edi Ct $475,000 Exp Ranch
10) 1 Sylvia Rd $485,000 Split
11) 89 Morton Blvd $509,000 Ranch
12) 8 John St $518,000 Hi Ranch
13) 37 Brook Path $518,000 Split
14) 17 Radnor Rd $490,000 Split
15) 31 Mitchell Ave $530,000 Exp Ranch
16) 86 Nassau Ave $528,000 Split
17) 8 Nora Ln $545,000 Exp Ranch
18) 19 Elaine Pl $615,000 Split
19) 64 Hope Dr $850,000 Colonial
20) 4 Colonial Gat $867,500 Exp Ranch
CONTACT ME TODAY TO FIND OUT WHAT YOUR HOME IS WORTH!!
Mark Schreier Licensed Sales Person Century 21 Prevete Real estate (516)263-9094
or Log onto www.TopPlainviewRealtor.com
1) 17 Charlotte Pl $420,250 Ranch
2) 10 Sydney St $445,000 Exp Ranch
3) 6 Sydney St $430,000 Ranch
4) 39 Spector Ln $439,000 Split
5) 26 Garnet Ln $455,000 Split
6) 10 David Rd $463,000 Cape
7) 30 Knowles St $460,000 Split
8) 30 Burton Ave $465,000 Split
9) 26 Edi Ct $475,000 Exp Ranch
10) 1 Sylvia Rd $485,000 Split
11) 89 Morton Blvd $509,000 Ranch
12) 8 John St $518,000 Hi Ranch
13) 37 Brook Path $518,000 Split
14) 17 Radnor Rd $490,000 Split
15) 31 Mitchell Ave $530,000 Exp Ranch
16) 86 Nassau Ave $528,000 Split
17) 8 Nora Ln $545,000 Exp Ranch
18) 19 Elaine Pl $615,000 Split
19) 64 Hope Dr $850,000 Colonial
20) 4 Colonial Gat $867,500 Exp Ranch
CONTACT ME TODAY TO FIND OUT WHAT YOUR HOME IS WORTH!!
Mark Schreier Licensed Sales Person Century 21 Prevete Real estate (516)263-9094
or Log onto www.TopPlainviewRealtor.com
Thursday, July 3, 2008
HOME SALES FOR "JUNE 08"
18 HOMES CLOSED IN PLAINVIEW FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE
1) 17 Charlotte Pl $420,250 Ranch
2) 10 Sydney St $445,000 Exp Ranch
3) 6 Sydney St $430,000 Ranch
4) 39 Spector Ln $439,000 Split
5) 10 David Rd $463,000 Cape
6) 30 Knowles St $460,000 Split
7 )26 Edi Ct $475,000 Exp Ranch
8 )1 Sylvia Rd 11803 $485,000 Split
9 )89 Morton Blvd $509,000 Ranch
10) 8 John St Plainview $518,000 Hi Ranch
11) 37 Brook Path $518,000 Split
12) 17 Radnor Rd $490,000 Split
13) 31 Mitchell Ave $530,000 Exp Ranch
14) 86 Nassau Ave $528,000 Split
15) 8 Nora Ln $545,000 Exp Ranch
16) 19 Elaine Pl $615,000 Split
17) 64 Hope Dr $850,000 Colonial
18) 4 Colonial Gat $867,500 Exp Ranch
1) 17 Charlotte Pl $420,250 Ranch
2) 10 Sydney St $445,000 Exp Ranch
3) 6 Sydney St $430,000 Ranch
4) 39 Spector Ln $439,000 Split
5) 10 David Rd $463,000 Cape
6) 30 Knowles St $460,000 Split
7 )26 Edi Ct $475,000 Exp Ranch
8 )1 Sylvia Rd 11803 $485,000 Split
9 )89 Morton Blvd $509,000 Ranch
10) 8 John St Plainview $518,000 Hi Ranch
11) 37 Brook Path $518,000 Split
12) 17 Radnor Rd $490,000 Split
13) 31 Mitchell Ave $530,000 Exp Ranch
14) 86 Nassau Ave $528,000 Split
15) 8 Nora Ln $545,000 Exp Ranch
16) 19 Elaine Pl $615,000 Split
17) 64 Hope Dr $850,000 Colonial
18) 4 Colonial Gat $867,500 Exp Ranch
Friday, June 13, 2008
The Smart Way To Look At Home Improvements By: Mark Schreier LSA, (516)263-9094
What home improvements really pay off when the time comes to sell your house?
That’s an important question for any homeowner contemplating moving or remodeling. And the only possible answer is a somewhat complicated one.
That answer starts with the fact that really major improvements – room additions, total replacements of kitchens and baths, etc., -- rarely pay off fully in the near term. It ends with the fact that small and relatively inexpensive changes can pay off in a big way in making your home attractive to buyers if your decision is to move now.
It’s a simple fact, consistently confirmed across America over a very long period of time, that even the most appropriate major improvements are unlikely to return their full cost if a house is sold within two or three years.
Does that mean that major home improvements are always a bad idea? Absolutely not. It does mean, though, that if your present house falls seriously short of meeting your family’s needs you need to think twice – and think carefully – before deciding to undertake a major renovation. Viewed strictly in investment terms, major improvements rarely make as much sense as selling your present home and buying one that’s carefully selected to provide you with what you want.
Even if you have a special and strong attachment to the house you’re in and feel certain that you could be happy in it for a long time if only it had more bedrooms and baths, for example, there are a few basic rules that you ought to keep in mind.
Probably the most basic rule of all, in this regard, is the one that says you should never –unless you absolutely don’t care at all about eventual resale value – improve a house to the point where its desired sales price would be more than 20 percent higher than the most expensive of the other houses in the immediate neighborhood.
Try to raise the value of your house too high, that is, and surrounding properties will pull it down.
Here are some other rules worth remembering:
Never rearrange the interior of your house in a way that reduces the total number of bedrooms to less than three.
Never add a third bathroom to a two-bath house unless you don’t care about ever recouping your investment.
Swimming pools rarely return what you spend to install them. Ditto for sun rooms – and finished basements.
If you decide to do what’s usually the smart thing and move rather than improve, it’s often the smaller, relatively inexpensive improvements that turn out to be most worth doing.
The cost of replacing a discolored toilet bowl, making sure all the windows work or getting rid of dead trees and shrubs in trivial compared with adding a bathroom, but such things can have a big and very positive impact on prospective buyers. A good broker can help you decide which expenditures make sense and which don’t, and can save you a lot of money in the process.
For more information on this topic call me (Mark Schreier, LSA) 516 263-9094
That’s an important question for any homeowner contemplating moving or remodeling. And the only possible answer is a somewhat complicated one.
That answer starts with the fact that really major improvements – room additions, total replacements of kitchens and baths, etc., -- rarely pay off fully in the near term. It ends with the fact that small and relatively inexpensive changes can pay off in a big way in making your home attractive to buyers if your decision is to move now.
It’s a simple fact, consistently confirmed across America over a very long period of time, that even the most appropriate major improvements are unlikely to return their full cost if a house is sold within two or three years.
Does that mean that major home improvements are always a bad idea? Absolutely not. It does mean, though, that if your present house falls seriously short of meeting your family’s needs you need to think twice – and think carefully – before deciding to undertake a major renovation. Viewed strictly in investment terms, major improvements rarely make as much sense as selling your present home and buying one that’s carefully selected to provide you with what you want.
Even if you have a special and strong attachment to the house you’re in and feel certain that you could be happy in it for a long time if only it had more bedrooms and baths, for example, there are a few basic rules that you ought to keep in mind.
Probably the most basic rule of all, in this regard, is the one that says you should never –unless you absolutely don’t care at all about eventual resale value – improve a house to the point where its desired sales price would be more than 20 percent higher than the most expensive of the other houses in the immediate neighborhood.
Try to raise the value of your house too high, that is, and surrounding properties will pull it down.
Here are some other rules worth remembering:
Never rearrange the interior of your house in a way that reduces the total number of bedrooms to less than three.
Never add a third bathroom to a two-bath house unless you don’t care about ever recouping your investment.
Swimming pools rarely return what you spend to install them. Ditto for sun rooms – and finished basements.
If you decide to do what’s usually the smart thing and move rather than improve, it’s often the smaller, relatively inexpensive improvements that turn out to be most worth doing.
The cost of replacing a discolored toilet bowl, making sure all the windows work or getting rid of dead trees and shrubs in trivial compared with adding a bathroom, but such things can have a big and very positive impact on prospective buyers. A good broker can help you decide which expenditures make sense and which don’t, and can save you a lot of money in the process.
For more information on this topic call me (Mark Schreier, LSA) 516 263-9094
Monday, June 9, 2008
FREE TIPS ON SELLING AND BUYING A HOME
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Mark Schreier
LSA Century 21 Prevete Real Estate
(516)263-9094
Mark Schreier
LSA Century 21 Prevete Real Estate
(516)263-9094
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Plainview Real Estate Sales For May "08"
Houses are selling in Plainview. There were 12 closings for the month of May.
Address, Style, Sold Price
15 Island St. Ranch $310,000
18 Gerhard Rd. Ranch $420,000
165 Floral Ave. Cape $387,500
28 Ontario Ave. Cape $438,000
16 Janet Dr. Ranch $459,000
22 Ontario Ave. Cape $500,000
7 Ruby Ln. Split $495,000
53 Stewart St. Split $515,500
64 Sunrise St. Split $545,000
1 Ruth Split $555,000
126 Lincoln East Rd. Split $565.000
24 Hugh Ridge Rd. Ranch $695,000
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