How To Avoid Real Estate Cyber Scams

How to avoid real estate cyber scams. With the current Coronavirus Pandemic realtors are working remotely from home more now than ever before. Buyers and sellers are able to sign listing contracts and buyer offer documents from their smart phone or computer without ever meeting the realtor in person. Cyber hackers are hoping to take advantage of this new digital business model to line their pockets. In this video I will share some basic DYI tips on how to protect your computer and digital transactions from being hacked. ✔Free Home Buyers or Sellers Guide: http://freeebook1.toplirealtor.com/buyer/sellerguide

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you can avoid real estate cyber scams that's the topic of my next video how

you can avoid real estate cyber scams that's the topic of today's video hello

everybody my name is Mark Schreier and I'm a licensed sales associate with

century 21 American homes real estate right here on Long Island New York we

are in week 3 or 4 of the lockdown every day seems to be blending together most

people are working from home that are in essential services and Realtors are

doing most of their transactions virtually I have the ability to sell a

house with East signatures for both buyers and sellers online and with that

opens a palapa a lot of opportunity for scammers trying to hack into the real

estate process I'm going to share with you four tips that you can use today to

try to safeguard yourself from these particular hacks tip number one

definitely only use secured email if you're not sure what secure email is

there should be an HTTPS in the URL address up on the top the S stands for

secure and/or a padlock up on the top left of your screen when you're looking

at it that stands for secured even if the website is secure and this is tip

number 2 or the email is secured never send secure information about yourself

through an email what do I mean by that don't send your social security numbers

don't send passwords to sensitive websites don't send bank account or

routing numbers even if it is a secured site the next thing that you need to

know or tip number 3 don't open email some people you don't know who they are

a lot of us are getting tons of emails from people promising us the world don't

open them send them right to your spam folder if it's an email from a friend or

relative but it's something looks unusual about and call them text them

ask them confirm if they sent the email if they did great if they didn't send it

on to your spam folder and tip number 4 don't use unsecured Wi-Fi hopefully in a

couple of weeks we'll be back to business almost as usual going into

coffee shops and things of that nature naturally with a bubble on our head but

going into a coffee shop and drinking with a straw and with that you are hat

you have access to unsecured Wi-Fi by the fact that it's unsecured it gives

whoever might be hacking the ability to get into your computer so make sure you

only use secured Wi-Fi that is password and encrypted Wi-Fi

I hope these four tips were helpful if they were definitely give me a thumbs up

don't forget to subscribe to the channel and if anybody here is looking to buy or

sell a house when the lockdown is over I'm offering a free e-book on buying and

selling so click the link down below and I'll send that right out to you

stay safe and I'll see you on the next video

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.

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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