Real Estate
Representing the Seller
We can help minimize the stress involved in selling your Home with a number of tools:
A Seller’s “Keys”:
In order to make sure the Seller receives what they want and deserve, our firm address’s three key areas in all of our Real Estate Transactions:
Time, Control, and Communication.
Time:
You’re selling your home in New York and you’ll be out in about a month, right? Maybe. But what happens if the Contract goes bust, or the purchasers need more time with their mortgage? What happens if there are violations on the property that need to be cleared? We go through, in detail, every one of these scenarios to make sure you’re covered in case things go wrong. That’s not just good lawyering; thats a Real Estate lawyers job.
Control:
From keeping the furniture in a sale to making sure that you get the time you need to move out, Control is CRUCIAL when you’re selling a home. There’s many ways we make sure that happens. At the end of the day, it’s your home that is being sold. You should call the shots.
Communication:
You’d want to know how things in your closing, right? It seems a pretty simple concept that some professionals out there may not adhere to. We do. We keep in constant contact with your Real Estate broker. We keep in constant contact with the Title Insurance company. It’s crucial that you have someone doing this to ensure you get your home sold as quickly as possible. It’s also why we have about 15 different ways to get in contact with us….at any time.
Purchasing Real Estate:
Our Firm walks you through the ENTIRE process. From negotiating the Contract of Sale to the time you receive your keys at the closing. Any time you have questions with respect to the Purchase of your home, call us. Every phone call you make will be returned!
What’s more, we are one of the only law firms in New York to use technology to help you know exactly whats happening with your purchase 24 hours a day, seven days a week. When you retain our firm, you receive free access to our website. On the site, you will be able to view the status of the closing. In addition, you (and only you) will be able to view all of the documents surrounding your closing. Your real estate agent will also be to view key information which will allow them to work more efficiently and will save you the hassle of unnecessary phone calls.
What does our firm provide:
1 – Contract Preparation and Negotiation.
We make sure you’re protected financially, and legally in the Contract of Sale. We then sit down with you and determine what you specific items you want placed in the contract. Maybe you want to keep the furniture in the house. Or perhaps you want a specific amount of time before you move in? We ask you plainly what you want or don’t want in the contract. Then we work hard to make sure you asked for is included. At this point our job is only half done. We then make sure that you’ve understood every key term in the contract, and that your satisfied and ready. It is only at that point that we send the Contract back to the seller.
2 – Mortgage Advice:
We live in an unprecedented time when hard working individuals applying for mortgages are finding that what they applied for is not what they received. Foreclosures are at their highest levels now, in part because many purchasers are made to believe they can afford payments that financially and realistically, they cannot. We do our very best to ensure that horrible surprises do not happen to our clients. Our attorneys will explain, in an easy to understand way, you can expect to pay and what you NEED to know about the mortgage you are applying for.
3 – The Inspection:
The last thing that you want when you purchase an existing home is to find out that there are termites or serious structural problems with the home. An Engineers Inspection remedies that and ensures that the major operating systems shall be in working order at the closing of title. An engineer’s inspection goes beyond the basic operating systems and reviews the entire structure. However, it is not a guaranty; it is an informational report to be used by a Purchaser as a guide to make the final decision to purchase a home. Our attorneys use this inspection report and make sure you are aware of what you are purchasing before the date of closing. Again, our goal is to ensure you know exactly what is going on at all times.
4 – Title:
Simply put, we make sure the Title you are receiving is “good and marketable.” In other words, our attorneys review title documents to ensure that the property you are purchasing will not have any judgments, mortgages and other liens which may exist against the property. If these judgments, mortgages, or violations are not cleared by the time of closing, you, as a Purchaser, have the right to cancel the contract and receive your down payment back. When you purchase a property, you deserve to purchase it without any problems surrounding ownership.
5 – The Closing:
The day you’ve been waiting for finally arrives. But not before our attorneys co-ordinate the closing. We contact the bank, the seller, the title company (if required) to make sure everyone agrees upon the place and time. At the closing, the following occur:
* The Purchaser receives title to their home.
* The Bank closes it’s loan and issues its loan proceeds to the Purchaser, who in turn transfers them to the Seller as part of the balance of the purchase price.
* The Title Company guarantees both the Bank and the Purchaser that the Purchaser is obtaining good and marketable title
* You receive the keys to your home.
6 – The Closing Statement:
Our work isn’t done even after you’ve moved into your new house. After the closing, our office will send you a Closing Statement from detailing all of the financial aspects of the closing and copies of the documents executed at the closing. This not only provides you with important records, but it provides your accountant easily accessible numbers in preparing your taxes.
We proudly serve the following communities in Brooklyn for Real Estate Closings: Park Slope , Brooklyn Heights , Cobble Hill , Boerum Hill , Ditmas , Clinton Hill , Windor Terrace , Kensington , Red Hook, Crown Heights Real Estate, Bedford Stuvesant , Greenpoint , Williamsburg Real Estate, Midwood , Sunset Park , Manhattan Beach , Sheepshead Bay
