First step is to put the legal names of all owners. There are more than one
please remember use a calm as and separate again here. If there are two
owners, please put email addresses for both. If you only put one, we will assume
that all owners will aside from the same email address property types select
which one it is calm down calm let's calm down how nice I am listing price do
something simple this we can leave bike. If you do know it you can put it as well
square footage. This you can leave blank if you do know it you should turn to put
it here. Again this is optional but it is helpful especially for a condo or co-op
apartment this goes into the broker database so it is typically not display
of a public facing search websites for this section this only shows up in the
broker database we recommend putting something especially if you have a
different buzzer number than apartment number anything that might think it
complex or difficult to access your apartment.
This part is important to remember that the property description can only
include information strictly about the property. It cannot include any sort of
self emotional language such as email addresses phone numbers anything or even
website addresses anything that might be some promotional have contact
information it's not allowed by both the broker databases nor many websites as
well public search and websites and also keep in mind that New York has some of
the strictest fair housing laws in the country it is extremely strict
especially in New York City so we cannot include any information that might be
construed as discriminatory such as you can say this isn't a good school zone
and so for PS 14 it's family-friendly it skin friendly it's Christian friendly.
Whatever it might be New York City is extremely strict so we
cannot include it and it is actually automatically removed as well so please
keep that in mind. We recommend writing two paragraphs max one paragraph is fine
as well keep it short concise. First paragraph
should be about the apartment the second paragraph that you choose to have the
second paragraph should be about the coding for the unit amenities these are
a three you pre-populated fields that are available in the broken database
that can be syndicated out. Please keep in mind that we cannot offer custom
amenities these are the few choices that we have and we cannot guarantee that
they won't even show up on third-party websites because we cannot determine or
control what third-party websites do. Once they receive an interview it's up
to them how they display their data they may have pre-populated data for
buildings which is often the case it's not something that we can have any say
or influence over or edit so the best we can do is to choose to send out some of
these pre-selected ones and hope that third-party websites will reflect them.
So the most common once our laundry unit so there's a washer and dryer in the
unit is it recently renovated, dishwasher perhaps has
outdoor space because it has a patio hardwood floors so these are some the
most common ones interview does it have an unrestricted open view.
Perhaps some of these are other choices that are pre-populated unit exposure
which direction do the windows face is it south north whatever it is just like
that you can select North one in the condition. Please give a honest
assessment of the units condition it's a good barrack these again are
pre-populated choices please select one open house to start you can always add
additional open houses later using our listing update form and the sellers many
barns and their listing update but it's important to just list one for now to
not overwhelm wires. If you want to choose to have one at all this is
Saturday remember this is Sunday so the first day of the week starts on one name
similar to Sunday's are quite popular Saturdays in popular to 12 to 4 p.m. on
the most common times usually two hours so this part is important you absolutely
want to have photos and a floor plan when you upload a listing I in fact many
MLS systems will not allow upload without any sort of photos or a floor
plan so if you already have professional photos taken and a floor plan which you
have ownership rights to congratulations and it's important to confirm that as
well use you can't simply take photos from the internet or from a previous
listening by another broker and just give them to us that is an easy way to
get sued for copyright infringement virtually you will be liable for so
please make sure you either have ownership the photos or if you're a New
York City you can actually order them at the end of this form directly from us. So
if you don't have photos on the floor plan yet, just leave it blank. If you do
have it somewhere, make sure that you give us a link for example whether it's
Dropbox, Google Drive whatever storage.
A cloud storage service use just make sure that there is no password required
for our support team to access so make sure it is unrestricted that's just an
example yeah. This is completely up to you as you know the Commission you
typically hear about in the news is 6% that split 50-50 between a buyer's agent
and a seller's agent if the if the some if the fire does not have an agent to
complete the listing agent keeps all 6% but regardless because it's led equally
fire engines simply expect 3%. Bow in the city just from experience and a surveys
of our buyer of our partner brokers we've never gotten pushback or our
partner burgers on the photographer pushback at two and a half percent of a
cobra to buyers agents. Remember you do want to something offer something market
rate to buyer agents because there are 50,000 agents in New York City. They're
all running around offering us free service so you certainly want to engage
them and offer them something market rate so your listing will be competitive
with other listings and that is the point of this service to begin with so
that you can contractually offer a Cobra or an offer of commission to fires
agents through the broker database so again this is a highly personal choice.
It is up to you minimum down payment permitted by buildings so a lot of
condos and co-ops oh do not vote in this world require a minimum amount of down
payment or in other words a maximum amount of financing so you know a lot of
buildings were required 20% down some corners might require 10% down you know.
Obviously if you are listing a multi-family or a townhouse just enter 0.
If it's not applicable so let's put hypothetically 10% down for this voting
coops might require more like 25% now remember for for taxes it's
important because in York City condos will have taxes and common
charges listed separately the co-ops will have everything rolled into just
maintenance and the maintenance for our co-op will include both the equivalent
of common charges and taxes so because this is a condo is listed separately
just make something up all charges are five hundred this is not
applicable because coops and you can leave this blank if this was it go up if
you know this internet here so perhaps fifty percent of the maintenance is
tax-deductible this is something that your the coop will be able to tell you.
Just so you know, if you can't find it this is typically informed 1098 it sent
by your co-op that's what a call tax deduction letter it tells you how much
of your maintenance is tax deductible let's go back flip tax again enter zero
is not applicable but a lot of coops will have them usually one two percent.
Condos usually don't that they're starting to be more in that role or try
to have flip taxes into new phenomenon so for this condo let's assume it's zero.
This is again only for coops so call to have a number of shares owned for condos
existing listing so if you have an existing for sale by owner listing
please provide the URL this will help us as well because perhaps we can download
photos from there cetera and take a look at the existing information if I have
it's important to remove all existing Fizbo listings before you submit your
listing with us because if you don't and our team starts the upload and
syndication process there will be syndication errors override errors. It's
simply something you don't want and furthermore it will be confusing to
buyer agents. If you have an existing four so very realistic you must remember
that the point of distance thing is it looks just like a traditional listing
the Cobra assume you offer circle broke you're paired with out of our
traditional partner brokerages. It looks like just any other traditional broke
listening. So you certainly don't want to confuse people by how they'll also for
self alder listing. If you're looking to buy something we would love to hear it.
We can certainly help you on the buy side as well as our partner brokers can
help offer your device, find you a new home and also give you a buyer closing
credit. So essentially a rebate of part of buyer agents Commission so after
yourself your living opportunity home sort of help you with vacuum tax
on the Commission and it's a substantial savings against closing costs or on
whichever else choose to use it for this. Last part, we apologize if it does sound
a bit harsh but it is necessary that we have some expectation setting. Please
remember that you are paying essentially 0% and Commission versus 6% of
commission that's quite a substantial difference in New York City where the
average home sounds for two million dollars. So please keep in mind that
because this is a essentially the free service. We really need to make sure that
the customers who sign up for this have the right expectations in mind there is
no phone or email support from either house and a lot of partner brokers. You
know customers are expected to to actually read and understand what the
product is before signing up and to use the mystic update for all requests and
it's and such so please please make sure you understand what the service is
before you sign up and if you don't after signing up but before the upload
we're always happy to give you a full refund as well. So please make sure you
understand and only sign up and select yes. If you have read everything at all
they understand it and after young from this please select
a product and you can already you can pay so there are a few options you can
learn more here on the shop but essentially what this is is this is
basic listing this comes so that's the report this if you add pro photos it
comes with professional photos so our professional photo package you can find
out more on the shop and this comes with both the professional photos and a floor
plan you can also do this ultimate package which comes with the book the
listing professional photos the floor plan and a broker consulting package. If
you have gone here and paid directly already without somebody of your listing
details you can always select our unpaid and then to submit only your listing
details. If at any time for example you need to come back to this form later
perhaps because you don't know what the maintenance is and you want to save it I
simply hit save and continue. Later this will give you a link that you can come
back to it will actually email you link that can come back to within 30 days I
believe. Please remember that once you hit submit
your listing details and you complete your payment on the next page your and
after that you will receive a listing agreement once you assign the agreement
your listing will be uploaded within 2 business days. Please keep in mind that
if you want to submit all of your information now and have your listing
uploaded at a future date, this is not something that we can do and it does
generate confusion with our support team so we ask that you only submit your
listing detail. Once you are ready to list so you can always hit save and
continue later and to submit your listing when you are actually ready to
list or simply come back to this forum once you wish to actually list your
property. After all of this is done simply hit submit your listening and
payment details and go to the next page to complete your check out. At the moment
we use PayPal so on the next page it will take you to PayPal.
If you have an account, you can log in you don't necessarily have to use PayPal
because you can just scroll down a little bit further in the says pay with
a debit or credit card. This next page is self-explanatory. We won't go through it
with you but essentially put in your information hit pay now after this is
done you will be taken to the listing confirmation page and you will again be
notified that your you will receive a listing agreement a flat fee a listing
agreement for a signature during business hours and once that is signed
it will be uploaded within two businesses and here's some additional
information for you in case you're buying after you're selling. We also
offer a great full-service listing option for a 1% listing fee to the
sellers broker. So this is another option to consider. If you are too busy to fill
out all of your listing details, you're too busy to show your home yourself we
certainly can have one of our partner brokers I handle everything for you for
a much reduced fee. Anyway we hope you found this tutorial useful and we hope
to hear from you. Thank you so much!