Live in California, Florida, or anywhere else, but own a property in Kings County? Tony makes a cash offer over the phone and closes the entire New York transaction remotely. You sign with a notary in your home state and never set foot in Canarsie.
Owning a property thousands of miles away wears on you. Property taxes you can't easily pay. Code letters from a town you don't visit. Tenants or family members or strangers sending updates that don't add up. The flight back to fix one thing turns into three flights. Tony has closed dozens of remote sales for owners living out of state. You don't fly back. Tony handles everything from this end.
Tony's standard out-of-state closing process for Kings County properties: cash offer call (you stay where you are), title work and contract signing via remote notary in your home state, wire-transfer of proceeds to your home-state bank account. Total time: 7-14 days from first call.
The kind of row house property Tony has bought in Canarsie.
Kings County (Brooklyn) is brownstones, multi-families, and pre-war apartment stock. Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Flatbush, Bushwick, East New York all have heavy inherited-property volume.
NYC property taxes use Class 1 (1-3 family) assessment that lags market value significantly. Effective rates vary by class but typically 0.8-1.5%.
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Tell Tony where the house is and what shape it's in. Get a cash number on the same call. Pick a closing date.
7 days a week, 8 AM to 9 PM Eastern.
Carrying costs on a remote Kings County property add up quickly: property taxes ($4K-$15K/year typical), vacant-home insurance (50-100% premium over occupied), occasional emergency maintenance, and the time/cost of the trips back you have to make. A remote close to Tony stops the meter the day the deed transfers.
Canarsie is almost entirely attached and semi-detached brick houses from the 1920s through the 1950s — one- and two-families on 20- to 25-foot lots with a driveway and a finished basement — plus detached capes and ranches near the water and a few six-story co-ops along Seaview Avenue. Homeownership is high and heavily Caribbean-American, and many houses have been in one family since the 1970s. Blocks south of Flatlands Avenue toward the Belt Parkway took serious flooding in Sandy.
Canarsie sellers who reach Tony are often heirs to a semi-detached brick that Mom and Dad bought in 1975, still in their names, with a basement apartment that was never legal and a Build It Back file from Sandy that never quite closed. Some owners are retiring to Florida or back to the islands and don't want to manage a rental from 1,500 miles away. Others are behind on property taxes after a job loss and got a lien-sale notice from the City. Tony buys the house occupied or empty, with the belongings, with the flood history, and with the taxes owed — one number on the phone, closing when you choose.
Canarsie sellers pay the NYC RPTT (1% up to $500,000, 1.425% above) and the 0.4% state transfer tax; Tony nets those out in his offer. Much of Canarsie south of Flatlands Avenue is in a FEMA flood zone, which means a mortgage buyer must carry flood insurance and a lender may demand an elevation certificate — Tony pays cash and needs neither. Basement apartments show up as certificate-of-occupancy mismatches; they don't slow a cash closing.
Every cash buyer, Tony included, starts from the same three numbers: what the house would sell for fully renovated, what it costs to get it there, and how long that takes. The offer is that finished value minus the repairs, minus the buyer's resale costs and margin. In practice that lands most cash offers somewhere around 70–85% of the renovated value, less repairs. The honest comparison is not against a renovated house's list price — it is against what you would actually net from a NY listing after commission, repairs, and months of carrying costs.
| Line item | List with an agent | Sell to Tony |
|---|---|---|
| What the house would sell for fully renovated | $400,000 | $400,000 |
| Repairs a retail buyer's lender will demand | − $45,000 | Tony's problem |
| Agent commission (5–6%) | − $20,000 to $24,000 | $0 |
| Inspection credits, seller closing costs, concessions | − $8,000 to $12,000 | $0 |
| Taxes, insurance, mortgage, utilities while you wait (3–6 months) | − $9,000 to $15,000 | $0 |
| Time to cash in hand | 4 to 7 months | 7 to 14 days |
| What you actually walk away with | ≈ $305,000 to $318,000 | Tony's number, in full, on your date |
Whether Tony's number beats that listing net depends on the house. On a move-in-ready home in a hot NYmarket it usually will not, and Tony will tell you to list. On a house that needs work, has tenants, sits in an estate, or carries violations — the houses retail buyers cannot finance — it is often close, and the seven-day timeline is the difference. Call 1-908-768-4759, get the number, and compare it yourself.
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Yes. Remote notarization is fully recognized in NJ and NY. You sign with a notary in your home state, the documents are video-witnessed by a remote notary, and the deed records normally.
Wire transfer to your home-state bank account on the closing date. Same day the deed records, the funds hit.
That's most of Tony's out-of-state purchases. Tony's offer is based on public records, recent Canarsie comps, and your description. Whatever condition the property is in, the offer accounts for it.
Yes. POA documents are accepted at closing. Many out-of-state Canarsie sellers have a family member or attorney sign as POA for convenience.
Tony's title company pays them at closing from the proceeds. Same with code violations, water/sewer arrears, or any other municipal liens.
Yes. Tony buys Canarsie houses with Sandy damage that was patched but never finished, with an open Build It Back or SBA history, and with mold in the basement. He prices the repairs honestly and doesn't require an elevation certificate or flood insurance because there's no bank. Tell him what was done and what wasn't, and he'll give you a number.
Yes, all of ZIP 11236 — the attached bricks off Rockaway Parkway and Avenue L, the semi-detached houses around Canarsie Park, the waterfront blocks near Seaview Avenue and the Pier, and the co-ops by the basin. Flood zone or not, one call with the address gets you a number.
You can sell before the lien is sold, or after — either way the arrears get paid off from the proceeds at closing. If the lien has already gone to the City's lien trust, the title company gets a payoff that includes the interest and fees, and Tony's offer accounts for it. Selling to Tony stops the clock without you having to come up with the cash first.
Yes. Once Kings County Surrogate's Court issues letters to an executor or administrator, Tony's title company arranges signings by mail, at a notary in Florida, or at a U.S. embassy or consulate abroad, and wires each heir's share. Nobody has to fly to Brooklyn to clean out the house — Tony buys it with everything in it.
Live out of state and need to sell a Canarsie property? Call Tony at 1-908-768-4759. Cash, remote, 7 days.
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Tell Tony where the house is and what shape it's in. Get a cash number on the same call. Pick a closing date.
7 days a week, 8 AM to 9 PM Eastern.
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