Live in California, Florida, or anywhere else, but own a property in Monroe 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 Rochester.
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 Monroe 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 victorian property Tony has bought in Rochester.
Monroe County (Rochester) housing is bungalows, four-squares, and brick colonials from 1900-1940. Many inherited properties haven't been updated in decades.
Monroe County tax rates are 2.5-3.5% of assessed value, among the highest in upstate NY.
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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 Monroe 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.
Rochester bungalows and four-squares from the early 1900s often need full systems updates. Tony buys them anyway, in any condition. The stock is 1890–1930 frame single- and two-family houses — American Foursquares and Colonial Revivals in the 19th Ward and off Park and East Avenues, bungalows in Beechwood and North Winton Village, lake cottages in Charlotte, 1950s capes in Northland and Maplewood, and Federal and Greek Revival houses in Corn Hill. The Crescent neighborhoods of the northeast and northwest have high vacancy and many city-owned parcels.
Rochester sellers call Tony with a 19th Ward foursquare that a parent bought in 1965 and never updated, an estate in Monroe County Surrogate's Court, and heirs in Atlanta and Los Angeles who don't want a winter of showings. Others own a two-family in Beechwood or the northeast with a tenant who stopped paying, a City of Rochester certificate-of-occupancy inspection they failed, and property taxes headed for the City's tax-foreclosure auction. Rochester's lead-paint ordinance makes renting an old house a real obligation, and some small landlords are simply done. Tony buys the foursquare with the belongings, the two-family occupied, and the house on the auction list — one number on the phone, closing on your date.
Rochester sellers pay the 0.4% New York State transfer tax; Tony nets it into his offer. Monroe County closings run on an updated abstract of title, deeds record with the Monroe County Clerk downtown, and estates go through Monroe County Surrogate's Court in the Hall of Justice. The City of Rochester requires a Certificate of Occupancy inspection for rental properties, including lead-paint checks under the city's lead ordinance, and holds an annual tax-foreclosure auction for delinquent city taxes — a cash closing that pays the arrears stops it. No lender means no appraisal on a house that hasn't been updated since the 1960s.
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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Drop your number and Tony reaches out about your Rochester property within an hour.
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 Rochester 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 Rochester 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.
All of Rochester — ZIPs 14605 through 14621. Foursquares in the 19th Ward, houses off Park and East Avenues, bungalows in Beechwood and North Winton Village, cottages in Charlotte, capes in Northland and Maplewood, and vacant or occupied houses anywhere in the Crescent. One call with the address gets you a number.
Yes, occupied or empty. A failed C-of-O inspection, lead-paint findings under Rochester's lead ordinance, and open code violations all transfer to Tony at closing. You don't need to abate, repair, or re-inspect before selling — that's his job after he owns it. Tell him what the inspector cited, and he gives you one number.
Usually, if the auction hasn't happened. Tony's title company orders the payoff for city and county taxes, the arrears are paid from the proceeds at closing, and a cash closing in about a week typically beats the sale date. Whatever equity is left goes to you instead of being wiped out at the auction. Call the day you get the notice.
Once Monroe County Surrogate's Court issues letters, Tony signs a contract with the executor or administrator; your sister signs the deed and closing papers with a California notary and her share is wired. Tony buys the house with the furniture and belongings still in it, so neither of you has to spend weekends clearing it out or driving to Rochester.
Monroe County property, you're not local? 1-908-768-4759. Tony closes from anywhere.
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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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