Live in California, Florida, or anywhere else, but own a property in Queens 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 Far Rockaway.
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 Queens 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 two family property Tony has bought in Far Rockaway.
Queens County has detached single-families and two-families across south Queens (Jamaica, Hollis, St. Albans, Cambria Heights, Laurelton, Rosedale). Many are inherited from grandparents who immigrated in the 1950s-70s.
Queens NYC Class 1 rates apply; effective rates are 0.7-1.4% on actual market value due to assessment caps.
§·· / Schedule
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.
Common situations Tony handles for out-of-state owners with Far Rockaway properties: an inherited family home thousands of miles from where the heir now lives, a former primary residence after a job relocation, a rental property the owner has been managing remotely for years and is done with, a divorce sale where one spouse already moved out of state, and an investment property the owner has never lived in.
Far Rockaway is detached frame one- and two-families and 1920s bungalows in Edgemere and Arverne, larger houses and an Orthodox Jewish community around Central Avenue and Bayswater, six-story buildings and NYCHA's Redfern and Ocean Bay developments, and the post-2000 Arverne by the Sea townhouses. Nearly all of it is within a FEMA flood zone, and much of it was under water in Sandy in 2012; houses that were raised or rebuilt sit next to ones that were only patched.
Far Rockaway owners call Tony with houses that Sandy never really let go of: a bungalow in Edgemere that was gutted, dried out, and left; a two-family in Arverne with a Build It Back elevation that was started and abandoned; a parent's house in Bayswater whose flood insurance premium now costs more than the taxes. Some are heirs to a frame house in Wavecrest with a tenant paying nothing and a City lien-sale notice on the mailbox. Tony buys them as-is, flood zone and all, with no elevation certificate and no insurance requirement, and gives one number on the phone.
Far Rockaway sellers pay the NYC RPTT (1% up to $500,000, 1.425% above) and the 0.4% NYS transfer tax; Tony nets both. Almost every Far Rockaway property is in a Special Flood Hazard Area, so a mortgage buyer must carry flood insurance and a lender wants an elevation certificate — cash removes both. Sandy-era grants (Build It Back, SBA) sometimes leave a lien or a compliance covenant on title; Tony's title company clears them at 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.
Buying since 2018· every county in New Jersey and New York · no commissions or fees · every closing at a licensed NY title company.
Contact
Drop your number and Tony reaches out about your Far Rockaway 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 Far Rockaway 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 Far Rockaway 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. Houses that were gutted and left, raised halfway, or patched with mold behind the walls are the kind Tony buys in Far Rockaway. He doesn't need an elevation certificate, flood insurance, or a finished repair. Tell him what was done and what wasn't, including any Build It Back or SBA history, and he'll give you a number.
Yes — ZIPs 11691 and 11692 in full: bungalows in Edgemere, frames and two-families in Arverne and Wavecrest, larger houses near Central Avenue and in Bayswater, condos and townhouses in Arverne by the Sea, and co-ops on Seagirt Boulevard. Flood zone doesn't change whether he'll buy. One call with the address gets you a number.
Yes. Build It Back and SBA disaster loans often left a lien or a covenant on title that must be satisfied or released at closing. Tony's title company gets the payoff or release, it's handled from the proceeds, and his offer accounts for it. It adds paperwork, not a reason he won't buy.
Selling to Tony ends both. Back taxes and any City lien are paid off from the proceeds at closing, and Tony carries the house afterward — with or without insurance, that's his decision, not a condition on you. He can close in about a week once title is clear, which usually beats waiting for the lien sale or the next premium notice.
Live out of state and need to sell a Far Rockaway property? Call Tony at 1-908-768-4759. Cash, remote, 7 days.
§·· / Schedule
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.
Different situation? Tony also handles these Far Rockaway cases:
← All cash buyer options for Far Rockaway·Queens County·New York