Joan Prout

Hi Sayali,

Bayonne is a nice, clean little city. Geographically, it is long and narrow, and the commute to NYC can be rather long if you are located in Bayonne's Downtown area (which is a lot closer to Staten Island than it is to Manhattan.) As far as how an investment will work out after 5 years, who can say?

Joan Prout, MBA
Broker Associate
RE/MAX Villa REALTORS
Jersey City, NJ
mailto:Joan@JoanProut.com
800-671-0596x1 - Tue Feb 24 2009, 08:47

Hi Sayali,

Bayonne is a nice, clean little city. Geographically, it is long and narrow, and the commute to NYC can be rather long if you are located in Bayonne's Downtown area (which is a lot closer to Staten Island than it is to Manhattan.) As far as how an investment will work out after 5 years, who can say?

Joan Prout, MBA
Broker Associate
RE/MAX Villa REALTORS
Jersey City, NJ
mailto:Joan@JoanProut.com
800-671-0596x1 - Wed Dec 31 2008, 07:35

Hi Sayali,

Bayonne is a nice, clean little city. Geographically, it is long and narrow, and the commute to NYC can be rather long if you are located in Bayonne's Downtown area (which is a lot closer to Staten Island than it is to Manhattan.) As far as how an investment will work out after 5 years, who can say?

Joan Prout, MBA
Broker Associate
RE/MAX Villa REALTORS
Jersey City, NJ
mailto:Joan@JoanProut.com
800-671-0596x1 - Wed Nov 19 2008, 18:08

Hi Sayali,

Bayonne is a nice, clean little city. Geographically, it is long and narrow, and the commute to NYC can be rather long if you are located in Bayonne's Downtown area (which is a lot closer to Staten Island than it is to Manhattan.) As far as how an investment will work out after 5 years, who can say?

Joan Prout, MBA
Broker Associate
RE/MAX Villa REALTORS
Jersey City, NJ
mailto:Joan@JoanProut.com
800-671-0596x1 - Thu Jul 31 2008, 07:15

Hi Sayali,

Bayonne is a nice, clean little city. Geographically, it is long and narrow, and the commute to NYC can be rather long if you are located in Bayonne's Downtown area (which is a lot closer to Staten Island than it is to Manhattan.) As far as how an investment will work out after 5 years, who can say?

Joan Prout, MBA
Broker Associate
RE/MAX Villa REALTORS
Jersey City, NJ
mailto:Joan@JoanProut.com
800-671-0596x1 - Mon Jul 21 2008, 12:02

Hi Sayali,

Bayonne is a nice, clean little city. Geographically, it is long and narrow, and the commute to NYC can be rather long if you are located in Bayonne's Downtown area (which is a lot closer to Staten Island than it is to Manhattan.) As far as how an investment will work out after 5 years, who can say?

Joan Prout, MBA
Broker Associate
RE/MAX Villa REALTORS
Jersey City, NJ
mailto:Joan@JoanProut.com
800-671-0596x1 - Fri Jul 11 2008, 08:30

Bill,

This building is a new conversion of a small apartment building. I don't think they have established the monthly maintenance fee yet. Same with the property taxes. These are "railroad" style units. If you need a buyer's agent to represent you, please let me know. I have shown units in this building as well as competing listings in the area.

Joan Prout, MBA
Broker Associate
RE/MAX Villa REALTORS
306 Grove Street
Jersey City, NJ 07302
201-946-2700 x310
800-671-0596 x1 (direct)
Joan@JoanProut.com - Thu Jan 1 2009, 14:47

Alex,

My colleague Jackie Safran, at RE/MAX Hometown covers that area. You can reach her at (732) 548-5555 x 314 or by email at Jackie@JackieSafran.com. She's the best. Please tell her I sent you.

Joan Prout, MBA
Broker Associate
RE/MAX Villa REALTORS
306 Grove Street
Jersey City, NJ 07302
201-946-2700 x310
800-671-0596 x1 (direct)
Joan@JoanProut.com - Tue Dec 30 2008, 18:07

Be sure that you are represented by a buyer's agent who has knowledge of short sales. Understand that, regardless of what the seller wants to accept, the mortgage holder(s) of the property need to sign off on the sale and agree to receive less than they are owed. Accept that the game involves a lot of "jumping through hoops" by you and your agent. Resign yourself to the fact that you may be asked to jump through the SAME hoop more than once. Be incredibly organized. Expect to wait for answers, and then be expected to close right away.

If you need to get in touch with a good buyer's agent who covers the area where you want to buy, please contact me directly.

Joan Prout, MBA
Broker Associate
RE/MAX Villa REALTORS
306 Grove Street
Jersey City, NJ 07302
201-946-2700 x310
800-671-0596 x1 (direct)
Joan@JoanProut.com - Tue Dec 30 2008, 11:39

Hi Dawn,

Dixon Mills won awards as, I believe, the first conversion of an industrial building to luxury rental apartments, back in the 1980s. Some of the units, in the building where the pencil company's original offices were located, were intended to be sold as condos. Those in the other (factory) buildings, were going to be rented. You can tell which buildings were factory units; they are connected by catwalks. I have been dealing with the complex since 1993. If you haven't registered with the complex and would like to be represented by a buyer's agent, please contact me. If you deal with the sales office directly, you will be dealing with the listing agents (I believe Weichert still has the listing) who work for the seller. At best they will be working as disclosed dual agents.

There's some great history to this complex -- for a while, there was a stray black-and-white cat (named "Dixon") which had the run of the complex. He'd wait by the elevators until a friendly human would push the button to send him down to the first floor, so the office staff could feed him and let him sleep in the office. Dixon Mills was the first building a fellow REALTOR showed me in Jersey City when we both worked at a real estate company in Hoboken. This was in 1993. He showed me his home, Dixon Mills, and a rowhouse on Barrow Street. I was completely hooked on JC and moved to a JC agency within 6 months and have worked here ever since.

Joan Prout, MBA
Broker Associate
RE/MAX Villa REALTORS
306 Grove Street
Jersey City, NJ 07302
201-946-2700 x310
800-671-0596 x1 (direct)
Joan@JoanProut.com - Tue Dec 30 2008, 10:50