About Market America Realty & Investments

The Concept

Gregg Fous has been in real estate for over thirty years and in development for the past ten. His business has evolved as fast as the technology supporting it. He and his team have built the company on the simple premise that the company utilize the best and most up to date tools, experience, and knowledge base to serve customers. This means a relationship based company with technology at its base.

The Facts    There are Realtors and then there’s us.  It’s easy to say “we’re different,” proving it is another matter.  Market America is not just in the real estate business, we are in the CUSTOMER business.  We are here to serve you in an advisory capacity, to guide you;  in fact we are your personal real estate consultant. We have a central paperless technology system. a vitural networking platform and a decentralized nieghborhood expert system. We are growing though out Florida with multiple locations and division. 

Retail

Local Expertise coupled with Global exposure and high technology tools have helped grow our retail residential sales division  into the pride of the company. Each of our agents is  professionally trained and equipped with al the tools needed to efficiently serve our clients – be it selling or buying.

Short Sales

·         Selling a home for less than the mortgage can be a painful and mind numbing process. It requires experience, persistence, and knowledge and the use of trained professionals

·         We have developed what we call a “tight package” that when used in conjunction with the profession negotiators and the correct presentation has been successful in the market place – resulting in successful SALES.

REO/Foreclosed Homes

·         The Companies REO division efficiently handles residential and commercial REO sales for  asset management companies and directly for banks and Fannie Mae. Out team has a CCIM, a contractor, and a an REO team  dedicated to asset preservation, sales, and management. We are REO Trans certified.

·         WE NEVER forget who we work for.  We got into this business after seeing and being appalled by all the self dealing that other brokers were practicing.  We were trying to buy REO’s from other brokers who would not answer phone calls, had wrong fax numbers on their listings, and in general did everything possible to discourage participating brokers from selling their listings. We follow these  mandates for all our REO properties:

1.      Once we reach a predefined goal in offering prices on a property, we will disclose to offering brokers the prices in such a way to encourage higher bidding, not discourage it to protect internal deals.

2.      All our properties get entered into the MLS with-in a few hours of receipt and they must be on the MLS for three days prior to going pending.  We also market on over 48 websites as well as a weekly direct email campaign.  WE also PRE-market prior to the listing when possible.

3.      Brokered and CO-brokered offers are treated equally.  Whenever there is a question on how to behave, it is always answered by this: “ Is this in the best interest of the selling bank?

·         We know how to value the time of the asset manager.  This means concise reports, errorless BPOS, weekly updates, and all correspondence is timely and complete. All of our email “subjects” are consistent for each property and we are paperless in our office. We also use REOtrans for some of our clients. We under--promise and over deliver. If you give us 48 hours to turn around, we shoot for 24.

Short Sales

Selling a home for less than the mortgage can be a painful and mind numbing process. It requires experience, persistence, and knowledge and the use of trained professionals

We have developed what we call a “tight package” that when used in conjunction with the profession negotiators and the correct presentation has been successful in the market place – resulting in successful SALES.

Commercial

Our Commercial Division is where we started. Developing, entitling, building, brokering, retrofitting…. Whether its industrial buildings, retail, medical, or multifamily – we have the experience, the know-how, and the negotiating ability

Consultation/Coordination Services

            Liaison – Coordinate meetings and services from the necessary businesses. i.e.- 

                          Attorney, Engineer, Architect, Contractor, Environmental Services,

                          Governmental Services, Financial Services, Title Services, Appraiser,

  Insurance, Developer, Accountant, 1031 Exchange Services etc.

Strategic Planning – From land acquisition through project conception,

  completion, project disposition and reinvestment of funds.

            Financial Feasibility Study – Analysis of Development costs, projected sales/lease

                          price, projected return

            Investment Analysis – Performed using CCIM approved practices

Capital Market Services

                          Assist in raising equity contribution for a project

Property Sales

            Buyer qualification

            Contract negotiation

            Sale/Lease back analysis

            Facilitate the transaction

Property Leasing

            Tenant qualification

            Lease negotiation

            Facilitate the transaction

Buyer/Tenant Representation

            Market Analysis

            Contract/Lease negotiation

            Lease vs Own analysis       

Development

In today’s commercial real estate environment it is important to be able to not just list property, but to make deals happen. This is where our development experience comes in.. We can help you determine what the best course of action is for your property  - and then put the important team members together to facilitate that.