Commercial leasing on Long Island

You have space sitting empty. Let us fill it.

A store, a strip center unit, an office suite, a whole building, industrial or flex space, a restaurant box, a gas station. Every month it sits, it costs you taxes, insurance, and the mortgage, and none of that comes back. This page tells you how I work a vacancy, and exactly what I will ask you on the first call, before you give me anything.

How I work a vacancy

Find the blockers first

Sanitary flow, the certificate of occupancy, open permits, exclusives already granted to a sitting tenant. These are what kill a signed deal in week six. I find them in week one, before your space goes out to anybody.

Price it the way the market reads it

You tell me the number the way you think about it, monthly or yearly per square foot, and whether taxes and common charges sit inside it or on top. I quote it in the form a tenant and their broker expect, so nobody is comparing two different things.

Qualify before you tour

Every prospect gets asked what their use actually requires and what they can show financially. You meet the ones who can perform. Your time is the scarce thing here, not interest.

The eight questions I will ask you

Here they are up front, so you can think about them before we talk. If you can answer these, you already know more about your own listing than most owners do the day they sign one.

What is the address, and how much space are we talking about?Anchors everything, and tells you whether it is town or village jurisdiction.
Is it empty right now, or is somebody in there, and when can a new tenant get in?A space that cannot be delivered is not a listing yet.
Who is on the deed, just you, or partners, family, an estate?If the person talking cannot sign alone, that has to surface before a dollar gets spent.
What are you looking to get, and does that number include the taxes and common charges, or are those on top?Gets you gross versus triple net without using either word.
Is the building on sewer, or on a cesspool?On Long Island this decides the tenant universe before anything else does.
Has it been listed before, and what happened?Tells you the real price history and who you are following.
How long can it sit empty before it starts to hurt?Motivation, in their own words. This is the pricing conversation later.
What uses will not work in this building, and why?Exclusives already granted, venting, parking counts, sanitary flow. Answers in uses, which is where the real blockers live.

Notice what is not on that list: nothing about who your tenant should be as a person. New York's Human Rights Law covers commercial space, so the conversation stays on the use and on whether the operator can perform. That protects your building and your paperwork.

Tell me about the space

Four lines about the property and how to reach you. The rest happens on the phone.

A phone or an email is enough. Both are never required.

What happens next

Muds calls you, usually the same day, and runs the eight questions above. If the space and the plan line up, he sends the longer intake so every detail is captured once, in writing, before anyone tours the building.

This page holds no commercial rent or market data and quotes none. What a specific space should ask depends on the building, the block, and what a tenant can do with it, which is a conversation, not a lookup. Mohammed "Muds" Mudassir is a licensed real estate salesperson with OverSouth Real Estate, St James NY.

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