My name is Matt Kearney; (that’s me below) 
I am a full time Real Estate Investor located in Springfield Massachusetts. My business partner; Dominic Kirchner, and I run Hampden Homebuyers LLC. We buy, sell and rent residential real estate, specializing in the renovation of blighted properties. We are currently buying and selling 1-2 properties per month in the worst real estate market since the great depression. Guess we didn’t get the memo that the market sucks!!
Follow us on this blog as we go from doing 1-2 deals per year, to doing 1-2 deals per month….
and here is Dominic:
Hi Matt!
Last month you posted a real estate success story on the forum at http://www.flippinghomes.com. I would love to share your recent success with our readers in our next e-newsletter! Would you e-mail me at jen@flippinghomes.com, if you’re interested?
Thanks so much and Congratulations!
Jen
Matt,
It’s great to see someone else my age as a full time investor … like you mentioned in your comment over at my blog, you got your first private money lender at 23 … I got my first at 22. Looks like we’ve been on a similar path.
Good luck with everything and let me know if I can help you out in any way.
~ Patrick Riddle
Matt-Just linked to you from our new Blogroll section at http://www.tomtarrant.com. Hope all is well, keep up the great work and have a good year!
Tom Tarrant
Thanks Tom,
We enjoy your blog as well and you are posted in our blog roll. Looking forward to seeing more of your future projects!
Matt -
You guys do some great work, and love the site…
I just added you to our Resources section over at 1-2-3 Flip.com (http://www.123flip.com).
Good luck, and love the blog!
J Scott
Hi J,
I’m on your site all the time… got you linked up in our blogroll too.
Best of luck,
Matt
What a great site for all of us to learn from thank you. I have a question about the site. Is there a place to find “Just The Numbers” for your deals? It would be great to see all the figures starting with Listing price all the way through counters(unless they are non listeds) and final sale price after rehab to give us all a realistic look at what is possible. You do a lot for us already and would understand if it’s too much to ask. God bless…..DaveG
Great blog – keep it up.
I got in the business in my mid twenties and it was the best thing I ever did. Though when I started the market was a little different (like you had to be a moron to lose money).
It’s good you are starting in this market so you don’t develop bad habits (because if you do in this market you won’t be in business long)
All the best to you
Thanks Curtis.
-Matt
I need your help flipping a 24 unit apartment building what do you say?
Hey Matt,
I just want to say that I’m nothing but impressed with the work that you guys do. I was wondering if you have any advice on what to watch out for or what you would do over if you had a 2nd chance to start from scratch.
The area that I’m in seems hard to farm for low prices and I keep trying to find new opportunities. I’m also on BP as Mr_C and would like to ask you some more questions if you don’t mind.
Thanks,
Curtis
Hi Curtis,
Thanks for visiting our blog.
I got your BP request and I will email you through that site so we can talk more.
-Matt
Matt,
I am very impressed with your activity and success, especially at your age. I am at the other end of the spectrum. I am nearly retirement and building my REI business here in Baton Rouge, LA. I would enjoy sharing some ideas with you.
Sincerely,
Bob Burns
Hi Matt:
I recently came across your site and thought you might be interested in the book THE FLIP: The True Life Story of How a Successful New Tract Home Investor Went from Zero to Hero, Back to Zero by Sidney Potter.
If interested, email me your address and I will send you a copy.
For more information visit http://bit.ly/ha9xFu
Best,
Ken
Hello Matt… I guess you’re not a tweeter.. Well I just wanted to congratulate you on being one of the winners of the Top Blogs of 2011, the competition was originally posted at http://bit.ly/fFWqQ5. You can read the blog at http://bit.ly/eAt7BT
I want to say that I’m nothing but impressed with the success that you guys have achieved, especially at your age.
I was wondering if you could give me some advice as I am about to invest in real estate for the first time. Help from real estate investors as successful as you guys would be greatly apreciated for the rest of my life.
I live in Fitchburg MA and I came across a 2 family property REO that seems to be a great deal. It needs a total rehab, but the asking price is in the low 40s. I will probably make an offer of 35K cash. And I am planning on spending 30K fixing it up. I think that I can sell it for about 100K after it is done. Or rent it for 1.6K a month (which probably would be my first option).
Is there anything that I should be aware of? i am a little overwhelmed when it comes to the legal part of it.
Thanks a lot! keep up the good work! And I can’t wait to hear back from you!
Thanks for the compliments Ren!!!!
$30k for a total rehab of a two family seems a bit low, unless you are doing most of the work yourself.
I’ll email you and get some more details and I can help you a little more.
Thanks again
Hey Matt,
Love the site! I am in Springfield area as well and have always wanted to get into the real estate/investing/flipping world. Any reccomendations on where to start?
Thanks for the invite. Please advise if you know any Ivestors in Pennsylvania? The Poconios, Lehigh Vally area, Philly?
Thanks
Alejandrina