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New Springfield House Flip

November 18, 2014 by Matt Leave a Comment

New Springfield MA House Flip

Here is the latest and greatest house renovation the team at Hampden Homebuyers has undertaken!!

We call this home the “Raccoon House” because it sat empty for over 12 years and was taken over by a family of wild raccoons!! They really made a crazy mess of the place, I think the pictures say it all.

We will be doing a full gut renovation on this home, including all new plumbing, new heating system, new electric, new kitchen, new baths, new walls, new floorplan, etc…….. You get the picture; new everything!

Have a look at the before pictures:

Check out the Full Album!! Link Here

So, this place was full of Crap…. literally. The Raccoons were using this place as their latrine!!! Pretty Nasty.

If you have a house in the Greater Springfield MA area that you need to sell, contact us right away!! HampdenHomebuyers.com

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209 Gifford St Update

December 5, 2009 by Matthew Leave a Comment

Renovations are moving right along at the Gifford St project. When I last showed you this house it had no roof (see the picture above).

Now after a little over a week we’ve got the new roof on, the dormer is built out, all the new windows are installed and the house is being wrapped in vinyl siding. Once the outside is complete, the roof is shingled, and the property is weather tight we’ll begin framing the new layout on the first and second floor.

Heres a look at the house so far;

209 Gifford; siding under way

Gifford St with New Dormer and Roof Line

Rear/Side View

New Dormer off Back of House and Repaired Chimney

New Second Floor

Skylights added to Front of House

This will Soon be 2 Bedrooms and a Full Bath!!!

So thats where we’re at now. It’s a pretty significant change from what we started with. The raised roof line and bumped out dormer gives us a ton of room on the second floor. We’ll now be adding two large bedrooms and a full bath up there.

Well thats about it for tonight. I’m taking a lead abatement class all day tomorrow so I can become certified to remove lead from our properties. This is gonna come in real handy…. especially on the multi family homes so we’ll have no problems getting clean lead certificates.

Filed Under: 209 Gifford St Springfield MA Tagged With: Dormer Construction, Flipping Houses, Gut Rehab, Hampden Homebuyers, Real Estate Investing, springfield ma, we buy houses springfield

Bootcamp and New REO Deal

October 27, 2009 by Matthew 5 Comments

We just spent the last 5 days at a Raising Private Money bootcamp in Denver and we had a great time. The event was put on by my friends at Fortune Builders. We learned alot of info, met some great people and made quite a few new business contacts.

Now it’s back to work……

We closed on our first ever REO/MLS purchase last week. Working with the bank and closing the deal went very smooth. This property does need work, we are going to be installing new siding, new windows, adding a new kitchen and redoing both bathrooms. The major problem with this property is the way the second floor bathroom is layed out. They built the tub into the sloping roof line of the house, so if you are over 5 foot 6 there isn’t enough head room to take a shower. To fix this we are going to be gutting the bathroom and rearranging the layout to make it more functional.

Here are some pictures of the house;

Front View

Rear View

Kitchen

Kitchen

First Floor Bath

Living Room

Living Room 2

Dining Room

Second Floor Bathroom

Second Floor Tub built into Roof Line

Bedroom 1

Bedroom 2

Bedroom 3

This house has 4 Bedrooms 2 Full Baths and 1,500 square feet. It has a really nice floor plan and is gonna look great once we’re done with the renovation.

Filed Under: 53 Fullerton St Springfield Tagged With: 53 Fullerton St Springfield MA, Borrow Private Money, Flipping Houses, Fullerton St Springfield MA, Lend Private Money, Private Lending, Real Estate Investing, Real Estate Investor Loans, springfield ma

37 Mansfield St and New Deal Updates

October 18, 2009 by Matthew 2 Comments

Things are still moving fast and furious! We’ve had six closings over the last few weeks with one more scheduled for Monday. In total we sold four of our properties and bought two new rehabs, with a third new rehab set to close Monday.

We spent today touring some of our projects with a couple of our private lenders from the Boston area. While we were out walking the properties we got two more offers accepted!! One is a MLS listed property that we offered on Thursday. The second is a private owner that we met with on Friday and presented them with an offer. Both are looking to close ASAP so we’re gonna be busy getting everything together for these purchases. These two properties are on complete opposite ends of the spectrum. The MLS property is in terrible condition and will be a full gut. It’s real nasty and kinda spooky…. just like Bessemer and the Ware House were. The second property is a very light rehab; condition wise it’s probably one of the better houses we’ve purchased. It will need paint and light kitchen and bath updates.

I’ve fallen behind with the updates on the fire damaged multi family on Mansfield St. We’re almost done with this one and should be able to get it to the market next week. Heres a pictorial timeline;

All the walls were insulated throughout the house.

The sheetrock was delivered and put on all three floors.

All the sheetrock was hung…. it finally looks like a house again!

Sheetrock gets taped and mudded (is that a word??)

Vandals break in and completely TRASH all our new walls 🙁

Just kidding…. thats a picture from when we were doing the Demo…. just making sure you’re still paying attention!

All our new walls are painted in our beautiful TAN

These pictures are from a few weeks ago. Right now all the hardwoods have been refinished, all the doors have been hung, everything has been trimmed out, the bathrooms are in and we are finishing up the kitchens. I’ll have some more current pictures/videos pretty soon.

Stay Tuned………

Filed Under: 37 Mansfield St Springfield - Multi Family Rehab Tagged With: 37 Mansfield St Springfield MA, fire damage, Fire Damaged House, Flipping Houses, Gut Rehab, Real Estate Investing, springfield ma, we buy houses springfield

Bringing Down the House…..

October 11, 2009 by Matthew Leave a Comment

well maybe not the whole house….. just the first floor.

Heres a look at how we fixed the fire damage at 70 Glenwood St. If you remember from my previous post(video or photos), the fire in this property started in the basement and burnt all the floor joists and support beams in the front half of the house. So to fix it we had to cut out the whole floor. Luckily I was there with my camera to capture the whole thing. Heres a look:

Cutting out the Floor

First Section Gone

Second Section Gone!

Almost There

Ripping out the Last Peice

Can We Save these Hardwoods??

All Gone!!

Looking at the Front Door from the Basement

Heres Whats Left of our Floor!!

After cutting out the whole floor our contractor rebuilt it from the ground up.

Heres our shiny new floor:

New Floor

And a look from the basement:

New Center Support Beam

New Floor Joists and Plywood

Whew, that was a lot of work…. I’m tired from just looking at those pictures!!

Filed Under: 70 Glenwood St Springfield MA Tagged With: 70 Glenwood St Springfield, Fire Damaged House, Flipping Houses, Glenwood St, Gut Rehab, Real Estate Investing, springfield ma, we buy houses springfield

Glenwood Fire Damage – an Upclose Look

October 4, 2009 by Matthew Leave a Comment

Things are moving right along at the Glenwood St project. Last week we passed all our rough inspections and insulation inspection. This week the sheetrockers were there hanging drywall, taping and mudding. Next step is to paint and begin all our finish work.

I made a short video of the fire damage at this property. The fire started in the basement at the old electrical box and burnt up through to the first floor. Most of the damage was done in the basement to the floor joists and support beams, including the main support beam. Have a look:

I’ll show you how we fixed it in the next post…..

Filed Under: 70 Glenwood St Springfield MA Tagged With: 70 Glenwood St Springfield, fire damage, Fire Damaged House, Flipping Houses, Gut Rehab, Real Estate Investing, springfield ma

Starting the Week off Right

September 30, 2009 by Matthew Leave a Comment

This week started off just like last week….. with a closing on Monday and another on Tuesday. We sold the Ware House on Monday and sold 39 Brooks St on Tuesday.

The Ware House – If you remember this beauty I was up in the air about rehabbing it or just wholesaling it. We closed on it, but because it’s located about 45 minutes outside our normal territory, we couldn’t get any of our contractors to travel out and do the work…. so I ended up putting it on the MLS and got a cash buyer who is going to fix it up and live in it. We only paid $15,000 for this gem so it was pretty easy to flip it out for a quick profit.

We are still waiting on the clear to close for Hartford Terrace, we should sell that at the end of this week. We also have two more purchases lined up for next week. These last few weeks have been really crazy as we have worked through all these closings….. by the end of next week we will have closed on seven properties in total, selling four of our properties and buying three new ones! I guess when it rains it pours!!!!!

Filed Under: 39 Brooks St Springfield MA, The Ware House Tagged With: 39 Brooks St, Buy home springfield ma, Buy House Springfield MA, Flipping Houses, House for Sale, House for sale Springfield MA, Real Estate, Real Estate Investing, sell house springfield, springfield ma

New Deal Under Contract

September 19, 2009 by Matthew 2 Comments

We put a new house under contract on Tuesday morning with a closing scheduled for the following Monday. Thats four days to get the cash together, pull title and close it…. Dominics’ going to be busy!! This is a probate deal that we are purchasing from another wholesaler. It’s not a homerun but I fell in love with the house and the street pretty quickly. Its a large English Tudor style home and I’ve been wanting to rehab one of these for years, as it’s probably my favorite style of home. The house also has a great floorplan… reminds me alot of Hartford Terrace.

Heres a few photos: