42 Wexford St – Finished and Staged, plus changes coming to the Blog….

So it’s been just about a year since I set this blog up (April 6th was my first post) and I could never have imagined just how many deals we’d be doing, and how much this blog would grow. To be honest, I had no clue what I was doing when I set this up…. I just used your basic WordPress hosted site and started writing and posting pictures of our various deals. Well, here it is one year later, we’ve built a Flipping Machine, and now I’m looking to build a little nicer website, but there are some serious limitations to using a basic WordPress hosted site…. so the plan is to move the blog over to private hosting and set up a more customized site that offers a richer experience. Right now it’s all a work in progress, but I will let you know when it is complete. (I know your waiting on the edge of your seat!!!!)

OK, back to why you came here; Flipping Houses.

The spring market is here and there are alot of buyers out trying to beat the deadline for the tax credit. So far we’ve put 143 Lloyd Ave and 70 Glenwood St on the market, both are now under agreement with home inspections scheduled for this weekend.

Next up to hit the market is 42 Wexford St. I posted some pics of this house a few weeks back as we were winding down. Now I have all the final pictures of the home finished and staged (you can see the before pictures HERE). Have a look;

Exterior

42 Wexford St Springfield MA

House For Sale Wexford St Springfield

New Driveway and 2 Car Garage

On the exterior we added a new roof, installed new windows, painted all the trim, added new shutters, repointed the chimney, added a new driveway, and installed two new garage doors with automatic overhead openers. We also pulled out 7 overgrown shrubs that were blocking the front of the house. The roof on this house was very expensive and kind of caught us by surprise. It has a very steep pitch and because of all the various dormers there were a lot of cuts that needed to be made. Also the roof had two layers of shingles over the original cedar shakes, so all that had to be ripped off and we had to lay new plywood.  

 

Interior

Living Room looking at Staircase

Living Room Fireplace and Mantle

Den located off Living Room

Dining Room

Archway between Dining Room and Kitchen

Kitchen Pic 1

Kitchen Pic 2

Kitchen Pic 3

Archway Looking from Kitchen into Dining Room

Full Bath Pic 1

Full Bath Pic 2

Master Bedroom

Master Bedroom Pic 2

On the interior we did a full gut of the kitchen, added the archway and breakfast bar between the kitchen and dining room, opened the wall between the kitchen and living room, redid both bathrooms, added tile to the kitchen and bathroom floors, refinished all the hardwoods, did some new sheetrock, painted everything, did some new electric including a new 200 amp panel, added all new plumbing, and installed a new boiler.

 

So thats it for Wexford… another successful project. It’s live on the MLS now and with the nice weather we are suppose to have this weekend hopefully we’ll have some traffic and a couple offers to follow!!!

To all my religious folks out there, have a good Good Friday…. and to the rest of you, have a good Friday 🙂

Comments

  1. Hey Matt,

    Congrats on blogging for a year! That’s quite an accomplishment.

    Happy 1st blog bday 🙂

    ~ Patrick

  2. Matt,

    I sure hope you are going with the WordPress as a CMS on private hosting. With all the plugins and templates avilable, I think you will really lke it.

    I’ve built a few of my own and enjoy working with wordpress (not the free unhosted one like this)

    • Hi Tony,

      Yes I will be using WordPress.

      Theres so many different themes and plugins I don’t know what to use….lol!!

      • Yes, there are many and it all depends on what you want your site to do.

        The four I recommend off the top of my head are the SEO All in one, the auto rss/ping plug in, the wordpress site back up plugin and the site caching plugin.

        Just be sure you lock down your blog and always make backups.

  3. How are you finding all of your deals?

    • Hi Stephen,

      We use a lot of different methods for finding deals. My theory is to consistently cast a real wide net, that way we keep the pipeline full.

      Some of my favorites are direct mail, banners on our properties, referrals from agents and attorneys, internet marketing, and lately, REO’s.

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