Here’s a little video walkthrough we did for the Rhinebeck Ave rehab.
Check out how nice this home is!!
84 Rhinebeck Ave Springfield Rehabbed and Staged
June 7, 2011 by 6 Comments
We’ve finished up our latest project in Springfield at 84 Rhinebeck Ave.
The house has been cleaned and staged and is ready for a lucky new buyer.
Check out the staged pics, it looks amazing!!!! (You can see all the before pics HERE)
84 Rhinebeck Ave Springfield MA House For Sale
Rhinebeck Ave Springfield House For Sale
Springfield MA House for Sale
Living Room
Living Room
Living Room Looking into Kitchen
Kitchen w/ Cherry Finish Cabinets, Granite Counters
Stainless Steel Appliances, Tile Backsplash, 16x16 Tile Floor
Eat In Kitchen Area
Fully Renovated Bathroom
Tile Tub Surround w/ Glass Tile Inlay
Bathroom
First Floor Bedroom. Brand New Bamboo Hardwood Flooring Throughout First Floor
Fireplace
Kitchen Looking into Living Room
Top of the Line Fridgedaire Gallery Stainless Appliance Package
Second Floor Bedroom. Brand New Berber Carpeting
Huge Basement just Waiting to be Finished!!
So, for a little recap; this is a 4 bedroom 2 full bath home with about 1,400 square feet. We did new windows, new plumbing, new electric, brand new floors, new sheetrock, new kitchen, new bathrooms, fresh paint. The home is vinyl sided with a 1 car garage and awesome yard. The boiler and water tank are 2 years old.
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WOW!!! This one really looks amazing!!!! Heres to a quick sale …….. 🙂
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Tornadoes and Rhinebeck Ave Rehab Finishing Up – House Flip Update
June 3, 2011 by 4 Comments
Well it has been a pretty eventful week here in Springfield MA. After enjoying a lovely Labor Day weekend we got hit by a Tornado that rolled right through the heart of Springfield. The storm demolished houses, ripped off roofs and siding, cleared trees and knocked out power for days.
Amazingly, with all the properties we own in and around Springfield, none of our houses were damaged. I can’t believe it…… if the tornado had been just a few blocks north or south of it’s actual path we would have taken quite a few direct hits.
Thanks to everyone who emailed and messaged us on Facebook making sure we were OK. Dominic still doesn’t have power at his house but things could have been a lot worse for us.
Now onto some business:
We are almost done with the rehab at 84 Rhinebeck Ave in Springfield and it is coming out beautiful!!!
As of right now we just need to get the inside cleaned and staged and the home will be ready to go on the market.
This is really a prime property; 4 bed 2 full bath Cape located in an awesome neighborhood.
In total the project took about 6-8 weeks. We had to do quite a bit of work including repairing some major water damage. We did all new flooring throughout, new walls, new kitchen, 2 new baths, new plumbing, new lighting, new trim, new doors, new windows, fresh paint and a bunch of other stuff……
Here it is almost done: (you can see all the Before pics HERE)
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View from Front Entrance, Living Room looking into Kitchen
Rhinebeck Ave Kitchen
Kitchen 2
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We did a full gut of the kitchen. The new kitchen features granite countertops, 16×16 tile floor, tile backsplash, Fridgedaire Gallery line stainless steel appliances, cherry finish cabinets, and new recessed lighting.
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In the living room we added all new Bamboo Hardwood flooring, new recessed lighting, new ceiling fan, and crown molding.
Eat In Kitchen Area
Full Bath 1
Tiled Tub Surround in First Floor Bath
Full Bath 2
Tiled Tub Surround in Bath 2
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We fully gutted both bathrooms and added new Euro style vanities in a nice dark Java finish. Both tub surrounds were tiled and a beautiful tile inlay was added.
First Floor Bedroom
Second Floor Bedroom
Huge Open Basement Ready to be Finished
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We added bamboo hardwood flooring to the first floor bedrooms. The second floor bedrooms have a nice Berber carpeting.
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Well there it is. I will get some new photos up once we have it staged. The home is sure to look even more awesome after the staging!!!!
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Another House with Burst Pipes!! – Agawam Rehab
May 31, 2011 by 6 Comments
Here’s another house that we picked up from the bank with some burst pipes, just like our 84 Rhinebeck Ave house.
It seems like every spring we score a couple of these rehabs.
You all know the story… owner moves out in Fall/Early winter…. bank doesn’t get in there to winterize the pipes…. come springtime once things thaw out a little you have water running down the ceilings and walls. If the house sits for a little while you start to get mold everywhere.
Fortunately we got to this house before the water damage was too bad and any mold could set in.
Our Agawam house is a two story colonial and all the damage happened to the first floor.
We are gonna be replacing all the water damaged walls and ceilings on the first floor. Redoing all the hardwood flooring that was damaged. We will be adding a new kitchen, redoing the half bath and a whole bunch of other nice upgrades and improvements.
The exterior of this house is in great condition, the roof is newer, the windows are new, and the siding is new…. so we barely have any work to do outside.
Here are some pics of this beauty:
Agawam MA rehab
Rear View
Pool
We got another pool with this house. We’ve filled in a number of these over the years because they were too far gone to salvage…. however this one was just installed in 2008 and seems to be in real good shape…. so I think we are finally gonna be able to save a pool here.
Kitchen
Living Room/Dining Room
Dining Room
First Floor Half Bath
Master Bedroom
Full Bath
Bedroom
Bedroom
Another Look at some of that Damage
The bank was really motivated to move this quickly before any further damage was done by the water and before some serious mold set in. We used this to our advantage, offering a very fast closing timeline, and this helped us to get the deal done.
For those of you who live down south where it is always warm, I feel bad that you will never be able to experience the joys of frozen pipes…. and the rush that comes with making a deal on these types of homes!!! 🙂
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84 Rhinebeck Ave Rehab Progress – House Flip Update
May 23, 2011 by 2 Comments
Here’s a look at our 84 Rhinebeck Ave property in Springfield.
We gutted out all the damaged sheetrock and floors.
In these photos you can see all the beautiful new sheetrock taped and mudded.
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Rhinebeck Living Room
We opened the wall between the living room and kitchen to give the space a nice open and airy feel. Look at how smooth that tape job is!!!
Kitchen Gutted Out
Heres a look at the kitchen all gutted out with the new sheetrock hung. You can see some of the rough electric and plumbing in. We also added some recessed lighting in both the kitchen and living room.
Bathroom
Here is one of the 2 full baths with all the colorful new sheetrock hung. You can also see the new vinyl replacement windows that we added throughout the house.
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Here is one of the upstairs bedrooms with all the walls painted. We will put down a new subfloor and then probably add some berber carpeting to the room.
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This ones probably gonna be finished up within the next week.
We’ll have it staged and for sale soon. I’ll post the finished pics so you can see the amazing transformation!!!!
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Shady Side Progress Update
May 15, 2011 by 3 Comments
Here’s a look at the progress of our Shady Side house flip in Longmeadow.
Longmeadow House For Sale - Shady Side
The landscaping is being done around the exterior of the house. The roof is on, all the new windows are in and the house is painted. The exterior color came out a little light but once we get the shutters on and the doors painted I think it will look good.
Shady Side Kitchen
The new cabinets are in as well as the 16×16 tile floor. We have the granite coming in as well as a real high end stainless steel appliance package.
Shady Side Living Room
Here is a look at the very large living room.
130 Shady Side Longmeadow
Here is the view from the dining room looking into the kitchen. We added a little pass through between the dining room and eat-in area of the kitchen to give the space a more open feel.
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Here is a look at our updated fireplace surround and mantle. It’s a big improvement over the dark dated stone that was here.
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This sweet little puppy is now almost done. We are just waiting to get the heat back on so our hardwood floor guy can finish up his coats of polyurethane on the hardwoods.
After the floors are done its time to clean and stage the home.
New Springfield Rehab- Rhinebeck Ave House Flip
May 11, 2011 by 3 Comments
We picked up another nice rehab property in Springfield.
It seems like every winter /spring we get 1-2 properties with frozen pipes and some pretty bad water damage. The good thing is these are pretty straightforward rehabs… just gut out the damaged ceilings, walls and floors, and fix the busted plumbing.
The nice thing about these types of properties is that the sellers are usually pretty motivated to get rid of them. Most sellers realize that if the house sits for too long with all that water in there then the mold is gonna start growing fast…. and as soon as that mold sets in the price goes way down!!
Rhinebeck Ave is a really nice 4 bedroom 2 full bath cape located in an awesome neighborhood in Springfield. This cape already has a 60% dormer, so we don’t even have to worry about doing a dormer addition.
The exterior is pretty good, all we really have to do is new windows, powerwash, and maybe add a new garage door.
Inside we need to gut out all the water damaged sheetrock and floors, add a new kitchen, do 2 new baths, new flooring, fix the busted pipes, new sheetrock, open up the floorplan and add some new lighting.
Heres a look at the house:
84 Rhinebeck Ave
Rhinebeck Kitchen
Livng Room
Dining Area
First Floor Bath
Bedroom
Second Floor Bedroom
Second Floor Bathroom
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The owner had been renting the house out for years and you can see that it was pretty dated and needed some rehab even without the burst pipes.
Ours guys have been working over there for a couple weeks and it’s almost finished. I’ll post some more pics of the progress of the job as we move forward.
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New Longmeadow Rehab – Shady Side
May 6, 2011 by 6 Comments
Well, we have another rehab in the beautiful town of Longmeadow underway.
This property is a huge executive ranch set in one of the premier neighborhoods of Longmeadow. The home is 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, has a huge master suite with master bath, and is nearly 2,600 square feet with a two car garage.
The house was in the same family since it was built and needs tons of updating. We are doing a new kitchen, new baths, new flooring, new paint, new lighting, new roof, new windows, lots of landscaping, new garage doors, new driveway etc…….
Overall its a pretty straight forward rehab, but the sheer size of the house and volume of work will be the main challenge with this project.
We made this deal during the heart of the winter when their was 18 some odd feet of snow on the ground… which made assessing the grounds and exterior of the house a bit more challenging. Once all the snow melted up we realized their was quite a bit more yard clean up and exterior work needed then we thought. Oh well…. that’s what you get for buying houses in the winter in New England!
Here are some before pics of 130 Shady Side Dr. (Look at all that snow)
130 Shady Side Dr Longmeadow
Here it is with most of that Nasty snow melted
Huge Living Room
Double Door Front Entry with Ugly Tile Floor
130 Shady Side Dining Room
Very Old Kitchen
Another View of the Dated Kitchen
Laundry Room off Kitchen
Family Room with Fireplace
Half Bath
Master Bedroom
Master Bath
Main Hallway Bath
Dueling Furnaces
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There it is….. straight out of the 60’s!!
The house is so big that they have two furnaces to heat the two separate zones of the house.
We’ve had our contractors out working at the house for the last 3 1/2 weeks and it is nearly complete. The guys are flying right along!!!!
I’ll post some updates of the progress soon.
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