New House Flip — Bruce St Rehab Underway

We are starting up another fun filled rehab project!!!

I’ve been after the Bruce St property for about 4 years. This house is a total piece of crap, so I don’t even know what possessed me to pursue this dump… but I was working with the owner for awhile and got no where, finally the bank took it back and we were able to buy it as an REO. The cool thing about this house, like our Fullerton St properties, is that it came with an extra building lot.

As always, this house is in need of some minor TLC. It’s not too bad, we just have to tear the roof off the house, fully gut the interior, tear out and rebuild two foundation walls, do all new mechanicals (plumbing, heating system, electrical), raise the whole second floor roof line a couple feet, install new siding and windows, etc…….. You know, your typical “paint and carpet” type rehab!!! Lol

So here are some pictures of this gem . Another Hampden Homebuyers special!!!

Bruce St Springfield MA

38 Bruce St

Side View Bruce St

Extra Lot

Bruce St Garage

Living Room

View into Dining Room

Dining Room

Kitchen

First Floor Bathroom

Bedroom 1

Bedroom 2

Bedroom 3

Awesome Blue Bathroom

Blue Second Floor Bathroom

Cracking Foundation Wall

The house has been empty for over 5 years and definitely needs some sprucing up and redecorating.

The sad thing is a house in this condition no longer even phases me. Most buyers would walk into this place and want to run out screaming… or they would walk through and get very depressed, thinking how could someone let a house get so damn nasty!!

Our first step was to take the roof off the house. We did this because the second floor ceilings were just a little over 6 feet high, which is not very functional. I think minimum code nowadays for ceiling height within living space is 7 ft 6 in.

Here are some cool pics from demo day… get your Hard Hats!!!!

Start of Bruce St Demolition

Tearing More Off!!

Dominic Enjoying the View

Dom Flexing his Muscles

This Can't be Safe

The Roof Collapsing Around Me

I Made it to the Top!!!

Almost Losing My Balance.... Don't Try this at Home!!!!

Fork Lift in Action

Our Contractor Jason Moving my Car

Tearing off the Garage Addition

Garage Addition going Bye Bye

Roof All Gone!!!

Job Well Done

Those of you who are friends with me on Facebook have probably already seen these photos. By the way, if you aren’t my friend on Facebook click the little f in the upper right hand corner of this webpage and make me your friend, or just click HERE….. please, I need all the friends I can get!!

Actually, come to think of it, Dominic needs friends more than I do, he’s kind of lonely, so make him a friend here: Friend Dominic on Facebook

So what do you think? Looks like fun doesn’t it??

64 Fullerton St, Rehab Complete – House Flip Update

Last week we sold our almost new construction rehab at 9 Juliette St in Chicopee MA. We found this buyer just two weeks back and he was willing to pay cash for the property so we were able to get it closed up real quick. Our buyer did want some changes made to the house so we had our contractor Jason busting his ass to get them done in a very tight time frame. All in all it was a pretty good deal. We did take a slight discount on our asking price due to the “cash” status of our buyer…. but when your buyer gives a non-refundable $10k deposit and wants to close in 2 weeks you become a bit more flexible as a seller.

Now onto some ongoing projects;

Our 64 Fullerton St rehab is complete and now on the market.

This property was a full interior gut renovation with new electrical, new plumbing, new heating system, new kitchen, adding a half bath, installing all new windows, adding insulation, new sheetrock, new paint and all new flooring. The outside needed alot of landscaping and tree clearing, but it did have a new roof and good siding when we purchased the home.

We did have to do some major work to the 2 car garage. This consisted of tearing off a falling down addition, siding the garage and doing a new roof on the garage.

Overall I think we spent a little over $50k on the renovations…. and the house came out awesome, as usual.

Check out the video and photos we did of 64 Fullerton St. (You can see all the before pics HERE)

64 Fullerton St Springfield MA For Sale

64 Fullerton St - Flip this House

64 Fullerton Garage - House for Sale Springfield MA

64 Fullerton Kitchen

New Stainless Steel Appliances, Tile Countertop and Backsplash

16x16 tile floor, New Birch Cabinets... nicely staged!!

Hallway

Breakfast Bar. Dining room looking into kitchen

Dining room with Bamboo Flooring

Living Room with Hardwood Bamboo Flooring

New First Floor Half Bath

Second Floor Full Bath with tile floor and Mocha euro style vanity

Tile tub surround with glass block inlay and body jet shower panel

Bedroom with new Berber carpet and new windows

New Boiler, Water Heater and Plumbing

Rehab Complete – 51 Crystal Ave Springfield MA

Our rehab of 51 Crystal Ave in Springfield is now complete. This house was a full gut rehab and came out very nice.

Check out the photos and see for yourself!! (You can see the awesome before pics HERE)

House for Sale

51 Crystal Ave Springfield MA

51 Crystal Ave

Rear of House

Kitchen w/ Cherry Cabinets

Open Dining Room/Living Room

Breakfast Bar

View down hallway to front door

First Floor Half Bath

Stairway with Stained Glass Window

Full Bath - 2nd Floor

Tiled Tub Surround, Inlay and Shower Panel

Bedroom

Finished Third Floor Loft

Loft

111 Daviston St Rehab Complete

First off an update on a couple properties. We put 107 Granger St on the market last weekend and received an offer the second day on the market and another the seventh day on the market. We accepted an offer on our Juliette St property over the weekend. The buyer of 9 Juliette St was originally very interested in purchasing our 1892 Parker St property, but was just a few days too late as we had already accepted another offer. We stayed in touch with this buyer, and when Juliette St was complete we got them right over there and they decided to buy that one.

We’ve got quite a few more rehabs finishing up over the next 2 weeks and I’d be ecstatic if they all went as fast as Granger St.

One of our projects that we just finished up is 111 Daviston St in Springfield. This house is officially on the market and ready for a new family.

Here are some pics of the finished project; (you can see all the before pics HERE)

House for Sale Springfield MA

111 Daviston St Springfield MA

Daviston St front entrance

111 Daviston St Springfield For Sale

Living Room w/Fireplace

Dining Room

Daviston St Kitchen

Granite Countertops, 16x16 Tile Floors

Tile Backsplash

Fridgedaire Gallery Stainless Steel Appliances

New Half Bath

Master Bedroom with Gorgeous Hardwoods

Full Bath

Shower Panel with Bodyjets

51 Crystal Ave – House Renovation Update

Last time I showed you our property on Crystal Ave in Springfield it was being gutted down to the studs.

It is now nearly complete and we will be putting it on the market shortly. This house was a full gut and we are doing new everything… roof, siding, windows, mechanicals, kitchen, bathrooms, floors, third floor expansion, driveway…. you get the picture; everything.

It’s definitely going to be the best house on the street by far. It’s in a part of the city that we don’t do alot of houses in, so selling something in this area will be a new experience for us.

I just realized right now that I never put up any before pics of this house… only some demo pics. So I’m going to post some before pics here. This house was really nasty and you’ll get a sense as to why we chose to do a full gut. I will also post some pics I took of the house from last week as we are getting close to finishing.

Here are the before pics;

51 Crystal Ave Springfield MA Before

Kitchen pic 1

Kitchen pic 2

Hallway leading into Kitchen

Dining Room

Living Room with Spooky writing on the wall

Weird Fake Fireplace in Living Room

First Floor Half Bath

Second Floor Full Bath

Bedroom

Third Floor Attic

Some houses you walk into, take a look around, realize that there isn’t anything worth saving, and you just say “OK, lets gut it”. This was one of them….

Now time for some pictures that are a little more pretty. We removed quite a few walls from the first floor to give this house a great open floor plan.

51 Crystal Ave Springfield MA

Crystal Ave Springfield MA house for sale

New Kitchen Cabinets being installed

Kitchen Breakfast Bar looking into Dining Room

View of Living and Dining Room with Walls Removed

Dining Room

Living Room

View from Front Door looking into Kitchen, Living room and Dining Room

A look at the Staircase leading to 2nd Floor

Check out the Nice Stained Glass Window

Converted 3rd Floor Space

Third Floor Space

View looking down the Stairs from the 3rd floor loft

The converted third floor is coming out very cool. We moved and rebuilt the staircase going up there and made it all open…. almost like a loft. This space could be used as a fourth bedroom, office, den, etc…..

Allright, so this one should be finishing up within a few days. We will stage it and get it for sale. I’ll post some pics of the fully rehabbed house when we’re done.

-Happy Flipping!!

Need to Sell Your Springfield House “As-Is” now?

How to Sell Your House ‘As Is’ at a Fair Price on the Date of Your Choice

If you want to sell your Springfield area house in the fastest, easiest, and most convenient manner, read this important message. You may discover the perfect solution… because we buy many houses throughout Western MA.

Selling a house is usually an expensive and complicated process. That’s why real estate agents make thousands (sometimes tens of thousands) of dollars on a single sale. But, when we buy your Springfield house, there are no commissions to pay. And you certainly won’t have to tolerate dozens of total and sometimes frightening strangers tramping through your home and poking through your drawers and closets.

We are a real estate investment company that works in the greater Springfield area and we buy a number of houses each month throughout the region… and in every price range. But the best part is… we use private funds that require no long, drawn out bank approvals. So we can act fast! We can usually close within 14 days… or as little as 72 hours. We’re as serious about buying your house as you are about selling it.

That’s the biggest difference between us and listing with a real estate agent. An agent will list your house… hoping it sells within 3 to 6 months. I want to buy your house…. now! That’s a huge difference when you’re the one with the house for sale. An agent lists five, ten, even dozens of houses at a time, and it’s rare if an agent can give all of those properties his or her close personal attention. It’s no wonder that a listed home can sometimes take a long time to sell while you, the owner, are stuck maintaining the property and making house payments month after month.

What’s your alternative? Of course you could just sell it yourself — without an agent. After all, who knows more about the house than you do? But consider this. How many houses have you bought and sold in your lifetime? Two, maybe three? If so, you haven’t had to solve even a fraction of the problems that usually pop up — right before closing.

Remember, buying a house is a big decision for most people and it’s easy for them to get “spooked.” At the first sign of a complication or small problem (like a lien, necessary repair, or one of the other typical closing glitches), they can run like a scared jackrabbit.

Then you have to start all over at square one — it’s a frustrating experience. Plus, when you try to sell it yourself, you still have to put up with dozens of strangers tramping through your home — only now you’ll have to be there yourself. For some owners, that’s a scary thought. And what if you need to move fast? You could dump the price and hope someone will steal your house, but can you afford to do that? Or, you could go ahead, move out, and leave it with the agent. And every month, while making two huge mortgage payments (most people find that tough to swallow), you hope and pray that someone will buy your old house next month — and the next — and the next. Of course, that’s assuming you can even qualify for a new mortgage with the old one still on your back.

And when it’s sitting vacant, what’s going to stop someone from climbing through the kitchen window and tearing up your property? Frankly, that’s more worry and aggravation than most people need in a lifetime. Pretty grim, huh?

Which way do you turn? To an agent with dozens of other listings to handle? Selling on your own and sweating out financing details, lost deals, last minute closing “surprises”? Moving out and hoping you don’t get some midnight call with “bad news” about your house?

Here’s a better solution — a way out…

When Hampden Homebuyers buys your house “as is” for CASH on the date of your choice, we might help you AVOID…

Putting your house on the market entirely.
Coming out of pocket if you have little or no equity..Relying on an agent to perform or keep their promises.
Doing fix—up work to please a picky buyer…
Becoming an unwanted landlord.
Counting on a bank to approve your buyer’s loan.
Having your buyer back out at the last minute.
Paying prepayment penalties…
Having the cash you need NOW tied up in your house…
Struggling with the uncertainty of when it will sell
Making house payments you can no longer afford
Making payments on a vacant house.
Foreclosure or bankruptcy.

If your property qualifies and we come out to see it, we will provide you with a firm written offer. We’ll explain everything to you in plain, everyday English. We’ll be 100% direct, clear and honest with you… from start to finish.

In fact, we can usually “pre-qualify” your home right over the phone, in just a few minutes. That can save both of us time. If we come to an agreement, we can pay all cash with no contingencies. That’s because (unlike most potential buyers) we don’t have to sell another house first.

And if you want, we can close in just a few days. We’ll handle all of the paperwork and make all the arrangements and you can get on with your life! We don’t yet know your particular reasons for selling, but we do know how to get your house closed as quickly and professionally as possible.

Imagine, by this time next week your house could be sold!

Can we really buy your house this quickly and easily? Maybe, or maybe not. A lot of it depends on you. If you want to get above market price for your house, don’t bother calling us. We are professionals and we do expect to make a profit. Our offers are very “fair” and well thought out.

Does your property meet our requirements? Call our office and let’s find out. We buy all types of real estate and we can quickly determine if your house fits our investment needs. If we don’t end up buying your house, we’ll be happy to share ideas or advice on what you might try next. You will still have all your other options available. You have nothing to lose by calling us first.

So….. give us a call at 413-248-SELL or fill out our “Sell Your House Fast” form on our website to get the ball rolling.

When you need to sell you Springfield house now, we are the #1 choice!!

107 Granger St – Finished and Staged

107 Granger, Springfield MA Before

We’ve finished up our rehab of 107 Granger St in Springfield and the house is officially for sale.

This one came out real nice. This is the first house we went with a little darker cherry cabinet to go along with our black granite and full stainless steel appliance package. It came out great and will probably be our new standard going forward.

The rehab of this property was pretty straightforward. We expanded and converted the breezeway into living space, finished the basement, added a third bedroom, installed a new furnace and water heater, installed new plumbing, installed a new roof, gutted and redid the kitchen and bathrooms, knocked out a bunch of walls, and generally made the house look awesome!!!!

I’ve made a couple posts about this property. You can see the before pics HERE, the demo video HERE and the house all gutted HERE.

Now have a look at the finished product:

107 Granger St Springfield House for sale

107 Granger St Springfield MA

House for sale Granger St Springfield MA

Houe for Sale Springfield MA

Call Now to buy this Home!!!

Kitchen

107 Granger St Kitchen

Damn this is a Nice Kitchen!!

Breezeway Addition/Conversion

New Dining Area in Converted Breezeway

Heres where we Knocked out a Bunch of Walls

Open Floor Plan

Living Room

New View from Living Room into Kitchen

107 Granger St House for Sale Springfield MA

Bathroom

Shower Panel with Body Jets

Living Room

Bedroom

107 Granger St Finished Basement

Finished Basement

Third Bedroom

Third Bedroom Granger St Springfield MA

I think the house looks real sweet. Now all we need is a new family to make it their home.

-Happy Flipping!!

Longmeadow Rehab Video

Here is the video walkthrough we did of our new Longmeadow rehab on Fernleaf Ave. In this video our workers are stripping the cement tile roof and we outline our interior plans for the renovation.

You can get an idea of just how big this house is from the opening scene.

This house is gonna look awesome when we’re done with it!!

Fernleaf Ave Longmeadow

-Happy Flipping