Here’s a little video walkthrough we did for the Rhinebeck Ave rehab.
Check out how nice this home is!!
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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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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New Camera and Staging Homes to Sell
April 19, 2011 by 10 Comments
I’ve been operating with this really old clunky digital camera for the last 5-6 years. It’s a Kodak easyshare with an incredible 3.2 mega pixels. I used it a ton for my former profession as a commercial property inspector. It actually took a pretty decent picture, and the file sizes were so small it made uploading pictures to the internet a breeze…..
but lately I’ve been looking at some MLS listings and noticed how nice and crisp the photos were looking of agents who were using newer cameras…. and I started to get a little picture envy. So I went out and picked up the latest and greatest Kodak Easyshare from Wal-Mart. This camera has 14 Mega Pixels and a 4x wide lens that really fits the whole room into each picture.
I am really picky about the photos we use for our finished rehabs…. I usually will take about 50-60 photos of each house and then pick the best 15-20 to use for all the online pictures.
I think your pictures are one of the most important parts of selling your house. With pretty much every buyer nowadays looking at properties online, you’ve got to have amazing pictures to really draw the buyers interest. Nothing baffles me more than when an agent uses dark, fuzzy off center photos in a property listing…. I just don’t know what they are thinking!!!!
OK…. back to my new camera…… I’ve got to say that I’m really impressed with the photos this camera is taking. It’s a really cheap camera from WalMart but the pictures look like a million bucks.
Here are some recent photos I took of some of our staged homes:
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Staged House for Sale
Home Staging
Dining Room Staged
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Wow…. those are some incredible looking photos!!!!
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Now if you’re still holding onto your old camera, like I was, check out the difference between the two.
Living Room pic with Old Camera
Living Room Pic with New Camera
The new camera is really wide and it fits in so much more of each room. It also makes every photo really bright… even when there is not too much light, which is what you want!!!! Nobody likes looking at dark pictures!!
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So that brings me to my next point; staging. I’m really digging the way our homes are looking fully staged. I think we’re gonna try to stage every house like this. They come out looking incredible and the staging just accentuates how awesome our rehabbed homes are!!!!
When you put together the new camera and the staged homes, our pictures are looking killer, and thats what sells houses!!
Staged Master Bedroom
Staged Home for Sale
Staged Living Room
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Ok, time for one more comparison…. check out the staged pictures vs. the unstaged pictures:
Unstaged Living Room/Dining Area
Staged Living Room/Dining Area
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So there you have it….. if that’s not enough incentive for you to upgrade from your old 2.0 Mega Pixel camera and maybe start fully staging your rehabbed homes, I don’t know what is!!
And now time for the most important lesson from this Blog post………. Your pictures are incredibly important!!!!!! so Don’t Screw them Up!!!! 🙂
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64 Fullerton St, Rehab Complete – House Flip Update
November 3, 2010 by 4 Comments
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)
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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
October 22, 2010 by 9 Comments
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)
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
October 14, 2010 by 3 Comments
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)
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Daviston St front entrance
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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
107 Granger St – Finished and Staged
October 2, 2010 by 2 Comments
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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 MA
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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
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!!
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