More Bruce St Demo

November 12, 2010 by 4 Comments

Wow, this demo stuff is fun!!!! Check out the little video we made from the first day of demo at our Bruce St project.

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We now have the new roof built up, it is all framed, has new plywood and is shingled.

New Roof is on, Plwood Being Loaded

Inside View, Jason Deep in Thought

We have also stripped all the old siding off the house and have it ready for our awesome new Tan siding.

38 Bruce St

New Roof is on

Rear View of House

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If you look closely at the pictures above you can see we have dug out all along the foundation wall on the right side of the house. This is the wall that we are going to be tearing out and replacing. It is cracking right in the middle and has a real nasty bow to it.

Here are some pics of the bad foundation, look closely and you can see the way it bows in right in the middle:

Bruce St Foundation

Its Leaning in a Little Bit!!!

I'm Holding the Camera Straight... See that Lean

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So thats our next big fix at this house. Right now the house is all jacked up off the foundation and the bad wall will be torn out and rebuilt.

– Happy Flipping

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New House Flip — Bruce St Rehab Underway

November 10, 2010 by 6 Comments

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??

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107 Granger St – Finished and Staged

October 2, 2010 by 2 Comments

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

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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!!

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New Construction Rehab – 9 Juliette St Chicopee

September 24, 2010 by 8 Comments

We’ve finished the renovation work at our almost new construction house on Juliette St in Chicopee. This was a pretty easy job as the house is probably less than 2 years old.

The builder didn’t finish quite a few things and overall the quality of the finish work was pretty poor, so we went in and did some “redecorating”. We painted the whole interior, installed granite in the kitchen and added really high end Samsung stainless steel appliances, finished the 2 bathrooms, re-tiled some floors, added new hardwoods throughout the house, patched some walls, repoured some concrete, and landscaped the property.

We staged the house and put it on the market.

Here’s the finished product; (you can see all the before pictures HERE)

9 Juliette St Chicopee MA

View of Kitchen from Dining Area

Kitchen

Kitchen

Kitchen

Great Room/Dining Area

New Bamboo Hardwood Flooring

Master Bedroom

Master Bathroom

Full Bath 2

Basement

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Dorothy Ave Sold, Fullerton St Interior Update

September 5, 2010 by 4 Comments

35 Dorothy Ave Chicopee MA complete

We sold our 35 Dorothy Ave rehab on Monday. This was a short sale that we purchased back at the end of April/early May. The rehab was pretty easy and took just under 30 days. We put the house on the market in June and got an offer in 1 day! The biggest challenge we had with this deal was in working with the new buyers lender. They wouldn’t waive the 90 day FHA seasoning requirements so we had to wait the 90 days to sign the P&S and to be able to close. This cost us a little bit of time but it wasn’t too bad.

All in all this was a really smooth deal, even the short sale negotiations to purchase the house went real quick.

You can see the before pictures HERE and the after pictures HERE.

Now onto an interior update for 64 Fullerton St.

64 Fullerton St Springfield MA

In my last post I showed you how the house looked inside after we had gutted it out. Well I took some more recent photos of the interior as we are starting the finish work there. All the sheetrock is up, everything is painted, and we are starting down the home stretch.

Here’s how she looks:

Kitchen looking from main hallway

Kitchen looking from Dining Room

Living Room

Dining Room

Bathroom

Tub waiting to be Tiled

Bedroom

Pretty soon this one will be done, then it’s time to stage it and bring it to the market!

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House Flip Update: 64 Fullerton St

August 29, 2010 by 1 Comment

The 64 Fullerton St project is moving right along.

We had to do quite a bit of yard work and tree removal to this property. There were a number of large trees surrounding the house, yard and garage that we removed. You can see some of them in the pictures below:

64 Fullerton with Trees

Trees overhanging Fullerton

Trees on Garage

Our landscaper and contractor spent a long weekend playing Lumberjack and took them all down. It really makes a big difference…. check out the pictures below:

Fullerton with trees gone

64 Fullerton St Springfield MA

Lots of Fire Wood

All Clear

Stumps from Trees

The majority of the exterior work is now done. Along with the tree removal we put in a new driveway, sided and roofed the garage, tore off the addition on the garage, and added some new garage doors.

Here’s how it looked yesterday when I was at the house.

64 Fullerton Exterior Nearly Complete

64 Fullerton St

We didn’t have to do siding or a roof on the main house, we were able to just powerwash it and put some new shutters on the house.

The inside is almost complete now too. Below are some photos of when we first gutted the house out and the plumbers and electricians were doing there rough ins. You can see all the before pictures HERE.

Living Room

Dining Room

Kitchen

New Half Bath Framed In

Master Bedroom

We should be finishing up the interior work on this one pretty soon so I’ll post some more pics as we wrap that up.

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107 Granger St Update – Open it Up

August 19, 2010 by Leave a Comment

Lots happening this week.

We finally sold our 8 Bosworth St rehab. This was suppose to close back on June 17th but we hit a couple delays with the buyers financing. We are also buying two new rehabs that I’ll write about in future posts.

Our 107 Granger St project is moving right along. We’ve got all the sheetrock up, everything is painted, the kitchen cabinets are in, and the plumber and electrician are starting their finish work.

Here are some photos of the changes we have made. (You can see the before pics HERE and the before video HERE)

107 Granger St Springfield

Above is a look at the outside with the new siding and new roof.

Here is a view of the kitchen looking in from the living room. We removed the wall that enclosed the stairs going down into the basement and we also removed the wall between the kitchen and living room.

Here is the view from the kitchen looking into the converted breezeway. We removed the exterior wall that separated the two rooms.

This is a look at the addition that we built off the back of the breezeway. By adding this extra space we were able to move the eat-in area out of the kitchen, which gave us room for more cabinets and appliances.

This is the view standing in the breezeway looking back into the kitchen and living room. By removing all those walls it really makes the floorplan much more open and functional.

Looking at the kitchen from the breezeway. We are now going to be able to run cabinets along most of this wall and fit our fridge.

Looking into the living room from the kitchen.

Here is the bathroom, which we expanded out a little to fit a larger vanity as well as a linen closet.

 

So there’s a look at some things you can do to open up a floorplan and make a small, boxy house alot more open and functional. It definitely is some extra work, but that’s what it takes to sell houses in this market!

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107 Granger Demo – House Rehab Video Update

August 4, 2010 by 2 Comments

Heres a quick video we did of our Granger St property during demo. You can see all the before pictures of the house HERE.

This property is moving right along. We have the new addition/breezeway conversion built, all the mechanicals are roughed in, the sheetrock is up and the walls have been painted.

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