Bessemer is sold… and a few firsts for Hampden Homebuyers

Monday was a day of firsts for our business…. We closed on our first ever deal bought from a wholesaler, the English Tudor on Wexford St I wrote about in my last post. We put this house under contract last week on Tuesday and closed yesterday (the following Monday).  Also it looks like we are going to be [...]

Bessemer Pictures, Finished and Staged

Here’s the finished pictures of Bessemer St; cleaned, staged and ready for a new buyer!! 

 
Dang, thats alot of pictures….. didn’t realize I took so many!!! 
The house came out great and I definetly think it will sell fast. I’m off to the open house.

Bessemer–Finishing Up

Work is almost complete at Bessemer St. We have started showing the property and have received very positive feedback… we actually may be getting two offers before the house even officially goes on the market.
The transformation of this property has been amazing and the finished product is looking great. Have a look at the house [...]

It’s a Jungle Out There

The backyard at Bessemer St is huge. It’s about 3 times as big as a typical city lot here in Springfield. The only problem is that is was completely overgrown from years of neglect and once all the leaves started to grow in it looked like a jungle.
Heres how it looked in the spring before [...]

Weekly Recap; plus We’re in the News

Last week we stayed pretty busy. I met Bank of Americas appraisor at a short sale we are working on in Springfield. The meeting went well and I’m hoping we can get the value down to a low enough point that we can purchase the property. We also received a cash offer on a nine unit commercial building that [...]

Bessemer Week 7…. and other updates

We received an offer on Hartford Terrace after only four days on the market…. negotiations are underway so I’ll let you know what happens!
Bessemer St is moving right along and we should be finishing up the rehab over the next week or so. Have a look at the progress after week 7:

Bessemer Update

Bessemer St is moving right along. We are starting our sixth week over there.  We’ve gotten all the inspections for the rough plumbing, rough electric, framing and insulation. The bedrooms and bathroom have been framed out in the new dormer and sheetrock has been hung. They should finish taping and mudding tomorrow than we can start [...]

Friday Already?

Dang these weeks are flying by…. Well as expected we hit some delays on a couple of our closings, and only ended up buying one property, the other four are on hold due to banks and appraisers mucking things up. The one we bought is a sub2 where the sellers paid us $6,500 to purchase the [...]

One Week at Bessemer

We are one week into construction on Bessemer St. Here is a video update:

Construction for this project should run another seven weeks. So far we have been very happy with our new contractor Jason. We have had some bad experiences with contractors over the last six months… cost us alot of [...]

Day 4 Highlights

Heres a video I took Monday of the progress so far at Bessemer St. Things are moving along well.

We are starting to get some good publicity from this project. We did a photo shoot yesterday with our local paper that is going to be running a story about the house and [...]