Streets in Massapequa we have bought on
A sample of what we have bought in Massapequa: a house on roosevelt avenue.
Street names only, never house numbers. The sellers are entitled to their privacy, and a property address in a marketing page is a small betrayal of somebody who trusted you with a difficult situation.
Why we stay inside Nassau and Nassau
Knowing a market means knowing what a specific street trades for, which trades are worth doing, and which contractor can actually get to a job in Massapequa next week. That knowledge does not scale nationally, and companies that claim it does are usually assigning your contract to somebody who does have it, after taking a cut.
So we buy in Nassau and Suffolk and nowhere else. It means we say no to houses outside the area, and it means the number we give you in Massapequa is built on comparable sales we have actually seen rather than on a formula.
What actually moves the number on a street
Not the town-wide average. What matters is what houses like yours, on your street or the two beside it, actually closed at recently, and what condition they were in when they did.
In Massapequa that means paying attention to things a spreadsheet misses. Which blocks back onto Merrick Road, which streets took water in the last bad storm, where the Massapequa Union Free School District boundary runs, and which stretches have had enough recent renovation to pull comparable sales up.
We buy in every part of Massapequa
There is no part of Massapequa we decline, and no condition we decline either. Occupied, vacant, mid-probate, tenanted, fire damaged, hoarded, condemned. Those are the houses we look for rather than the ones we avoid.
If you are outside Massapequa but still in Nassau or Suffolk, call anyway. The boundary that matters to us is the county line, not the town line.
What you do not pay
These are the costs of putting a house on the market through an agent. None of them apply when you sell to us.
- Agent commission
- $38,250 at 5% of the Massapequa median none
- Seller closing costs
- About $15,300 on a $765,000 sale. We can cover these. none
- Repairs to make it listable
- The work it needs to show well, out of your pocket first none
- Cleanout and removal
- Paid per load, before a single buyer walks through none
- Carrying costs while it waits
- Taxes, insurance and utilities while you spend 72 to 87 days finding a buyer and waiting for their loan none
What we actually do with them afterward
They get rebuilt and sold, or occasionally held. Either way the house comes back into use, which is worth something to a Massapequa street where an empty property has been sitting for a year or two.
We are straightforward about being a business rather than a charity. But the model only works if the houses actually get renovated to a standard somebody will buy, which is a different incentive from an operation whose only product is a contract to be sold on.
What makes Massapequa a market we work
Partly the housing stock, which is mostly cape cod and hi-ranch of an age where boilers, roofs and electrical services are reaching the end of their lives. Partly proximity, which is what lets us schedule work without a premium for the travel.
And partly that Massapequa is a place where people stay. Houses here are frequently owned for thirty or forty years and then sold by the family rather than by the original owner, and that particular situation, an estate or a move into care, is most of what we handle.
The boundaries and landmarks we work around in Massapequa
Merrick Road, Sunrise Highway, the Massapequa Preserve. These are not decoration on a page. Proximity to each of them changes what a house is worth, and in different directions depending on which one and how close.
The Massapequa Union Free School District boundary is the other line that matters more than most people outside the area realize, because it moves values in ways that do not show up in a town-wide average at all. Two houses a few hundred feet apart can sit on different sides of it.
Common questions
Do you buy in every neighborhood in Massapequa?
Yes. There is no part of the town we decline and no condition we decline.
My house is not in Massapequa. Can you still buy it?
Almost certainly, as long as it is on Long Island. We work Nassau and Suffolk and nowhere else, but we work all of both.
Will you put my address on your website?
No. We name streets at most, and never house numbers. If you would rather we did not mention the street either, say so and we will not.