Where our Freeport purchases have actually been
A sample of what we have bought in Freeport: a three-bedroom estate sale on north long beach avenue; a four-bedroom on westside avenue; a four-bedroom on laurel road.
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 Freeport 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 Freeport is built on comparable sales we have actually seen rather than on a formula.
What actually moves the number on a street
Two streets a few minutes apart in Freeport can carry genuinely different values, and the reasons are rarely on any listing site. Proximity to Freeport Nautical Mile or Freeport LIRR station, whether the block floods, how much of the street has been renovated in the last five years, and how the Freeport Public Schools lines fall.
That is the level we work at, and it is the reason we can hold a number rather than quoting a range and adjusting it later.
We buy in every part of Freeport
There is no part of Freeport 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 Freeport 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
Every line below is a cost of listing a house the retail way that simply does not arise here.
- Agent commission
- $33,000 at 5% of the Freeport median none
- Seller closing costs
- About $13,200 on a $660,000 sale. We can cover these. none
- Repairs to make it listable
- Whatever the house needs, paid up front none
- Cleanout and removal
- Per truckload, before anyone views it none
- Carrying costs while it waits
- Taxes, insurance and utilities across the 92 to 107 days it takes to find a buyer and then wait on their lender 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 Freeport 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.
Why we buy in Freeport
Freeport has roughly 43,713 people and a housing stock that is largely cape cod, ranch, colonial, most of it built decades ago. That combination produces a steady supply of houses where the mechanicals have aged past what an owner wants to spend on them, which is exactly the work we do.
It is also close enough to everywhere else we buy that a crew can be on site without a two-hour drive. That sounds mundane and it is the reason we can commit to a number: we know what the trades cost here because they are the same trades we use three streets away.
What we know about the local geography
Knowing a town means knowing which lines matter. In Freeport that is the Freeport Public Schools boundary, the distance to Freeport Nautical Mile, and which blocks sit low enough to take water when a storm stalls over Long Island.
None of that is available from a valuation model and all of it changes the number. It is the reason we visit every house rather than pricing from a desk, and the reason our figure tends to hold once given.
Common questions
Do you buy in every neighborhood in Freeport?
Every part of it. We have no preferred streets in Freeport and no list of ones we avoid, and condition is priced rather than used as a reason to walk away.
My house is not in Freeport. Can you still buy it?
If it is in Nassau or Suffolk, yes. Those two counties are our whole footprint, so the town you landed on does not restrict anything.
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.