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May 10, 2018
2 min

New Business Who Dis?

So I know it's been a long time since I've written a blog post and I'm sorry for that. Many of you reached out to tell me these posts are inspirational and informative. We plan to not take a hiatus like that again. With that said, a lot has changed over the last 5 months in my business and I'd like to share some of that with you. The biggest elephant in the room... CC Solutions is dead. The four amigos who originally built the groundwork for this company have split apart and

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Featured Property!
234 Paris Street, Boston, Ma

Christian Chasmer

Jun 27, 2017
2 min

Featured Property! 234 Paris Street, Boston, Ma

This project represents the future of our company! As we are closing out our single family properties, we are turning our focus on properties just like Paris street, 1-5 Unit condos in and around great Boston! Harrison Bonner found this property through a fellow fortune builder member. Our renovation budget did go up a bit from the original estimate as we added roof top decks and had to sister all of the floor joists through the house. But, our ARV has been bumped up due to r

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Featured Property!
192 Main Street, West Newbury, Ma

Christian Chasmer

Jun 1, 2017
2 min

Featured Property! 192 Main Street, West Newbury, Ma

We just couldn't resist renovating another single family! We are dwindling down the amount of single families we renovate as we are moving to focus on condo conversions in and around Boston, but this one we couldn't pass up. Our hardworking Acquisition Specialist, Greg Cammarata, found this gem through MLS and jumped on it. His initial numbers (renovation and ARV) were almost 100% spot on; we actually were under our renovation budget. This project went under contract in less

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Small Talk Passes Time, Big Talk Builds Relationships

Kevin Martignetti

May 30, 2017
1 min

Small Talk Passes Time, Big Talk Builds Relationships

This week in Team Education we watched a Ted Talk which taught us to have powerful conversations in lieu of insignificant small talk. We’ve all sat through the agonizing time filler known as “small talk”. It’s one of those things that most people don’t like to do, but they feel like they have to. Everyone has been in a conversation and felt the only way to keep it alive is to ask questions such as: How are the kids? Where are you from? Wow, it’s a beautiful day outside, hu

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Featured Property! 15 - 17 Merrill Street, NewburyPort, Ma

Christian Chasmer

May 22, 2017
2 min

Featured Property! 15 - 17 Merrill Street, NewburyPort, Ma

What happens when you jump into a condo conversion on a property built in 1825 that has $350,000 in renovations without ever doing one before? You learn a lot! We decided to jump into this deal with no real experience in the condo conversion world and we definitely learned a ton through the fire. After almost a year, (and 3 contractors) this beautiful project is finally finished and on the market! One of the two units is already under contract and we expect the other one to g

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How this one simple “Routine” elevated our real estate business to over $6 million.

Christian Chasmer

Apr 27, 2017
3 min

How this one simple “Routine” elevated our real estate business to over $6 million.

I will never forget when Alex and I decided to start CC Solutions. We quit our jobs, bought a tri-plex, and started CC Solutions in the same week. After the extremely busy period of transitioning out of our old job, closing on and painting our new tri-plex (yes we prepped and painted the entire house ourselves), and moving into that same tri-plex, we were ready to conquer the real estate world! Only problem, we didn’t know what the hell we were doing. While we ran a division

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Harrison Bonner

Nov 4, 2016
3 min

"Celeb shot!" - Take the leap

"Celeb shot!" Anyone between the ages of 18 and 30 have most likely either heard or said these words in an innocent game of beer pong, and that is exactly what has happened with our blog post this week. (For anyone who doesn't know, it essentially means guest appearance.) Our usual amazing and dedicated writer, Alex Cwiakala, has a very full plate this week so our team has been kind enough to grant me the privilege to write our weekly real estate blog today. As I was thinking

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Alex Cwiakala

Sep 12, 2016
2 min

Dance with the city skyline

Just this week, I learned that putting a skyscraper into the air is slightly more attainable than I thought. If that isn't a crazy sentence I don't know what is. Hear me out... I've always dreamed of putting a big building in the air... in a way I think we all have. It would be pretty cool right. Let me give you a glimpse into what I learned about this week while meeting a new mentor. What I am about to tell you would be considered a stepping stone to putting up the next luxu

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Alex Cwiakala

Aug 22, 2016
2 min

The Roast Of Greg Cammarata

Welcome back to our blog! I've decided to post every Monday so put it in your calendar! Today I want to dedicate this article to Greg Cammarata, our very own intern for the last 12 weeks. Let me introduce you to Greg, a stud with great hair. Personality is his strong suit, he could sell ice to an Eskimo and his known in the office for having uncontrollable laugh attacks (video below). Greg is a rising junior at Bentley University and joined our team at the end of May, 2016. H

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Buy a house. Quit your job. Start a business... In the same week.

Alex Cwiakala

Aug 16, 2016
2 min

Buy a house. Quit your job. Start a business... In the same week.

Let me take this moment to introduce myself and thank you for taking the time to visit our blog. The last 10 months have been a culmination of grit, drive and team development. In October of 2015, Christian Chasmer and myself quit our full-time time jobs to pursue a full-time career in real estate investing. The same week we closed on a 3-family rental property. Most would consider that backwards thinking. As we have grown, people ask what would make us do something like this

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