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Sell · For investor sellers

The market shifted.
Your strategy must too.

Days-on-market is climbing across Tampa Bay. The "post-and-pray" listing playbook — sign in the yard, MLS upload, hope — costs you weeks of carry, and weeks compound. We use a high-velocity marketing protocol that manufactures buyer demand within the first 168 hours of listing.

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The reality

Why traditional listings fail in today’s market.

The "post-and-pray" method — yard sign, MLS upload, open house, hope — worked when demand was frantic. Today, with rising inventory and buyers who scroll instead of attend, that strategy leads to stagnation.

We operate on a philosophy of demand compression. By front-loading marketing capital and concentrating buyer attention into the first 168 hours of your listing, we manufacture density of interest that mimics a seller's market — generating maximum attention arbitrage before days-on-market starts working against your asking price.

The protocol

How we manufacture demand for your property.

01

Visual merchandising — the listing IS the showing.

85%+ of buyers will see your property online before they ever visit. If they don't click on the thumbnail, they don't visit at all. We don't take photos — we capture a feeling.

  • Twilight "hero" imagingPrimary photos at dusk with all interior lights illuminated. Triggers a deep psychological response of warmth and shelter that statistically stops the Zillow scroll.
  • Cinematic videoLandscape tours plus vertical reels for Instagram and TikTok. Static photos document a house; video sells the lifestyle.
  • Hybrid stagingVirtual staging for online listings paired with physical "phantom staging" displays. Bridges the cognitive gap; cost-effective vs. full furnishing.
  • Pro staging when warrantedFor vacant properties where the room scale needs anchoring, full professional installation. We coordinate, you don't lift a finger.
02

Digital warfare — we hunt your buyer.

Organic reach is dead. Most agents post to their personal Facebook and hope for likes. We use ad-tech infrastructure purpose-built to put your listing in front of the people most likely to buy it — based on behavior, income, location, and life events.

  • Geofencing competitorsVirtual fences around competing open houses, luxury leasing offices, and country clubs. Buyers entering those zones get ads for your home for 30 days.
  • Cross-platform retargetingOnce a buyer views your listing on Zillow or our site, ads follow them across CNN, ESPN, Weather.com, and streaming TV (Hulu).
  • Feeder-market targeting"Tax refugees" in NY, NJ, CA who view Tampa as a comparative bargain — we target them directly with FL-specific messaging.
  • Investor-specific targetingFor STR-suitable properties, we reach existing Airbnb hosts looking to expand. Different audience, different message — same listing.
03

The mega open house — engineered, not passive.

A sign in the yard is passive. We engineer an event. Sensory marketing, "Pick Your Neighbor" pre-marketing campaigns, and a tight visit window concentrate buyer foot traffic into hours rather than days — creating social proof and FOMO that drives competing offers.

04

Global syndication — your buyer might be in Brazil.

Tampa Bay attracts international capital — particularly from Brazil, Canada, the UK, and India. We syndicate every listing to international portals (Fang.com, Properstar) and translate the listing into 19 languages so language never blocks an offer.

Why investor sellers work with me

Selling investment property is different. The agent should be too.

The marketing protocol above gets you maximum sale price. Equally important — and often missed — is the timing, tax positioning, and structural side of the sale. Three things investor sellers need that homeowner sellers usually don't.

1031 exchange timing

If you're rolling proceeds into another investment property to defer capital gains, the 45-day identification and 180-day close clocks start the day your current property closes. Coordinating the listing timeline with your replacement-property search is something most agents don't do because most clients don't ask. Investor sellers should always ask.

Depreciation recapture flag

If you've been depreciating a rental property for several years, the IRS will recapture that depreciation at 25% on sale (separate from capital gains). Depending on your basis, this can be a meaningful five-figure number you didn't budget for. We flag it before you list so you can model the net, not just the gross.

Lower commissions for investors

As an investor-focused practice, I offer reduced seller commissions for investors planning multiple transactions and rebates for buyers in 1031 swaps. Specifics vary by deal size and side — happy to talk numbers on a 15-minute call.

STR-specific listing positioning

If your property is a turnkey STR with active bookings, the buyer pool isn't homeowners — it's investors. We market it as a business: trailing-twelve-month revenue, occupancy, ADR, DBPR license status, comparable AirROI projections. Different buyers; different language.

Cap-rate-driven asking price

For investment property, the right asking price is the one where the buyer's expected cap rate is competitive given current debt costs. We model that explicitly — DSCR sensitivity at multiple rate scenarios — rather than just pricing to recent comps and hoping.

Existing tenant + lease handling

Selling an occupied long-term rental adds layers — disclosure requirements, showing access, lease-transfer mechanics, tenant cooperation. We coordinate around the tenant to maintain rapport while running the marketing protocol full throttle.

Commission structure

Three ways to list. Pick the one that fits.

Every property is different. Some need full white-glove marketing; others are turnkey STRs that mostly sell themselves to investor buyers. The structure should match the work.

Option 01

Flex

1.5% listing side

Best for: turnkey STRs with strong recent revenue, or investor-to-investor sales where the buyer pool is small and motivated.

  • Full-time professional agents
  • Cancel-anytime guarantee
  • Professional photography
  • 3D tour, floor plans, drone aerials
  • MLS + investor-network direct marketing
★ Most popular
Option 02

Premium

2.0% listing side

Best for: most investor sellers. The full marketing protocol that compresses days-on-market and supports asking-price discipline.

  • Everything in Flex
  • "Pay 0% buyer agent fee" option *
  • Paid social media ad campaign (FB / IG)
  • Premium portal placements (Zillow Showcase, Homes.com Boost, Realtor.com Premium)
  • Professional staging (Premium tier)
  • Optional concierge prep
Option 03

Platinum

2.5% listing side

Best for: complex situations — occupied long-term rentals, 1031 timing constraints, multi-unit, out-of-state owners who need full management.

  • Everything in Premium
  • Luxury professional staging
  • Concierge prep & repairs
  • Pre-listing appraisal
  • Pre-listing 4-point inspection

* "Pay 0% buyer agent fee" applies if Santy personally finds a buyer for your home without another agent involved. The buyer-side commission is otherwise negotiated separately as part of each offer based on current Tampa Bay market conditions and your timeline. Repeat-investor clients and 1031-exchange roll-overs get additional structure flexibility.

Free valuation

What's your Tampa Bay investment property worth?

24-hour turnaround. No automated estimate — a real read from a 15-year FL investor with eyes on the local market every day. No obligation, no high-pressure follow-up.

Performance based

Cancel anytime. No long-term handcuffs.

We believe so strongly in the high-velocity protocol that we operate on a strict performance basis. No 6-month exclusive contracts that lock you in if the strategy isn't working. If we're not delivering value, you cancel — no questions, no penalty.

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