A broker and a plumbing contractor, investing their own capital.
Casa Fresco is a private real estate investment company, owned and run by Sam Fox Brennan, a California real estate broker, and Eduardo Cota, co-founder of Modern Perspective Plumbing. We buy, improve and partner on residential, commercial and industrial property in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Fresno counties.
Sam Fox Brennan
California real estate broker
DRE #02178674
Sam is Vice President of Glenn Martin Company, the Arroyo Grande brokerage, where he oversees brokerage, leasing and property management. For Casa Fresco he finds the property and runs the numbers on it: recent sales, rents, zoning, water and what the building could become.
Eduardo Cota
Cota Companies LLC dba Modern Perspective Plumbing
CSLB Lic. #1102487 (C-36)
Eduardo is co-founder of Modern Perspective Plumbing, a licensed California plumbing contractor in Grover Beach. For Casa Fresco he runs estimating, budgets and field execution, so the construction number in a deal comes from the person who will run the job.
Reasons to call us
Call (530) 635-8196 or send us a message.
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Sell to us directly
You own a property in one of our three counties and would rather not list it. If it fits what we buy, we make a written offer. Casa Fresco is the buyer, a principal buying for its own account. Nobody at Casa Fresco is your agent, including Sam, a licensed broker.
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Partner on a project
You own, or have found, a property with a project in it: a second unit, a lot that can be built on, a tired building. We come in as co-owner with capital, the numbers, a construction budget and someone to run the job. If you own the property, you keep a share of the finished project.
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Find out what it is worth
Sam Fox Brennan, a California real estate broker (DRE #02178674), prepares a written broker opinion of value from recent local sales. It is not an appraisal. If you need an appraisal, he can refer you to a licensed independent appraiser.
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Replace a property in a 1031 exchange
From the day your sale closes you have 45 days to identify replacement property in writing. Sam Fox Brennan (DRE #02178674) searches all three counties, as your broker, for property that fits your price, property type and income. Casa Fresco does not provide tax or legal advice.
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For investors, there is a short note on the Work with us page.
The Central Coast and Fresno County
On the Central Coast our area runs from Paso Robles and Morro Bay down through Arroyo Grande, Santa Maria, Lompoc and the Santa Ynez Valley to Goleta and Santa Barbara. Inland it is Fresno County: Fresno and Clovis, and out through Sanger, Selma, Reedley, Kingsburg and Kerman.
Above: Santa Barbara from the courthouse tower. Photo by Photopippo, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
On the coast, supply is tight and the value comes from entitlement and construction. In Fresno County it comes from the purchase price.
What we look for
Four kinds of project, on property that can be entitled, built and rented where it sits.
- ADUs and added units Residential lots with room for a legal second unit.
- Land and infill Buildable lots in towns that are short on housing. We check water, zoning and coastal review before we price the land.
- Commercial and industrial Tired retail, office, industrial and flex buildings that can be bought for less than they would cost to build, then renovated and re-leased.
- Small multifamily Buildings that need renovation, have room for more units or are run below what they could be.
If you own a property on the Central Coast or in Fresno County, or are looking at one, send it to us. We will tell you whether we would buy it, partner on it or pass.
We read every message and respond personally, usually within two business days.
- Call(530) 635-8196
- Emailcasafrescogroup@gmail.com
- Office407 Traffic Way, Suite B, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420