A fresh approach to markets we know house by house.
We screen hundreds of listings across two California regions, and the properties that come to us directly, and underwrite each against the constraints that actually govern it, and pursue only the projects where the numbers and the entitlements both work.
Casa Fresco was founded on a simple observation: the Central Coast is full of properties with untapped potential, and full of people who own them — or want to own a piece of them — but lack a partner with the discipline to execute.
We are that partner. We screen hundreds of listings, and the properties that come to us directly, — residential, commercial, and industrial — across San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Fresno counties, underwriting each against the constraints that actually govern it: water, zoning, and coastal review on the Central Coast; basis, rehab cost, and resale depth in the Central Valley. We pursue only the projects where the numbers and the entitlements both work.
We build deliberately, and we build in-house. Behind Casa Fresco are a licensed real estate broker and a licensed contractor — which means we source, underwrite, and physically build our projects ourselves, with our own capital committed alongside yours.
Discipline at every step.
Most deals don't survive our underwriting. That's the point.
Source & Screen
Continuous MLS screening in both regions — our brokerage side carries Realtor association and MLS membership on the Central Coast and in the Central Valley, so we see distressed sales, stale listings, estates, and trustee and probate sales first-hand rather than second-hand.
Underwrite Hard
Planning-level budgets, current rent and sale comps, and the regulatory layer most buyers miss: water availability, coastal zones, moratoriums, and state housing law.
Structure & Execute
Clean legal structures with aligned incentives, then hands-on execution — entitlements, construction management, leasing — by principals, not a distant back office.
Deliver & Report
Transparent reporting from acquisition through exit or stabilization. You'll always know where the project stands and where your capital sits.
Principals with skin in the game.
Casa Fresco is owned and operated by its two founding partners — a real estate broker and a licensed contractor. Every project is underwritten, structured, built, and managed by the people whose names are on the LLC.
Sam Fox Brennan
Sam is a licensed California Real Estate Broker (DRE #02178674) and Vice President of Glenn Martin Company, a full-service brokerage serving the Central Coast for more than twenty years, where he oversees day-to-day brokerage, leasing, and property management operations. A Cal Poly graduate, he grew up working in his family's agricultural business in Woodland, California — a background in sales, operations, and hard assets that shapes how Casa Fresco sources, underwrites, and manages every deal.
Eduardo Cota
Eduardo is co-founder of Modern Perspective Plumbing, a licensed, bonded, and insured California general (B) and plumbing (C-36) contractor (Cota Companies LLC, CA Lic. #1102487) based in Grover Beach, with dedicated service and new-construction divisions working across San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties — from residential renovations to ground-up commercial builds. He runs estimating, budgets, and field execution for Casa Fresco projects, which means our construction numbers come from a builder, not a spreadsheet.
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