Real estate investment, rooted in the Central Coast.
Casa Fresco is a private investment company that partners with property owners and investors across residential, commercial, and industrial real estate — unlocking value in one of California's most constrained, most enduring markets.
A fresh approach to a market we know house by house.
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 off-market opportunities — residential, commercial, and industrial — across San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties, underwriting them against the region's real regulatory constraints — water, zoning, coastal review — and pursue only the projects where the numbers and the entitlements both work.
We're a new firm, and we're building deliberately. Behind Casa Fresco are a licensed real estate broker and a licensed contractor — which means we can source, underwrite, and physically build our projects in-house, with our own capital committed alongside yours.
Two ways in. One standard of execution.
Whether you're holding a property with potential or capital looking for a home, we structure partnerships that keep everyone's interests on the same side of the table.
Partner on Your Project
You own — or have identified — a residential, commercial, or industrial property in SLO or Santa Barbara County with a project in mind. We bring capital, underwriting, and execution to make it real.
- Joint-venture structures tailored to your goals: co-invest, develop, reposition, or exit
- Full feasibility work — zoning, entitlements, water and utility constraints, construction budgets
- We manage the project; you stay as involved as you want to be
- Clear waterfall, clear reporting, no surprises
Invest in Our Projects
We source and underwrite our own opportunities across the region — value-add, infill, and repositioning deals. Qualified investors can participate alongside us.
- Deal-by-deal participation — you choose what fits your goals
- Our own capital in every project, so our incentives match yours
- Planning-level underwriting shared openly before you commit
- Local, tangible assets you can drive past — not a blind pool
Four strategies, chosen for this market.
The Central Coast rewards investors who understand its constraints. Across residential, commercial, and industrial property, our strategies are built around what can actually be entitled, built, and rented here.
ADU & Unit Additions
California's ADU laws keep expanding what's possible. We add legal units to under-utilized residential parcels — built by our own in-house crews for more doors, more income, more value.
Land & Infill Development
We buy buildable lots — and know how to tell them apart from the value traps. Entitlement-savvy development in towns where housing demand outstrips supply.
Commercial & Industrial
Tired retail, office, industrial, and mixed-use assets bought below replacement cost, then re-tenanted, re-configured, or re-entitled for higher and better use — from storefronts to warehouse and flex space.
Multifamily Value-Add
Small multifamily with room to grow — renovations, added units on oversized lots, and operational upside in markets with structural rental demand.
Discipline at every step.
Most deals don't survive our underwriting. That's the point.
Source & Screen
Continuous screening of MLS and off-market opportunities across both counties — distressed sales, stale listings, estates, and motivated sellers others overlook.
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.
We don't just fund the work. We build it.
Casa Fresco's principals are contractors as well as investors. ADUs, renovations, and construction on our projects are handled in-house through our own licensed contracting operation — not bid out to whoever's available. That's a structural advantage most investment firms can't offer.
Lower Cost
No general contractor markup stacked on top of the budget. We build at contractor cost, which means more of every project dollar goes into the property — and the returns — instead of a middleman's margin.
Better Attention to Detail
The people managing the crews are the same people whose capital is in the deal. Quality gets checked by an owner, not a superintendent juggling six unrelated jobs. Our name is on the project twice — as investor and as builder.
Fewer Delays
No waiting weeks for a contractor's next opening, no schedule held hostage by someone else's backlog. Our crews mobilize on our timeline, and our budgets are built from real construction numbers — not a broker's guess.
When the investor and the builder are the same people, the incentives finally point the same direction.
Two counties. Deep local knowledge.
Supply-constrained coastal markets with durable demand — and local rules that reward investors who actually know them.
From the coast to the corridor
San Luis Obispo, Pismo Beach, Grover Beach, Arroyo Grande, Morro Bay, Los Osos, Nipomo, Atascadero, Paso Robles — markets we track parcel by parcel.
North county to the South Coast
Santa Maria, Orcutt, Lompoc, Guadalupe, Buellton, Solvang, Santa Ynez, Goleta, and Santa Barbara — from workforce housing markets to legacy coastal assets.
Under a 1031 exchange deadline? We'll find your replacement property.
Identifying the right replacement property on a fixed timeline is where exchanges succeed or fail. Tell us your requirements — price range, property type, income target, geography — and we put our continuous MLS screening and off-market sourcing to work across residential, commercial, and industrial inventory in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties.
You get a curated list of qualified candidates, underwritten against real rents and real regulatory constraints — not a raw listing dump.
We coordinate with your qualified intermediary and tax advisor throughout the exchange. Casa Fresco does not provide tax or legal advice.
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.
Have a project? Have capital? Let's talk.
Tell us a little about what you're working with. We read every message, and we'll respond personally — usually within two business days.
Serving San Luis Obispo & Santa Barbara counties, California.