South Tampa Homes

Daniel Haynes

Technical Sergeant USAF

JCSE MacDill AFB

To Whom It May Concern:

Please use this testimonial as my endorsement for Buster Levin toward his nomination for the Tampa Bay Real Estate Young Professional of the Year.  We recently relocated to MacDill Air Force Base and Buster helped us find a place to live and saved us thousands on our home purchase along with extending his MacDill Mover’s Rebate Program to us which saved us an additional $2500 over the $10,000 he had already saved us on the purchase price.

Colby and I would like to thank you for everything that you have done for us. The day after Christmas you were ready and waiting for us to arrive at your office and start looking for a home at our new duty location.  Having dealt with a few Realtors in our past we were skeptical and thought that we would be shown a bunch of houses that were not in our interest. You were very in tuned to our needs as a military family and are extremely knowledgeable about the military in your community. Being active duty it is quite refreshing to see someone in the local community take such good care of their military neighbors. We were almost overwhelmed with moving from North Carolina to Florida, you have made things so much easier for us by being available anytime we had a question and even better yet, knowing the answer to our questions. We were very grateful that you had found a way to keep some fiancés in our favor with your MacDill Mover’s Rebate Program. Your program made it possible for us to purchase a new home and receive a $1000 check at closing…wow! I would challenge any realtor to show as much dedication and care to what they would call clients or customers that Buster shows to his clients that he considers friends.  Outside of being an example for other Realtors to mirror, Buster is a great person to know. We could tell right away that he had an interest that extended beyond that of a realtor.  His dedication to us as people is amazing!  He has taken customer service to a whole new level in the Real Estate community.

Sincerely,

Daniel D. Haynes

Colby Haynes

To whom it may concern:

A little over a year ago I met Buster Levin at a South Tampa Chamber event.  At the time I was searching for a realtor that could help me in my search for investment rental properties in South Tampa.  I had been working with several other Realtors, but I felt they did not have my best interests at heart.  Buster seemed very knowledgeable and eager to help, so I decided to give him a shot to earn my business.

Over the next few months we kept in close touch as he showed me many houses and e-mailed me dozens of others.  Finally we found one that we wanted to make an offer on.  They were asking $119,000 and I was prepared to buy the house at $110,000.  After doing his research, he advised me that we could get the house in the mid 90’s and to be patient.  This was such a refreshing change from past realtors I had dealt with.  Most just wanted to make a sale and would’ve just gone with the $110,000 offer.

Sure enough, after several weeks of negotiating we got the house for $95,900.  Buster had saved me $14,100 on our first deal!!!  We then rehabbed the property and ended up having around what we were going to first offer, $110,000 in the house.  We got the property appraised after renovations for $175,000.  Buster made us a profit of $65,000.

Since then, Buster has successfully helped me purchase three more properties, all of which with similar results as our first deal together.  Buster is now one of only two realtors I use exclusively and is someone I trust whole heartily and I know has my best interest at heart.

In addition, Buster has helped me by finding great deals on equipment and finding me a wonderful new employee.  I would be proud to recommend him to anyone, and I’m honored to have him as a friend and business associate.   

Sincerely,

Mike L. Hooper, CFP®, CPMS
President
RentTheBay.com, LLC