Meet Mike Meza.
Broker at Sotheby's International Realty in Carmel. Managing broker of Cypress & Pine. Over $125 million in career sales volume, all of it on this peninsula.
Why a broker started a management company.
The same conversation kept happening after closings. A client would buy a second home and not want it sitting empty. Or inherit a house in Pacific Grove and not be ready to sell it. Or move for work and want to keep the Carmel property for a few years to see what the market did.
Every one of them asked the same thing: what do I actually do with this? And the honest answer needed both halves. You cannot answer it without knowing what the property would sell for, and you cannot execute the answer without being able to manage the property properly. Nobody local was doing both well.
So Cypress & Pine exists to close that gap. The management work is done to a standard that stands on its own. But the reason to hire this firm rather than another one is that the person running it can tell you what the house is worth, what it would sell for, what the comparable rentals actually leased at, and which of those facts should change your mind.
What that looks like in practice.
Your tenant gives notice. A normal manager sends you a re-lease recommendation. Here you get that plus a read on the last six months of sales on your street, what a furnished thirty day tenancy would produce at your address, and a straight opinion on whether this is the year to sell instead. Usually it is not. When it is, you will hear it.
An owner asks whether to add a bathroom. A normal manager gets three bids. Here the first question is whether the water management district will issue a permit, the second is whether the coastal development permit is achievable, and the third is whether the added rent justifies the cost given what the property would sell for either way.
Credentials.
- Broker Associate, Sotheby's International Realty, Carmel
- Managing Broker, Cypress & Pine Property Management, DRE #02007491
- Over $125 million in career sales volume on the Monterey Peninsula
- Office in Carmel, inside the thirty minute response radius that Pacific Grove and unincorporated Monterey County require of short term rental licensees
- Lives on the Peninsula
On size. This firm is deliberately built so that owners deal with a principal rather than a queue. As it grows, that stays true by adding managers, not by adding layers between you and the person responsible for your property. You will always know whose phone rings.
What should your property actually earn?
A written rental analysis, delivered within one business day. Real leased comparables, the fee you would pay in dollars, and a straight recommendation.
- Recommended rent, supported by comparables rather than an online estimate
- What a furnished thirty day tenancy would produce at your address
- Current market value, using Sotheby's comparable sales
- An honest answer, including if the answer is that you should not hire us
Request your analysis
Free, and no sales sequence afterward.