Picture this—You’ve just spent hundreds if not thousands of dollars on inspections, an appraisal, the down payment, and the closing cost for a new home. A few months later, you find yourself without heat in the dead of winter.

As if the bitter cold inside your home isn’t bad enough, you then discover that all of the frustration and the additional expenses could’ve been avoided, had your realtor simply clued you in on a home warranty.

This story is all too real for Leo Jean-Baptiste, the founder of Curb + Key, who faced this exact situation when purchasing a home a few years ago. Since then, Leo has committed to ensuring the same doesn’t happen for other home buyers. Keep reading for the inside scoop on how the Curb + Key team is making a difference for you and the Tampa Bay community.

Who We Are

Leo Jean-Baptiste, Realtor on Facebook is now Curb + Key Realty. Although by definition, Curb + Key Realty is a real estate team in the Tampa Bay area, Leo Jean-Baptiste created the business with much more in mind than just selling houses or handling property for sale.

“We’re launching this team to offer something a little different to the real estate buyer and seller,” Leo says.

How does Leo plan to ensure a property buying and selling experience for his clients unlike anything else? The Curb + Key mission, “to provide the level of service and professionalism we would expect if we were in the process of buying or selling a home,” begins to capture a glimpse of the brand’s beliefs.

Curb + Key is focused on forming relationships with clients, rather than what’s being put in their pockets. With the idea that a client well-served will have the biggest impact on business, The Curb + Key realtors commit themselves to form bonds with clients and lifelong relationships.

“We want to be the realty group that takes care of you through various home-owning and renting stages,” Leo explains. “We want to help whatever phase of the buying cycle you’re in—we’re not looking at the one transaction.”

Our Beliefs

Curb + Key Realty is more than just a group of realtors working under the same name. At Curb + Key, their beliefs drive their business. The main ideology of Curb + Key is simple—they focus on putting relationships with clients above revenue gained from transactions.

“I believe in adding value in treating clients as I would like to be treated if I was buying or selling my home,” Says Leo.

The business’s beliefs can be broken down into the five Curb + Key Company Culture Keys:

1. Relationships over revenue

2. Addicted to adding value by serving others

3. Obsessed with personal development

4. The passionate pursuit of goals

5. Persevere with a positive mindset

Our Agents

The heartbeat of the culture Leo is building with Curb + Key is for each realtor to place people before profit—instead of vice versa. For instance, all Curb and Key agents are full-time agents. Each realtor takes his or her role within the business and as an agent very seriously, dedicating the time and effort to hone their craft and to be the best.

“Our vision is to bring on the best and brightest agents that are obsessed with providing client-centered service,” Leo explains. “We aim to be the team that serves the Tampa Bay market with the highest level of customer service and results based, data-driven strategies.”

The business works with their agents, hand in hand, to help each one build a successful practice. As Leo explains, Curb + Key assists the individuals in creating, developing, and growing a business strong enough to start a legacy.

How We Are Making An Impact

Curb + Key Realty is not only committed to each unique real estate client looking for houses for sale, homes for rent, or hoping to sell a property. Rather, the Curb + Key group dedicates time to educating clients as well as assisting within the community.

Key Cares - Education

Knowing firsthand the difficulty of blindly committing to real estate deals, Leo strives to avoid similar situations for his own clients. Leo and his team believe knowledge is power. Because of this, the group is committed to educating each of their clients, allowing clients to make empowered and smart decisions—the best decisions for them and their family.

Providing useful materials and unparalleled knowledge, the Curb + Key team stands by clients throughout both the buying and selling processes, keeping clients involved and aware from start to finish.

“We see ourselves as more of an assistant or help to make the process go right,” Leo elaborates. “A lot of people don’t know what to expect, so they take whatever they can get.”

To ensure clients stay as well-informed as possible, Leo and his team regularly publish new blogs and videos about the buying and selling processes to the Curb + Key site. Additionally, the team holds quarterly workshops for those who are considering buying or selling a property but have not yet made any moves, and they provide a buyer’s guide on request.

Key Cares - Community

With a love for Tampa Bay and the community, Curb + Key strive to give back at every opportunity.

“We are not like other teams we want to make a positive impact in the communities we serve every day in addition to our bi-annual Key Cares event,” Leo says.

Because of this, Leo launched the community portion of the Key Cares initiative. As part of this endeavor, the realty group adopts a classroom in the Tampa Bay area for every house one of their realtors sell. Adopting a classroom in the area allows the Curb + Key Realty group to financially assist with supplying school necessities and supplies that teachers would otherwise need to pay for out of their own pockets.

Ready to open the door to what’s next? Let the team at Curb + Key help you find a home or sell a home today!