Meet your broker
Nicholas Rapisardi
Broker · simpliHōM, Florida statewide · Sarasota & the Gulf Coast
A Maine coast upbringing, a Boston detour, and seventeen years of Florida real estate — all pointed at one thing: helping people land in the right place on this coast, with nothing glossed over.
Knowledge | Integrity | Trust
The story
From a Maine harbor
to the Gulf Coast.
Nicholas grew up on the coast of Maine, built a career in Boston, and moved to Sarasota for the same reason most of his clients do — the water, the light, and a life that feels a little less hurried. Everything he knows about this market, he learned the long way.
Audio Production, Boston
An associate degree spent training his ear. It is still the skill he leans on most — hearing what a client actually wants, not what they first said.
Founded an interior painting company
Running his own trade business taught him how homes are put together, what finish work really costs, and how to show up when he says he will.
Licensed in the middle of the recession
He got his licence for one reason: to help families caught in the downturn. The early years were short sales, foreclosures, first-time buyers and investors — the hardest school there is.
New construction, from the slab up
A stretch with a local homebuilder walking the full build process, so he can read a floor plan, a spec sheet and a builder contract for what they truly are.
Keller Williams — and mentoring
Coaching newer agents is what pushed him to earn his Broker licence, and it is why clients get answers rather than opinions.
B.A. Leadership Studies, USF
With a minor in business administration. Clear communication, done on purpose, is the whole job.
Broker for simpliHōM, statewide Florida
Based in Sarasota, serving the Gulf Coast from Bradenton down through Venice — and licensed to help anywhere in the state.
“I would rather tell you a house is wrong for you and keep looking, than watch you talk yourself into it.”
Nicholas Rapisardi
Knowledge | Integrity | Trust
Three words, and
what they cost me.
Anyone can print values on a website. These are the three I am willing to lose a deal over — and what they actually look like on a Tuesday afternoon, standing in somebody’s kitchen on the Gulf Coast.
If that sounds like the way you want this handled, the first conversation costs nothing.
Call 941-735-0244Knowledge
Short sales through a recession, new construction walked from the slab up, and seventeen years on this coastline. I can tell you why one street holds its value and the next one does not, and what a builder’s contract is really promising you.
Integrity
If the house is wrong, I say so out loud. If the price is wrong, I bring the comparables instead of the enthusiasm. You get the inconvenient version first — every time, even when it costs me the sale.
Trust
Most of my business comes from people who have already moved with me once, or from their neighbours. That only works if I am still worth calling a year after closing. So I answer my own phone.
2009Licensed/17 yrsOn this coast/9Communities/StatewideFlorida broker
Where I work
Nine communities,
one coastline.
From the barrier islands to the ranch communities inland, each of these places has its own rhythm, its own price story and its own reason people stay. I live here, and I show up in all of them.
Not sure which one fits the life you are picturing? That conversation is free, and it usually saves people a season of looking in the wrong place.
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Tell me what you are looking for on the Gulf Coast — or what you are thinking of selling — and I'll come back to you personally.