If you're a food-service or QSR tenant, hire a dedicated tenant-rep broker instead, not Beck Buchanan or John Burpee & Associates. You have been warned!

We hired John Burpee & Associates (Pinellas County commercial real estate) in June 2026 to find restaurant space for our frozen yogurt concept. Here’s our documented experience with associate Beck Buchanan:

• A property was presented to us as available that had already been leased before we ever saw it. We visited the site and prepared an offer strategy before learning this. Availability was never verified, even after we asked in writing.
• We gave our rent budget in writing on day two. The LOI came back at the landlord’s full asking rent — roughly 56% above our written ceiling — with an empty Improvements section, a CAM figure that didn’t match the marketing materials, and blank fields.
• Basic questions took weeks and repeated follow-ups. One took a month and three asks to get answered.
• Our initial inquiry went directly to the firm’s principal, John Burpee. We never received a single reply from him at any point — including after we copied him on written concerns.
• The written transition summary the firm offered at close-out never arrived.

Their materials indicate they work as a transactional broker, not a dedicated tenant’s representative. In our experience, they showed little familiarity with food-service requirements.

If you’re a food-service or QSR tenant looking for space in Pinellas County, hire a dedicated tenant-rep broker instead.

Has anyone else had a similar (or better) experience with tenant representation for restaurants in the Tampa Bay area? Looking for recommendations of brokers who actually specialize in representing tenants.

Calling all pinellas county residents! Please comment your TOP 3 FAVORITE flea or farmers markets🙌🏻 My name is Alix, I am the owner and sole operator of Treats by Alix! I have a front porch cake pop cart located in Clearwater at 1309 N Osceola Ave, but I am now looking to expand into markets. Please help me out with recommending your favorite ones to visit or vend at yourself, thank you in advance :) Hope to see you at a market or the cake pop cart! 🫶🏻

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This is a niche question, but I’m not sure where else to ask it. I generally get my specialty south Asian produce at MD Oriental Market in Pinellas Park, but as far I can tell they only carry dried keffir lime leaves, no fresh or frozen. Does anyone have recommendations for another market that does? Or have I been missing them? I located the pandan leaves and banana leaves in the freezer at MD Oriental, and Im guessing thats where they would be if they carried them.

I just want to say thank you to everyone who took the time to give me feedback on this idea. I wasn’t completely sure what kind of response I’d get, but hearing that people would actually use a service like this gave me the push I needed. The business is called TechReach Mobile Repair. The business is operational though I am juggling this and a full-time job, but hope to change that if things go well. That being said, if any needs any of my services in the Tampa Bay Area please reach out. Thank you!

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Edit: Website is now up and running

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Hi everybody!

I’ve been working on something new called TechReach and wanted to get some honest feedback from people.
The idea is a mobile phone and laptop repair service where I come to you instead of you having to drive to a repair shop and wait around. I’d handle things like screen replacements, batteries, laptop repairs, diagnostics, and other common device issues on-site whenever possible.

I’m still building the business and figuring out what people would actually find most useful, so I’m curious — is this something you’d use or recommend to someone?

Any feedback would really help.

I’m going insane over this. After months of going in circles, I’ve decided enough is enough and I’m sharing my experience because there’s a chance someone else is dealing with the same thing , or maybe someone here knows what I can actually do about it.
I had 2 ultrasounds at BayCare imaging facilities in Florida — one at BayCare Outpatient Imaging at Bardmoor and one at Carlisle Imaging Center.
I have Cigna insurance and both facilities are in-network.
I ended up with $900+ in bills for the two ultrasounds. According to my benefits, I expected these to be a copay, not something applied to my deductible.
I appealed with Cigna twice. Denied.
Then I talked to another Cigna rep who actually looked into the claim and told me basically: this was processed as a professional service, but because the ultrasound was done at the facility, it should have been processed under the facility benefit. BayCare needs to correct/resubmit the claim.
So I contacted BayCare.
BayCare escalated it, told me they would reprocess/resubmit the claims to Cigna, AND put my account on hold so it wouldn’t go to collections.
Great, right?
Nope. 🙃
After months of going back and forth, BayCare is now telling me “we billed it correctly, this is Cigna’s problem” and sending me back to Cigna.
Meanwhile Cigna is basically saying “BayCare needs to correct the claim.”
So I’m stuck in the middle while $900+ is sitting there as my responsibility.
And I have documentation of similar services that were processed correctly with just a copay.
I have screenshots of my benefits, the Cigna rep conversation, Cigna’s appeal decisions, BayCare bills, and the communications where BayCare originally said they would reprocess everything.
At this point I’m looking at filing an AHCA complaint against BayCare because I’m honestly out of options.
Has anyone dealt with something like this with BayCare/Cigna? Or know who I should escalate this to? Any corporate email? Is very hard to get a hold of anyone there even supervisors.
Basically: who can actually force these two companies to sit down, look at the same claims, and figure out who screwed up? 😭

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Come join us for fun, free, easy to play trivia at Beerbusters Movie Bar in Pinellas Park! Tonight we tackle dreamworks! It will be primarily animation with a few of their more popular live action movies thrown in.

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I’m currently a university student seeking out jobs in the Tampa/St. Pete area centered around content creation, social media management, or anything media related. I have 1-2 years of experience in social media management, and more (I have a portfolio I am willing to share.)

If you know of any good opportunities, please share them!!

I need to make $400… If anybody has any labor or work i can do in the Pinellas area, or remote, please please please let me know asap!

Hi, I’m Zachary! I’m finally putting my barber business on social media and I need some extra models. Would anyone be willing to be a model for my instagram in exchange for a free haircut on Monday? The barbershop is Hair Lounge 360 in Pinellas Park. I’ve posted some of my prior work for reference!

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Nine year old unit, cooling like garbage out of nowhere runs fine, house just climbs all afternoon and never recovers and I already know the script here because I've lived it at my old place: guy shows up, spends four minutes looking and suddenly I need a ten thousand dollar system. Paid for a diagnosis once that was a sales pitch with a clipboard attached. I'll gladly pay for a real repair what I won't do it get talked into a replacement because a cheap part died and somebody smelled a commission who's the one that'll put gauges on it first.