Hi, I'm Sean Hess, Broker, Manager and one of the owners of St. Augustine Team Realty. Since 2004 I've donated a portion of my gross commission from every sale to a charity. When I started St. Augustine Team Realty with Ron and Kate I decided to continue the tradition. As the broker I believe it's important to support the community and people in need. The reason I do this is also a bit self-serving: I hope that you'll do business with us because we give back. I hope that by doing business with us you realize it helps the health, safety and quality of our community at no cost to you. And I hope that by doing this you refer new business to us. Below are the most recent five donations, and the total given since 2004. I also plant something green or donate $10 to a tree planting organization with every sale (read about our current Valley of Life Project).

In October of 2010 and again in 2011, to help the overall health of our community we started a company effort to raise money for Breast Cancer Research: for every listing we took in October, 5% of St. Augustine Team Realty's gross commission would go to the Susan G. Koman Foundation for the Cure. As those sales close, we'll update it here. In November 2010, we decided to do a 5% donation to Homes for Our Troops, which provides housing for disabled veterans and we did the same in November 2011. We did the same in 2010 and 2011 for Big Brother's Big Sisters of St. Johns County.

Questions? Just e-mail me.