It was only a $500,000 deal in a 29,915-sf building for 5,607 sf, but Stuckey had to negotiate with two separate owners to get the transaction completed at the New Port Richey Financial Center, 4821 US 19 North in New Port Richey, just north of Tampa.

"We entered into negotiations with the landlord, just as the property was being marketed for sale," Stuckey tells GlobeSt.com. "We came to business terms with the first owner, and then had to renegotiate with the new owner."

After negotiating for the space in the two-story building, "we got to business terms and submitted lease comments--and the deal fell apart for the space," the broker says. Stuckey then showed representatives of H&R Block Eastern Tax Services division a larger suite across the court yard of the first property and closed the deal on the five-year lease.