Every night, FL Finder sweeps Redfin, FSBO feeds and auction lists across Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach. It overlays RentCast AVMs, FEMA flood zones, and a 15-anchor beach grid — and surfaces the few houses that fit Danny's thesis: enjoyable in January, carrying themselves the rest of the year.
01 · Universe
4,200activeListings live across the South FL buy-box, refreshed every night from three feeds.
02 · Buy-box
~340in-band$500–600K, ≤25 min to a coastal anchor, no excessive HOA dues.
03 · Fit ≥ 60
~28surfaceCarry, livability, and beach math agree. RentCast AVM and yield within range.
04 · Shortlist
3maxHard cap of three. Forces a decision before the SMS to Kristen goes out.
Who it's for
Not a SaaS. A private finder wired between the investor making the call and the agent who books the tour.
Wants a South Florida house his family can enjoy in January and that carries itself the rest of the year — long-term tenant or seasonal rental, his pick per property.
"Move-in ready, near a beach, not a money pit. The rest is negotiable."
Toggles long-term vs seasonal income mode at the top of the board. The Fit score re-ranks live to match what he's actually willing to pay carry on.
Doesn't open the dashboard. Receives the shortlist as a pre-formatted SMS — three properties max, addresses, links, prices ready to text into MLS scheduling.
"Hey Kristen — can we see these this week?"
The shortlist is hard-capped at three. The board's job is the cut, not the conversation.
The Fit score
Every listing is scored 0–100 against the thesis: carries itself · livable today · close to the water. Shells are hard-capped at Fit 30 — distress is a different game.
The toggle is what makes Aventura and Hollywood condos with $700/mo HOAs surface for Danny — they fail long-term yield, but the lock-and-leave / pool / amenities bundle wins on seasonal blend.
What a lead looks like
The detail drawer collapses MLS facts, RentCast AVM, flood zone, neighbor rent comps, and the Fit breakdown into one screen — then puts mortgage what-iffing right under it.
Defaults to 20% down, 6.63% / 30 yr, 1.1% taxes, 0.5% insurance — the same baseline the Fit score's "Carries itself" signal uses, so the verdict line and the on-screen number always agree.
Slide down payment to 25%. Watch the verdict flip from "carries +$140/mo" to "carries +$340/mo." The rank doesn't move — sliders don't re-sort the board. That's deliberate. The board is a deterministic cut; the sliders are for the conversation about this house.
The cockpit
Every parcel is filtered, scored, and ordered before Danny opens the laptop. The interactions are about discarding noise — toggle a county, raise the Fit floor, set "no HOA", done.
Under the hood
Public listing feeds, the RentCast API, and a hand-curated 15-anchor beach grid. Cached in Upstash Redis behind a single-user auth wall.
Three listing feeds, two AVMs, one curated coastal grid.
What it doesn't do
The board surfaces candidates, not certainties. These limits are part of what keeps the Fit score trusted as the listing pool churns.
Comp-driven estimate with a stated range. Always within 8–15% of reality. Fine for ranking; never use as the basis for an offer.
×1.6 is the default for Jan–Mar season. Lower for inland, higher for direct-beach condos. The slider exists because the AVM doesn't model occupancy.
Redfin GIS is the public surface — fast, broad, sometimes lossy on photos and remarks. New listings show within hours; pulled listings drop on the next sweep.
X / AE / VE pulled via RentCast on tap. Doesn't model storm-surge, BFE, or sub-flood-zone-specific premiums. A starting point for the insurance conversation.
FL Finder is a one-off built for Danny. The pattern — nightly sweep, public-feed ingest, AVM overlay, mode-aware ranking, shortlist that texts the agent — ports to anywhere you're hunting a specific shape of house.