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Family-owned · Venice, Florida

Buy, sell or remodel.
We make real estate simple.

Remodeled homes you can own with 5% down, fair cash offers for the house you need to sell, and a 30-person team that handles the work in between.

150+Homes bought & sold each year
30+People on the Prather team
5%Down to move in with rent-to-own
24 hrTypical turnaround on a cash offer

How we help

Three ways to move forward

Most of our neighbours come to us for one of these. Plenty end up using two.

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Homes ready for you

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Blue rent-to-own home in Osprey

Rent-to-own, done fairly

Stop renting. Start owning this year.

Banks say no to a lot of good people. Our rent-to-own program works like a mortgage you hold with us: 5% down, structured monthly payments, and the keys today.

  • Buy out any time, no penalties
  • No balloon payment, no price changes
  • 100% of your down payment goes toward the home
  • Remodel, personalise, even rent it out
See how it works

Our own crews

We don’t just flip houses. We rebuild them.

Every home we sell goes through our remodeling team first. The same crews will do your kitchen, bath or floors.

Kitchen before remodelBefore
Kitchen after remodelAfter
Kitchen, gutted and rebuilt
House exterior before remodelBefore
House exterior after remodelAfter
Whole-home exterior refresh

Vacation stays

Island homes on Casey Key, Venice & Nokomis

All stays

Book direct with our team and save versus the booking sites.

Meet the team

A Venice office, not a call centre.

Allen Prather and Jake Waelti run a family business out of 200 Tamiami Trail in Venice. Come by, see the wall of homes we’ve brought back to life, and talk it through face to face.

About Prather

Five stars on Google

Families who worked with Allen & Jake

★★★★★
Jake was extremely helpful in finding me and my husbands first home, walked us through everything and made the process as stress free as it could have been, will be calling him in the future for any help!
Olivia BarrowsGoogle review
★★★★★
Did the rent own program with Jake! He was nothing but helpful and easy to work with and in love with the property and we are intending on doing construction work together in the future!
Rafael Lopez DominguezGoogle review
★★★★★
Stopped by looking for properties. Ended up investing with this great group. If you need a rental, want to purchase, remodel or invest, this Company meets all my requirements!
Map MakerGoogle review
★★★★★
Outstanding customer service while being direct about absolutely everything! I can’t refer Allan & Jake enough.
Joesph KreitzerGoogle review
★★★★★
Jake was wonderful ! He was very helpful, and answered all my questions!! Very professional, and easy ! Would definitely recommend him and his company again !
TravisGoogle review
★★★★★
Very grateful for Jake Waelti who was an immense help in finding the perfect fit for our home. 10/10 would recommend!
Carlos ValentinoGoogle review
★★★★★
Jake made everything smooth easy and enjoyable for wonderful working with them extremely helpful would use them again
Rita GladhillGoogle review
★★★★★
Excellent company for buying and selling Homes.
Carolyn RacquetGoogle review
★★★★★
Jake was a Great help in finding the perfect home!
Nicholas GroeschelGoogle review
★★★★★
Jake was extremely helpful in finding me and my husbands first home, walked us through everything and made the process as stress free as it could have been, will be calling him in the future for any help!
Olivia BarrowsGoogle review
★★★★★
Did the rent own program with Jake! He was nothing but helpful and easy to work with and in love with the property and we are intending on doing construction work together in the future!
Rafael Lopez DominguezGoogle review
★★★★★
Stopped by looking for properties. Ended up investing with this great group. If you need a rental, want to purchase, remodel or invest, this Company meets all my requirements!
Map MakerGoogle review
★★★★★
Outstanding customer service while being direct about absolutely everything! I can’t refer Allan & Jake enough.
Joesph KreitzerGoogle review
★★★★★
Jake was wonderful ! He was very helpful, and answered all my questions!! Very professional, and easy ! Would definitely recommend him and his company again !
TravisGoogle review
★★★★★
Very grateful for Jake Waelti who was an immense help in finding the perfect fit for our home. 10/10 would recommend!
Carlos ValentinoGoogle review
★★★★★
Jake made everything smooth easy and enjoyable for wonderful working with them extremely helpful would use them again
Rita GladhillGoogle review
★★★★★
Excellent company for buying and selling Homes.
Carolyn RacquetGoogle review
★★★★★
Jake was a Great help in finding the perfect home!
Nicholas GroeschelGoogle review
Wall of before-and-after project photos in the Prather office

For investors

Put your money into real Florida homes.

Partner on our projects from a $10,000 minimum, with returns starting at 10% paid monthly or at close, secured by the property itself. We run everything start to finish.

Investor details

Talk to a real person

Buying, selling or just have a question? Call the office.