After transitioning ownership, Tampa land dealer rolls on

Sitting in the conference room of their office on South Willow Street in Tampa, Bill Eshenbaugh and Ryan Sampson couldn’t be any more different.

Eshenbaugh, known far and wide in the commercial real estate industry as the Dirt Dog, is 80. A cowboy type in boots, jeans and a thick mustache, he’s straight out of central casting or a Larry McMurtry novel. Sampson, too, is straight out of central casting if the part calls for an standard white male in his 40s working in commercial real estate. He’s in khakis and a polo shirt.