Construction and development consulting for corporate real estate teams, HOAs, institutional owners, and private equity. Independent oversight, board-level reporting, and 30 years of experience that has been on every side of every deal.
Most Organizations Own Real Estate. Very Few Have Anyone Who Actually Understands It.
Your legal team knows contracts. Your finance team knows the numbers. Your property manager knows the tenants. Nobody in that room has read a contractor bid the way a contractor writes it, walked a property and known immediately what the deferred maintenance is actually going to cost, or sat across from a regulator and fought for a different outcome.
That gap is where institutional money disappears. Not in dramatic failures. In the slow bleed of decisions made by people who know their lane and nothing outside of it.
I fill that gap. I work for the owner. That does not change based on who else is in the room.
Real Example · HOA Capital Planning
220-unit community. $700 per unit per month. Maintenance reserve sitting at 1%, the number someone picked years ago because it sounded reasonable and nobody had challenged it since.
The board knew they had deferred maintenance. They did not know what it was actually going to cost, in what order it needed to happen, or whether their current funding could get them there without a special assessment that would have been painful and politically difficult.
I walked every inch of the property. Built a long-term repair and maintenance plan that sequenced the work by urgency, impact on property value, and cost. Showed the board exactly which repairs directly protected and increased unit values, the kind of numbers an HOA board can take to residents and defend.
The result: reserves moved from 1% to 3%. The increase paid for itself because several of the repairs qualified for insurance premium reductions once completed. The board got a funded, sequenced plan instead of a crisis. Residents got protected values instead of a surprise assessment.
That is what it looks like when someone who understands construction sits down with an organization that owns property but doesn't build it.
What I Do For Corporate and Institutional Clients
Owner's Rep and Project Oversight
Embedded oversight on your projects with direct reporting to your leadership or board. I protect your interests at every phase — design, bidding, construction, and closeout. Your contractors know someone who understands the work is watching. That changes everything.
Capital Planning and Reserve Analysis
I assess what your properties actually need, sequence it by urgency and impact, and build a funded plan your board can defend. No more guessing at reserve percentages. No more deferred maintenance becoming a crisis.
Pre-Acquisition Construction Assessment
Before you close on a property, I tell you exactly what you are buying. Real deferred maintenance numbers. Real capital improvement costs. The information your pro forma needs to be honest.
Bid Review and Scope Development
I read contractor bids the way a contractor writes them. I find what is missing, what is padded, and what becomes a change order the moment work starts. Most clients find more than my fee in the first review alone.
Institutional Portfolio Evaluation
Property condition assessments, deferred maintenance planning, and capital improvement scoping across multiple assets. I have reported findings directly to NYSE-listed REIT boards. I know what institutional accountability looks like.
Expert Witness and Dispute Documentation
Independent expert opinion, estimates, and documentation for insurance companies, attorneys, and organizations navigating construction defect claims or contractor disputes.
The Track Record
I served as construction consultant to a publicly traded NYSE-listed REIT evaluating 25-plus properties averaging $30 million each, reporting findings directly to the board at weekly meetings. On one repositioning I caught incomplete structural engineering, missing windstorm specifications, permit documentation gaps, and material lead time issues, all on a project that had already been signed off by the people whose job it was to catch it.
None of it was caught by the engineers, the project managers, or the contractors bidding the work.
I have developed over a million square feet of retail space and hundreds of thousands of square feet of office space. Golf courses, marinas, medical facilities, financial institutions, national retail tenant buildouts. 500 commercial projects. Every asset class. Every scale.
Insurance companies and attorneys hire me as an expert witness on construction defect claims because I have been on every side of every type of construction project that exists.
How It Works
Tell me what you are managing, what you are trying to accomplish, and what is keeping your board or leadership up at night. I will tell you honestly whether I can help and what that looks like.
Engagements are structured to fit the work, a one-time assessment, a defined project scope, an ongoing retainer, or board-level reporting. No cookie-cutter packages. The scope matches the problem.
TESTIMONIALS
"We saved time and money every time we work with Jeph."
— David Blankenship, R.E.I.T. Board Member
"I thought for sure we would lose everything in a lawsuit but then you came in and really changed everything."
— Emily Rothstein, Construction Manager, R.E.I.T. Houston
"Jeph has a wealth of real estate consulting experience and has proven to be very adept in a variety of real estate situations. His depth of knowledge always amazes me. His greatest quality is being a straight shooter, he really does have his clients' interests above all else, and that's really rare to come by."
— Anthony T., Investor / Entrepreneur
CLOSING
Every day an institutional asset operates without the right construction expertise in the room is a day decisions are being made blind.
Bad bids go unchallenged. Deferred maintenance becomes a crisis. Capital gets spent in the wrong order on the wrong things.
I have spent 30 years learning what that costs. Let me put that to work for your organization.