We Advise
Expert & Advisory Services
When complex situations require specialized expertise, litigation support, HFA strategy, distressed assets, or regulatory advocacy, we bring credentials that hold up in any room.
Available as prime consultant or subcontractor for expert testimony and advisory engagements.
Why We're Qualified
Credentials That Stand Up
Every service is backed by specific degrees, appointments, and real world experience, not just talking points.
Juris Doctor (JD)
Legal training for expert witness testimony, litigation support, and regulatory interpretation in any forum.
→ Expert Witness, Legislative Advocacy
Former MHDC Vice Chairman
Governor appointed position with insider knowledge of QAP scoring, allocation priorities, and HFA decision making.
→ HFA/QAP Strategy, Year 15 LIHTC
Former Newmark Zimmer Partner
Executive experience in commercial real estate valuation, transaction structuring, and due diligence oversight.
→ Due Diligence
Active LIHTC Developer
An active affordable housing developer: practitioner experience, not just theory.
→ Owner's Rep, Receivership
Our Services
Eight Specialized Advisory Services
Expert guidance for complex real estate situations that require specialized credentials and proven experience.
Expert Witness & Litigation Support
Credentialed expert testimony for condemnation, zoning disputes, affordable housing compliance, development agreement enforcement, and fair housing litigation.
Credential: JD + commercial real estate experience since 2007 + Former City Council Planning & Zoning Chair + Former MHDC Vice Chairman
- Condemnation & eminent domain cases
- Zoning and land use disputes
- LIHTC compliance litigation
- Fair housing expert opinions
HFA/QAP Strategy Consulting
Optimize your LIHTC application scoring with strategy from someone who sat on the other side of the table as MHDC Vice Chairman.
- QAP comment period strategy
- Application scoring optimization
- Pre application consulting
- Multi state QAP analysis
Owner's Representative Services
Independent oversight for property owners, investors, and institutions navigating affordable housing development without in house expertise or development staff.
Credential: Active developer + former Newmark Zimmer partner + HDFP/EDFP
- Development oversight & monitoring
- Draw request review
- Construction progress verification
- Lease-up milestone tracking
Year 15 LIHTC Strategy
Strategic planning for LIHTC properties approaching compliance period end, exit strategies, recapitalization options, investor buyouts, and ownership transitions.
Credential: Former MHDC Vice Chairman + active LIHTC developer
- Exit strategy development
- Recapitalization planning
- Investor buyout negotiations
- Re syndication analysis
Due Diligence & Acquisition Support
Comprehensive transaction due diligence for affordable housing acquisitions, physical condition, financial underwriting, compliance file review, and market repositioning analysis.
Credential: Former Newmark Zimmer partner transaction experience + LIHTC developer + MBA + HDFP
- Physical condition assessment
- Financial underwriting review
- Compliance file audit
- Market repositioning analysis
Grant Writing & Applications
Professional grant writing for affordable housing and community development funding, federal, state, and foundation sources.
Credential: MHDC Vice Chairman experience + 8 years on the Kansas City Council
- Federal grant applications (HOME, CDBG)
- State housing trust fund applications
- Foundation funding proposals
- City council funding requests
Receivership & Distressed Assets
Troubled property turnaround and receivership services for lenders, investors, and housing authorities with underperforming or noncompliant affordable housing assets.
Credential: Active developer + MBA + former MHDC commissioner
- Property stabilization planning
- Compliance remediation
- Management transition
- Repositioning strategy
Legislative & Regulatory Advocacy
Policy advocacy, testimony preparation, and regulatory engagement for affordable housing legislation at local, state, and federal levels, backed by eight years on the Kansas City Council.
Credential: 8 years on KC City Council + Former MHDC Vice Chairman + JD
- Legislative testimony preparation
- Policy position development
- Regulatory comment drafting
- Coalition building strategy
Ready for Expert Guidance?
Complex Situations Require Specialized Expertise
Whether you need an expert witness, HFA strategy consultant, or help turning around a distressed asset, we bring credentials that hold up in any room and results that stand on the record.
Hiring a prime consultant or building a team? We welcome both.
What We Have Done
Strategic Advisory
We do not just advise on real estate strategy; we execute it on our own developments.
Strategic Planning
Real estate strategy shaped by someone who has built the portfolio, not just the plan.
Portfolio Analysis
Portfolio reviews informed by commercial real estate advisory experience.
Asset Optimization
We know which properties are underperforming because we develop and manage our own.
Due Diligence
Due diligence led by practitioners who know what to look for because they have closed the deals.
Risk Assessment
Risk assessment from an executive who has navigated market cycles.
Exit Strategies
Disposition strategies from someone who has sat on both sides of the closing table.
Board Advisory
Board level guidance from a SAVOY Most Influential Black Executive honoree.
Development Consulting
Development advisory from a firm that is actively building its own projects.
Repositioning
Repositioning strategies from a developer who works on distressed sites in our own projects.
Built From Our Own Practice
Specialized Services
These are not consulting niches. They are sectors where we have personally closed deals, built projects, and shaped policy.
Affordable Housing Advisory
LIHTC strategy from a former MHDC Vice Chairman.
Faith Based Partnerships
We have helped congregations turn underutilized land into mixed use communities that honor their mission.
Healthcare Real Estate
Health system real estate advisory from a team developing housing alongside a planned health center.
Educational Institutions
Campus and student housing advisory from a team whose founder has served on the UMKC Board of Trustees.
Public Sector Advisory
Public partnership advisory from a team that has worked both sides, as city official and as developer.
Corporate Real Estate
Corporate portfolio strategy from an experienced commercial real estate advisor.
Why this is hard to copy
Testimony is only as good as the seats behind it
An expert is credible to the extent that the other side cannot say the work was theoretical.
The record here is a seat on a city council, the chair of its planning and zoning committee, an appointment in 2009 by Governor Jay Nixon to the Missouri Housing Development Commission, which allocates the credits, and a development company that has closed the transactions being argued about.
Each of those is documented in contemporaneous press coverage, not in a biography written afterwards. That is the part that survives cross examination.
Source: the record and the press archive, 230 clippings published between 1995 and 2025.
The evidence
What this is built on
The firm does not ask to be taken at its word. 31 accounts of the work, and the 230 published clippings written at the time, are open to read.
Our team consists of four USC-trained urban planners, plus professional degrees in architecture, law, economics, and nonprofit management.
We can’t predict the future. We can predict the room.
Public, private, nonprofit or philanthropic, we know the questions that room will ask and where a deal is likely to break. We spent our years doing the work, not writing about it, so our advice carries lived experience, practical knowledge and academic preparation.