He is an excellent construction advisor who was very helpful to me in a recent successful remediation of a university student housing deal. My company has used him numerous times when faced with facility, construction and capital expenditure issues in projects financed by our insured bonds. In my student housing workout Steve came in to assess and make recommendations about structural problems with sagging floors and weakened braces in a number of buildings which needed to be fixed for student safety and in order to reopen rooms, improve cash flow and to bring the buildings into compliance for sale to an investing group. Steve has a wide range of contacts in the industry and in combination with his attention to detail and cost was able to put together an extremely cost-effective solution. After assessing the damaged buildings, he discussed them with an engineer who drew up plans to correct the structural flaws, discussed solutions with the housing project’s management company, developed an RFP for local contractors; personally interviewed, negotiated contracts and managed local contractors to undertake the work (at a fraction of estimates provided by large national construction and management companies) and was extremely responsive to my company’s concerns. His services are reasonably priced and he was a pleasure to work with.
