The firm that runs your building should know how to maximize its value.
Roark manages apartment communities across the Midwest and brokers them when it is time to trade. The same team that reads your rent roll every Monday writes the offering memorandum.
Full-service management, building by building.
We take on communities from 12 units to 400 — lease-up, turns, delinquency, capital projects, and an owner statement you can actually reconcile. One regional manager, one maintenance bench, no call center.
- Leasing, renewals, and lease-up
- Maintenance and 24/7 emergency response
- Financials, budgets, and owner reporting
Investment brokerage, underwritten by operators.
Dispositions, acquisitions, and broker opinions of value for multifamily assets in the Midwest. Our valuations start from operating data we produce ourselves, not a pro forma we were handed.
- Dispositions and off-market placement
- Acquisition sourcing and underwriting
- Broker opinion of value
Advisory, on its own terms.
Investment, asset management and property management consulting for owners who want the read without changing anything. Scoped, paid for, and finished.
- Hold-or-sell and portfolio analysis
- Asset business plans and capital sequencing
- Audits of in-house or third-party management
We manage every building as though we intend to sell it
because eventually, you will.
Value is built in the operating years, not the marketing weeks.
Most owners keep one firm to run the building and hire another to sell it. By then the number is already set — by years of leasing decisions, expense discipline, and deferred maintenance nobody was managing toward an exit.
Our incentives align with yours.
A brokerage only earns when you transact. We also manage the building, so a year you spend holding is not a year we lose. When the honest answer is wait, you will get it — with the reasoning attached.
The exit is an operating decision.
Whether your rents sit at market or a year behind it. Which renovations actually earn their money back at sale. How long a unit stands empty between turns. Each of those is a management decision, and each one moves net operating income — which is what the building is priced on. We make them years ahead of a sale, not in the ninety days before a listing.
Our valuation is our own bookkeeping.
A broker opinion of value from Roark starts with a T-12 our accountants closed and a rent roll our leasing team built. There is nothing in the file for diligence to find that we did not already know about.
Everything an apartment building needs, under one roof.
Leasing & lease-up
Listing, showing, screening, and renewal campaigns run against a weekly occupancy target you can see.
Capital projects
Scoping, competitive bids, and construction management for unit renovations, roofs, and building systems.
Maintenance & 24/7 emergency
Staff technicians for turns and preventive work, and a live line after hours — not a voicemail box checked on Monday.
Owner reporting
Monthly statements, a reconciled general ledger, and an annual budget you approve line by line before it runs.
Collections & delinquency
Autopay enrollment, a documented late-notice ladder, and eviction filings handled in-house rather than farmed out.
Compliance & fair housing
Fair-housing training for every leasing agent, affordable-program reporting, and municipal inspection readiness.
Deals are priced on a pro forma. They settle on the T-12.
We underwrite from the operating side because we produce operating data every month. Buying or selling, the number we hand you is the number the building actually makes — not the one a cap rate applied to a hope makes it look like.
Positioning and pricing built from the operating file, then taken to a buyer list we keep year-round — not one assembled the week a listing goes up. We run diligence through to funding, so the price you agreed is the price that closes.
We underwrite what the building will do under real management rather than what the seller’s pro forma says: where the rents actually sit against the market, what the deferred maintenance costs to clear, and what the expense line looks like once it is run properly. You get that before the deposit goes hard.
What the building is worth today, drawn from a T-12 and a rent roll rather than comps alone. Sellers use it to set a number. Buyers use it to test one.
You do not have to hand us the keys.
Some owners want the operating read without changing managers, or the underwriting without a broker sitting on the other side of the table. We take advisory work on its own terms — scoped, paid for, and finished.
Hold-or-sell analysis on a building or a portfolio, underwriting on a deal you sourced yourself, or a read on a submarket before you commit to it. No listing agreement attached.
A written business plan for one asset: where the rent should sit, which capital earns its cost back and in what order, and what the building looks like three years out. We build it — you run it, or your manager does.
An audit of how the building is actually being run, whether by your own staff or a third party. Staffing, systems, reporting, delinquency and the turn process, with the gaps named rather than implied.
Let’s look at the numbers.
Send an address and a rent roll and we will come back with a written management proposal, a valuation, or both. Buying instead, tell us what you are hunting for. And if you only want the read — on one building, a portfolio, or the people running it — that is a job we take on its own.