I represent hotel owners. Not operators, not brands, not lenders, not transactions.
That sentence is easy to write and hard to mean, so let me tell you what it costs me.
The Management Agreement Read
The Capital Position Diagnostic
Operator Negotiation Representation
Refinancing & Lender Positioning
The Owner-Side Retainer
I don’t take fees from operators. When I sit across from your management company to renegotiate performance clauses, they know I have never taken their money and never will. There is no future relationship with Accor or Hilton or any franchise system that I’m protecting at your expense. This closes doors for me. It’s supposed to.
I don’t earn a percentage of transactions. If the right answer for your asset is to hold it, refinance it, and revisit in three years, I make exactly as much as if you sold tomorrow. Most advisors in this market are paid to make something happen. I’m paid to figure out what should happen. Those are different jobs, and owners in Berlin have spent decades paying for the first one while needing the second.
I don’t represent both sides. Ever. If an operator or a buyer approaches me about an asset I’ve advised on, the conversation ends there. One side of the table. Yours.
I don’t tell you what you want to hear about your asset. If your management agreement is fine and your problem is your capital structure, I’ll say so. If your problem is that you’re emotionally attached to a repositioning plan the Berlin market won’t support, I’ll say that too. You’re not paying me to agree with you.
Services
The Management Agreement Read —
one document, fixed fee, ten days. The low-friction entry that proves competence on a deliverable the owner can verify with their own lawyer.
The Capital Position Diagnostic —
the core product. Full asset read ending in a named position and a sequenced action list — which structurally is the scope document for services 3 and 4, so it sells the next rung without a pitch.
Operator Negotiation Representation —
agreements, performance clauses, and budget season, with your operational background as the differentiator.
Refinancing & Lender Positioning —
timed to the maturity wall, explicitly not loan brokerage, no lender fees.
The Owner-Side Retainer —
standing representation with a published capacity ceiling, which converts your solo-practice constraint into scarcity.
How it works
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You write to me.
An email describing your situation in your own words — the asset, what’s bothering you about it, and what’s coming up: a renewal, a maturity date, a budget season, or just a feeling that the numbers don’t add up. No intake form, no discovery-call funnel, no calendar link with fifteen-minute slots. German or English, whichever you think in.
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I tell you whether I’m useful — honestly, and fast.
Within a few days we speak, at my expense, for as long as the situation needs. If I can help, I’ll say exactly how and what it costs. If I can’t — wrong market, wrong problem, or your existing advisors already have it covered — I’ll say that in the first half hour, and the conversation costs you nothing. An advisor who takes every engagement is telling you something about their judgment.
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3. The fee is fixed before the work begins.
Every engagement — from a single contract read to a full negotiation — has a flat fee, stated in writing before you commit to anything. No hourly meters, no success fees, no percentage of any transaction. This is not generosity; it’s the mechanism that keeps my advice straight. An advisor paid on outcomes recommends outcomes. I’m paid for the answer, whatever the answer is.
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4. The first engagement is small by design. Almost
every relationship starts with one document or one asset: your management agreement read clause by clause, or a full diagnostic of one property’s capital position. Ten days to four weeks. You receive a written deliverable that is yours regardless of what happens next — and one you can verify independently. Show the contract read to your lawyer. Hold the diagnostic against what you privately suspected about your asset. The work either proves itself or you stop there.
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5. What happens next is your decision, not my pipeline.
If the diagnostic says your agreement needs renegotiating, or your refinancing needs starting now, or your asset is healthy and simply under-watched — the document says so, with the sequence and the reasoning. You can act on it with me, with someone else, or not at all. Owners who continue usually do so because the first deliverable earned it, which is the only sales process I run.
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6. One rule holds through all of it.
I sit on one side of the table — yours. No operator, brand, or lender has ever paid me, and none ever will. If a counterparty to your asset approaches me, the conversation ends there. This is the entire premise of the practice, and it applies from the first email onward.
Work with us
After you fill out this form, we will contact you to go over details.
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