Stratford Ellis
United States

Independent technology and data advisory for US property operators.

Your portfolio is growing. We make sure your systems, data and operations can grow with it. We help owners, operators and property management firms fix fragmented systems, unreliable data and inefficient processes before they turn into expensive problems.

No software commissions. No reseller agreements. No platform agenda.

The problem

When the portfolio grows faster than the operating model.

Acquisitions, new communities and third-party management wins create a familiar problem. We give owners and operators an independent view of what to fix first, what not to replace, and how to make the stack scale.

Growth outran the operating model

New communities, acquisitions and third-party management wins arrive faster than the systems behind them. Property, finance, maintenance and reporting stop agreeing with each other.

Owner and investor reporting is manual

Month-end is assembled by hand from exports. By the time an owner package is out, the operating question it should have answered has moved on.

Work orders live outside the stack

Vendors are dispatched by phone and email, invoices come back in whatever format each firm uses, and nobody can see where a unit turn or a repair actually stands.

Every vendor already has the answer

It is their product. What you need is someone with nothing to sell reviewing the whole stack and telling you which parts are worth keeping.

Independent by design

We are paid for the advice, not for what you end up buying.

  • No reseller margin, no referral fees, no product of our own to protect.
  • You own the plan. Execute it with your own team, another partner, or us.
  • Because we may have to deliver it, we never recommend work we could not build.
  • We work inside your environment, to your security and access rules.
Trust Centre: CCPA/CPRA, cross-border data handling, SOC 2 aligned controls
Acquisitions and management transitions

Acquired another portfolio? Make sure the technology does not become the integration problem.

We help owners and operators bring newly acquired or newly managed portfolios into the operating model without losing control of the data. The work is the same whether it is a purchase, a management transition or a third-party win.

  1. Before transition01

    Know what you are inheriting

    • Systems and data discovery across the acquired portfolio
    • Source-to-target mapping for property, unit, lease and resident records
    • Data risk assessment, including what will not survive the move
    • Owner, investor and month-end reporting requirements agreed up front
  2. During transition02

    Move it without losing control

    • Property, unit, lease and resident migration with reconciliation at every step
    • Finance and operational integration into the receiving stack
    • Data validation, exception handling and sign-off by number, not by feel
    • Workflow alignment so onboarded sites run your process from day one
  3. After transition03

    Make it permanent

    • Portfolio and owner reporting on the combined book
    • Data governance and ownership that survives the next acquisition
    • Process standardisation across legacy and newly managed communities
    • Legacy platform retirement, with the audit trail intact
Start here

Start with a fixed-scope advisory assessment.

Within weeks you have a clear view of where cost and risk sit, what should be fixed first, and what a realistic implementation should cost.

The questions it answers

  • Where is operational time being lost, and what does it cost?
  • Which systems should stay, and which should go?
  • Where are data quality problems distorting reporting?
  • What should be integrated, and what should be left alone?
  • What should be automated, and what should not?
  • What should the next twelve months of technology investment look like?
  • What will it realistically cost, and in what order?

What you receive

  • System landscape
  • Data risk assessment
  • Process findings
  • Prioritised recommendations
  • Future-state architecture view
  • Costed roadmap
  • 90-day action plan

You own all of it. Execute it with your own team, another partner, or us. We take no reseller margin and no referral fees either way.

Scope an assessment
Platforms

We work with the systems already running your portfolio.

YardiMRIRealPageEntrataSalesforceDynamics 365NetSuiteServiceTitanServiceNowMaximoOracleSAPSnowflakePower BI

Do not see yours? That is rather the point. We are platform-independent, and we are just as often asked to get more out of what you already own as to help you replace it.

Start with advice, not a sales pitch.

Thirty minutes, no pitch. We will give you an independent read on your portfolio's systems, data and reporting: where the money is leaking, what to fix first, and what it should cost.