My Companies: Five Companies, One Operating Philosophy
SteelPoint Capital
The platform where I raise and deploy private capital into real estate and operating opportunities. If you're evaluating me as an investment partner, this is the place to start.
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Local First Lending
A Pittsburgh-based lender for real estate investors, providing financing for fix-and-flip, BRRRR, bridge, and construction projects. More than $50M has been deployed in Pittsburgh.
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CityLife Residential
The business that grew from my first $40,000 property. Today, CityLife owns 700+ units and manages 1,200+ units across 90+ Pittsburgh communities.
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Accruity
Bookkeeping, back-office, and fractional CFO support built for real estate investors and service businesses. The company has served 200+ businesses.
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Provato
Fractional CMO leadership for companies that need marketing strategy, execution, and management without building a full in-house leadership function.
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The SteelPoint Foundation
The companies above are how I put capital to work for a return. The SteelPoint Foundation is how a portion of what they build goes back into Pittsburgh directly — the neighborhoods, families, and organizations that shaped my own path here.
Real estate is still at the center
My first deal was a $40,000 single-family home in Allentown in 2019. Since then, real estate has become a major part of the platform — from owning and operating residential housing to lending to other investors and deploying private capital.
But I don't look at real estate only as an asset class. I look at it as an operating business. The spreadsheet matters, but so do the people, the neighborhood, the financing, the execution, and the decisions that have to be made after closing.
Why Pittsburgh?
People ask me all the time: is Pittsburgh a good place to invest in real estate? I've staked my career on the answer. Every company above was built here, and every dollar of private capital I manage is deployed here.
Pittsburgh isn't a market where you win by speculating. It's a market where you win by knowing the neighborhoods — which streets are turning around, which blocks hold their value, and where the demand actually comes from. That knowledge is the edge I built CityLife, Local First Lending, and SteelPoint Capital on, and it's an edge out-of-town investors can't easily copy.
Real entry points
My first deal was a $40,000 single-family home in Allentown. Pittsburgh still offers entry prices that let investors buy, improve, and hold without overextending — which is exactly why I started lending to other investors doing the same.
Demand that lasts
Universities, hospital systems, and a growing tech and robotics scene keep people moving to the city. That steady demand for housing is why CityLife has grown to 700+ units owned across 90+ Pittsburgh communities.
Neighborhood knowledge
Pittsburgh is a city of neighborhoods, not a single market. I've spent years learning them block by block — and I built Local First Lending after watching good investors get rejected by lenders who didn't.
So my answer to the question is simple: yes — if you treat it as an operating business and know where you're buying. If you want to talk about investing in Pittsburgh, let's start a conversation.
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