About Stellar Asset Management

Stellar Asset Management is the third-party asset management arm of the Stellar Family of Companies, which has been working in multifamily real estate since 1989. 35 years, four states, 27 markets, and more than 11,000 units owned and represented. Lease-ups, refinances, dispositions, and a few down cycles that taught us more than the good years did.

That history is most of why we're useful to anybody. We've watched what a property does when a business plan holds, and what it does when one comes apart, and we've been close enough to both to know the difference usually isn't luck.

Who We Answer To

We work for ownership. Not for the property manager, not for the broker, not for whoever's easiest to keep happy. When a review turns up something that isn't working, that's what goes in the report, even when it's uncomfortable and even when the relationship would be smoother if we softened it.

That independence is most of what you're paying for. An owner usually has no shortage of people with a reason to say things are fine.

Why We Do It

Stellar is a faith based company. Our purpose is written down and it hasn't changed in 35 years: to be about our Father's business.

For us that has less to do with what we say and more to do with how we handle what we've been trusted with. Somebody else's capital. Somebody else's asset. And somewhere at the end of it, somebody's home.

We don't expect that to be why anyone hires us. But it is why we work the way we do, and it's the reason an honest report will always matter more to us than a comfortable one.

Team

The People Behind Stellar Asset Management

Sets Stellar's overall investment and asset strategy, drawing on more than three decades building a fully integrated real estate company.

Paul D. Stell

CEO, CO-FOUNDER

Oversees portfolio strategy, tracks investment performance, and drives execution across Stellar's asset base, leading capital allocation, risk management, and value creation.

Dillon Donald

DIRECTOR OF ASSET MANAGEMENT

Leads the growth of Stellar's third-party Asset Management and Property Management businesses, working directly with owners, lenders, and brokers across the industry.

Buck Poderski

MANAGING DIRECTOR,
GROWTH & PLATFORM SERVICES

Supports portfolio oversight through financial analysis, reporting, and hands-on execution across the asset base.

Abby Gillam

ASSET MANAGEMENT ANALYST

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We'll tell you where the asset is losing ground and what it would take to fix. Then you decide whether to keep going. Tell us about the portfolio and we'll set up a short call.