Meet Our Team | Our Team

Our Team is your key to successful apartment investing.

Our Team features three partners whose varied backgrounds help inform smart, full-cycle real estate investment decisions for investors. From property evaluation to purchase, rehabilitation, and eventual sales, Our Team partners know how to maximize cash flow and market value for multifamily real estate investors.

Our Team specializes in handling the details and financing required to build partner portfolios and profits.

Cathy Fontana

Partner

The founder of Class A Management LLC, Cathy Fontana has more than 30 years of property investing, rehabilitation, management and sales experience. Her diverse portfolio includes residential, commercial, retail, single-family and multifamily real estate investment properties.

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An experienced investment partner, Cathy exhibits a keen understanding of market trends and uses her knowledge of multifamily property management to recommend investor decisions that maximize portfolio value and long-term growth.

Cathy’s current management portfolio includes marketing and leasing activities for more than 6,000 units in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex alone. Among these are multi-family residences with more than 500 units per property, as well as managed properties throughout Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee and Georgia.

Cathy works with Our Team partners to provide investors with analysis, feasibility, and acquisition and disposition services for multi-family properties within the context of full-cycle investing, from acquisition to disposition and every step in between.

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Extensive property rehabilitation and full-cycle real estate investments

Among Cathy’s currently managed and past investments, she has supervised extensive rehabilitation projects that included components such as roofing, flooring, individual HVAC and chilled water, boilers, and more, on the following properties:

Alexander Court (XX units)
Blue Sky Ranch (49 units)
City Center (70 units)
Coronado Hills (68 units)
Courts of Swiss (XX units)
Crescent Plaza (44 units)
Crescent Village (44 units)
Easton Acres (XX units)
Knightsgate Apartments (60 units)
Lincoln Village (XX units)
Lubbock Square (124 units)
Palm Shore (88 units)
Ridgmar Townhomes (60 units)
Rolling Hills @ Elm Creek (XX units)
Sandalwood Gardens (30 units)
Swiss Court (XX units)
The Boulders (65 units)
The Meadows (48 units)
The Burgundy (144 units)
Village East (133 units)
Willow Court (66 units)
Willow Creek (39 units)
Wyatt Place (XX units)

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Extensive property rehabilitation and full-cycle real estate investments

Among Cathy’s currently managed and past investments, she has supervised extensive rehabilitation projects that included components such as roofing, flooring, individual HVAC and chilled water, boilers, and more, on the following properties:

Alexander Court (XX units)
Blue Sky Ranch (49 units)
City Center (70 units)
Coronado Hills (68 units)
Courts of Swiss (XX units)
Crescent Plaza (44 units)
Crescent Village (44 units)
Easton Acres (XX units)
Knightsgate Apartments (60 units)
Lincoln Village (XX units)
Lubbock Square (124 units)
Palm Shore (88 units)
Ridgmar Townhomes (60 units)
Rolling Hills @ Elm Creek (XX units)
Sandalwood Gardens (30 units)
Swiss Court (XX units)
The Boulders (65 units)
The Meadows (48 units)
The Burgundy (144 units)
Village East (133 units)
Willow Court (66 units)
Willow Creek (39 units)
Wyatt Place (XX units)

Certificates & Awards

RTC
AHDP
Tax Credit
Fair Housing
Section 8 Housing Assistance
1996 Outstanding Property Supervisor of Tarrant Cty
You Made a Difference – Tarrant County Apartment Association
Best you can be – Tarrant County
City recognition awards from Arlington, Euless, Grapevine, Hurst and Irving

Bryan Ayres

Partner

The co-founder of Solid Door Investments, LLC, Bryan Ayres purchased his first rental property at the age of 21. He now has more than 25 years of experience in rental property management and is committed to providing commercial real estate investment opportunities to the general public.

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As a licensed general contractor in the state of Arizona, Bryan began his real estate career flipping single family homes. He then entered the multifamily investing arena for long-term portfolio cash flow and value appreciation through full-cycle real estate investment. His considerable project management and construction experience serves his investors well. He recently completed an 84-unit rehabilitation project in less than 22 months and delivered a 32 percent AAR to all partners when the property was sold.

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Diversified Portfolio Management

Bryan maintains a personal investment portfolio of more than 1,000 multifamily units throughout the South and Midwest, including single-family homes, multifamily investment properties, and mixed-use retail:

Mesa, AZ (84 units) (Sold 2021)
Big Spring, TX (117 units)
Red Oak, TX (48 units)
Bryan, TX (30 units)
College Station, TX (60 units)
Bloomington, IN (40 units)
Red Oak, TX (Mixed Use) (18 units)
Denton, TX (123 units)
Galveston, TX (88 units)
Fort Worth, TX (66 units)
Bonham, TX (65 units)
Omaha, NE (62 units)
Longview, TX (105 units)
Longview, TX (69 units)

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Diversified Portfolio Management

Bryan maintains a personal investment portfolio of more than 1,000 multifamily units throughout the South and Midwest, including single-family homes, multifamily investment properties, and mixed-use retail:

Mesa, AZ (84 units) (Sold 2021)
Big Spring, TX (117 units)
Red Oak, TX (48 units)
Bryan, TX (30 units)
College Station, TX (60 units)
Bloomington, IN (40 units)
Red Oak, TX (Mixed Use) (18 units)
Denton, TX (123 units)
Galveston, TX (88 units)
Fort Worth, TX (66 units)
Bonham, TX (65 units)
Omaha, NE (62 units)
Longview, TX (105 units)
Longview, TX (69 units)

Rebecca Stuelpnagel

Partner

Co-founder of Solid Door Investments, Rebecca Stuelpnagel brings more than 20 years of appraisal and underwriting experience to Our Team. She began her real estate career with a University of Nebraska Bachelor’s Degree in Real Estate and Land Use Economics. She launched her professional career as a Certified Appraiser and Licensed Realtor, and brings a wealth of experience to Our Team partners with those specializations.

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Specializations That Serve Investors

Rebecca’s investment portfolio features full-cycle real estate investments in the single family, multifamily, and mixed-use retail verticals. She maintains partnership interests in more than 1,000 investment properties throughout the South and Midwest.

Rebecca’s most recent investment success was in the form of an 84-unit multifamily rehabilitation investment project which delivered a 32 percent annual average return for all partners.

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Extensive property rehabilitation and full-cycle real estate investments

Among Cathy’s currently managed and past investments, she has supervised extensive rehabilitation projects that included components such as roofing, flooring, individual HVAC and chilled water, boilers, and more, on the following properties:

Alexander Court (XX units)
Blue Sky Ranch (49 units)
City Center (70 units)
Coronado Hills (68 units)
Courts of Swiss (XX units)
Crescent Plaza (44 units)
Crescent Village (44 units)
Easton Acres (XX units)
Knightsgate Apartments (60 units)
Lincoln Village (XX units)
Lubbock Square (124 units)
Palm Shore (88 units)
Ridgmar Townhomes (60 units)
Rolling Hills @ Elm Creek (XX units)
Sandalwood Gardens (30 units)
Swiss Court (XX units)
The Boulders (65 units)
The Meadows (48 units)
The Burgundy (144 units)
Village East (133 units)
Willow Court (66 units)
Willow Creek (39 units)
Wyatt Place (XX units)

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Mesa, AZ (84 units) (Sold 2021)
Big Spring, TX (117 units)
Red Oak, TX (48 units)
Bryan, TX (30 units)
College Station, TX (60 units)
Bloomington, IN (40 units)
Red Oak, TX (Mixed Use) (18 units)
Denton, TX (123 units)
Galveston, TX (88 units)
Fort Worth, TX (66 units)
Bonham, TX (65 units)
Omaha, NE (62 units)
Longview, TX (105 units)
Longview, TX (69 units)