Blake Mohseni
Founder, Rising Tide
Blake is the founder of Rising Tide, a federation of independent property management firms. The idea is simple and, in this industry, still rare: strong local operators should be able to reach real scale without handing their name, their team, and their clients to a private-equity roll-up.
He comes at property management from the systems and economics side, not from decades of managing doors, and he is direct about that. What he brings to the writing here is a clear-eyed read on how PM businesses actually make money, where the growth ceilings are, how firms get valued and sold, and what technology does and does not change. When a piece needs an operator's lived detail, it comes from operators, quoted and named, not invented.
Rising Tide is early, and building in the field with real firms right now. That is the honest truth, and it shapes how Blake writes: no hype, no broker's agenda, and no pretending the receipts are bigger than they are. The goal of these notes is to be the straight answer an owner wishes they could find.