Seattle, Washington
Andrew Lekowski
DBA AVApartments · DBA Aurora & Cedar Stays
Veteran and former Apache pilot. Husband and father. Licensed engineer, real estate investment consultant, and I own and operate my own portfolio.
30+ units bought, renovated and either held, repositioned or sold — all of it while serving, by systemizing the work and leading the teams that run it. I consult on real estate investment and partner with people building something worth building.
The short version
I buy what I can fix, build the system that runs it, and lead the team that executes.
I started acquiring distressed property in 2019 and never stopped — through four duty stations and a full swing in interest rates. Thirty-plus units bought and renovated, some held long-term on our own balance sheet, others repositioned, recapitalized or sold. None of it was done alone: it works because the underwriting is systemized, the operations run on documented processes, and the crews, cleaners and contractors are led rather than micromanaged. It is the same discipline I was held to as the officer accountable for 150 soldiers and a 24-aircraft fleet.
The twelve are held on our own balance sheet — not syndicated, not managed for anyone else. Specifics on request.
How the work actually gets done
Operations built on AI
I design my own agents, workflows and tools to get any job done.
Not a subscription and a chat window — systems I build, test and hand to the team. If a job can be defined, it can be automated, and I'd rather build the tool once than do the work every week.
Websites built and maintained end to end. Property and investment portfolios modeled and tracked. Daily operations across four markets — underwriting and sensitivity modeling, turnover systems and property-specific checklists, supply reordering, guest correspondence, revenue and market research — all running on tooling I wrote. Each one turns a job that used to eat a week into a documented process the team can run without me, which is the whole point.
How I finish things
I read the policy, build the file, and see it through to a decision.
Contracts, insurance policies, platform terms, municipal code, tax filings — the paperwork most owners hand off or walk away from is where I'm most comfortable. I document as I go, know what the governing language actually says, and follow a matter through every level of a process until someone rules on it. More than 100 disputed matters resolved in my favor — insurers, platforms, agencies and contractors. I follow through to the finish line, and I win.
What I bring
Three skill sets that turned out to be one.
Leadership & operations
Analysis & engineering
Real estate & hospitality
The work, and the reason for it
Eight years in Army aviation, 500+ hours in the AH-64E Apache, and the family that moved with all of it.
Where I can help
Real estate investment consulting
Underwriting and deal analysis, acquisition and disposition strategy, renovation scoping and vendor management, and building the short- and mid-term rental operation that comes after the closing. Useful to owners scaling past the point where they can run everything themselves.
Operators & platforms
Corporate housing providers, insurance relocation and ALE desks, property managers and hospitality platforms who need dependable inventory in the Pacific Northwest or Alaska — or an operating partner who has already built and run it.
Joint ventures, either direction
Deploying my own capital into value-add residential, and partnering with capital that wants an operator with underwriting discipline, engineering judgment and a record built through a full interest-rate cycle.
Aurora & Cedar Stays
The short-term rental business my wife and I run together — furnished homes in Tacoma, Puyallup, DuPont and Fairbanks, all in places we've actually lived. Airbnb Superhost and Vrbo Premier Host for six-plus years, across 750+ guest reviews.
Get in touch
I answer my own email.