Testimonials
"Joe is a 'man for all seasons' in real estate investment and finance. He has successfully led complex financings in up markets and managed difficult restructures in down markets. He is one of the most thoughtful, tough-minded professional real estate financiers in America."
—
J. McDonald Williams, Chairman Emeritus,
Trammell Crow Company, Dallas
"I worked with Joe for many years in his roles as both a real estate lender and as a real estate owner. Joe brings a wealth of industry and financial acumen to the table on every deal. He has seen and experienced all of the real estate cycles during the last few decades. He is a creative problem solver and a man of integrity. I highly recommend Joe for any real estate related consulting engagement."
— Glenn
D. West, Esq.,
Dallas Managing Partner, Member Firm's Managing Committee,
Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York
"I can wholeheartedly recommend Joe Crawford for financial and real estate consulting work. I have known Joe for over 15 years, and he is a man of high character and competent in the real estate field. Joe and I have worked together at Citigroup on various types of new construction financings, as well as refinancings. We also developed properties together when Joe was with Amstar, and all were profitable investments. Joe is a person who can be trusted and can be depended upon to execute any plan of action."
— Tom Teague, Chairman,
Westwood Residential, Dallas
"For more than two decades I have worked with Joe on some of the United States real estate industry's largest, most complex and sophisticated transactions. Joe is creative, energetic and knowledgeable; more importantly, he is pragmatic and knows how to get a task accomplished or strategy implemented within a specified time frame."
— Robert Wilson, Esq., Managing Partner,
Haynes & Boone, LLP,
Dallas
"I have had the pleasure of working with Joe Crawford for over twenty-five years. Joe is very knowledgeable about real estate, mortgage lending and banking matters. His considerable experience illustrates the sophisticated level of the transactions he has handled. Of equal importance, Joe's integrity and character are without question. I highly recommend Joe for any assignment dealing with real estate, mortgage lending and bank lending practices."
— Michael P. Haggerty, Esq., Partner,
Jackson Walker, LLP, Dallas
"We hired Joe to help us navigate a very complex legal/regulatory issue in North Carolina that greatly impacted how our business operated in that state. He did an excellent job of honing in on the issues impacting our business and gathering the information necessary for us to make an informed decision. He was able to assimilate the information from multiple state agencies and authorities and present the information in an easy to follow Executive Summary that got right to the issues at hand. His work provided as much clarity to a complex situation as we have ever had during our operating tenure in that state. Joe and his team would be a firm that I would heartily recommend to other clients and hire again when the situation warrants."
— Todd M Siefert, Assistant
Treasurer,
Gaylord Entertainment Company, Nashville
"I want to thank you for a job well done on the SOX remediation assignment in the Partnerships Control & Reporting Department at HealthSouth. Your experience dealing with high level issues and senior management personnel was invaluable as we developed policies and procedures for a new department in a volatile environment in an organization recovering from massive, widespread accounting fraud with very little internal control. Your confident and patient manner significantly contributed to your ability to win the confidence and cooperation from senior staff in other parts of the company necessary to change how business would be conducted in the future. Your achievements were even more impressive considering the backdrop of active litigation against former senior management, ongoing regulatory scrutiny, a pending internal reorganization, massive debt restructuring, and implementation of a new corporate culture. Your diligence, hard work and great insight were much appreciated as you completed your job requirements on time and under budget. Execution is the key measure of any task and you achieved this task in a very difficult environment with many competing priorities. Thanks again for your efforts."
— Jim Mainor, former Vice President of Partnerships Control & Reporting,
HealthSouth Corporation, Birmingham
"I have known and worked with Joe for many years, approximating two decades, both as a competitor and when Joe was with a major client. In that time, I always found Joe prepared, forthright and reasonable in how he approached business issues. Joe has a depth of experience in real estate financial matters that only comes with time and it provides him with a base of knowledge and creativity that helps solve problems. I would enthusiastically endorse Joe's abilities and energy in his consulting efforts."
— Stephen P. Prinz, Executive Vice President,
Wells Fargo Real Estate
Group, Dallas
"Joe Crawford is uniquely qualified to bring his considerable and varied experience in the real estate industry to assist in solving complex real estate transaction issues. As the head of a major banking office in Dallas before and during the Texas real estate 'work-out' days of the late 1980s and early 1990s, Joe worked through significantly troubled 'high profile' credit relationships and crafted viable solutions that provided 'road maps' for their resolution. Later, as the Chief Operating Officer with a private real estate investment firm, Joe oversaw the expansion and development of the firm and sourced, negotiated and managed numerous highly successful investments in development and re-development of multi-family communities and other product types — partnering with various developers throughout the U.S. in 'win-win' investment transactions.
"The combination of Joe's integrity, his extensive industry experience and his attention to 'the details of a transaction' is rare in the real estate industry, and his dual experience as both 'lender and owner' brings a great deal to the table when a complex business transaction is involved.
"Some things can only be learned by going through 'the fire of the deal' — Joe has been through that fire in this industry and the resulting wisdom borne from his experiences is a ready resource for clients facing complex transactions in an ever-changing business environment."
— Robert W. Barron, Esq.,
Shareholder with Berger
Singerman, P.A., Fort Lauderdale