The Tanbic Company acquires and develops multifamily real estate, with a focus on disciplined basis, market timing, and execution. Through our management platform, Stellar Residential, we operate more than 5,000 units across the Sunbelt. We exited our investment portfolio in 2022, ahead of the broader market correction. With rents resetting, supply absorbing, and pricing finally reflecting reality, we are selectively re-entering the market.
We combine a data-driven focus on high-growth markets with careful risk mitigation, moderate use of leverage, and thoughtful portfolio construction. The result: over 40% average NOI growth across our multifamily portfolio. In 2022, we elected to sell our entire portfolio rather than execute 1031 exchanges — the decision to preserve significant capital ahead of the broader market correction.
We target markets where population growth, wage expansion, and regulatory barriers create durable rental demand that consistently outpaces new supply. We look for submarkets with strong household formation, limited competitive pipeline, and favorable rent-to-income dynamics — and we actively seek mismanaged assets where hands-on operations can immediately impact the bottom line.
In 2021 and 2022, we elected to sell our entire multifamily portfolio rather than execute 1031 exchanges, concluding that market conditions would decline further than the cost of capital gains tax. We apply the same discipline to entry: conservative assumptions on rent growth and operations, stress-tested exit scenarios, and a clear path to value creation before committing capital.
Through our proprietary property management platform, Stellar Residential, we maintain direct control of asset performance from day one. This alignment eliminates the agency risk inherent in third-party management and accelerates stabilization timelines.
We invest meaningful GP equity alongside our partners and structure performance-based promotes that ensure alignment through the hold period. Our partners include family offices, institutional allocators, and high-net-worth co-investors.
A fully entitled, shovel-ready, 209-unit elevator-served community on 13.93 acres adjacent to The Ranch at Prescott, where homes average over $1 million. Prescott is Arizona's third-largest MSA with only 2,680 existing apartment units, making it among the most supply-constrained rental markets in the country.
Every Tanbic-sponsored multifamily investment has been exited profitably. The portfolio operated at an average of 4.3% below original proforma operating expenses throughout the hold period.




Whether acquired or built from the ground up, every Tanbic multifamily asset is managed in-house through Stellar Residential. There is no handoff to a third party. The result: operational expenses averaging 4.3% below proforma and over 40% average NOI growth across the portfolio.

Sourcing, acquisition, entitlement, capital structuring, construction oversight, and investor relations. Tanbic serves as General Partner across all partnership structures, maintaining fiduciary alignment and hands-on control from acquisition through disposition.

Our management team is led by Dale Phillips, who served as President of Mark-Taylor Residential for 17 years, and Ben Carter, CFO, whose prior roles at Ventura Investment Company and Wedgewood spanned a $2 billion portfolio. Together they bring decades of experience across Prudential, UBS, Wood Partners, Trammell Crow Residential, Triumph, and Empire.
Today the platform manages more than 5,000 units with another 2,000 in the development pipeline.
We concentrate capital in high-growth markets with strong demand drivers, limited competitive supply, and a clear path to value creation. Our deepest operating history is in Arizona, and we remain actively opportunistic across the broader South, Southwest, and Mountain West.

Tanner Bickelhaupt founded The Tanbic Company in 2015 after serving as Director of Real Estate for Black Rock Development, where he managed a portfolio of over 44 entities with a combined real estate value exceeding $550 million. Over his career he has been involved in 61 properties representing 11,529 units and raised over $250 million in private equity from accredited investors.
He co-founded Stellar Residential alongside Dale Phillips, who served as President of Mark-Taylor Residential for 17 years, to bring property management in-house. Today the platform manages more than 5,000 units with another 2,000 in the development pipeline. He serves as General Partner across all Tanbic partnerships.
Outside of real estate, Tanner serves as a board member of Save®, an SEC-regulated fintech platform backed by BNP Paribas. He lives in Scottsdale with his wife and family.
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