About Pousada

As STR and Hotel owners ourselves, we strive to provide value for our owner/partners and maintain asset values over their useful life. We believe in providing superior service, maintenance and operational value for our clients at lower cost than most competitors.

There are four things in particular that make us stand out:

Our seasoned team knows how to build, develop and operate boutique hotel and short term rental properties.

Our strong relationships result from the meaningful and long-lasting value that we create for our clients and customers.

Our insights into what it takes to develop, own and operate short term rentals allows us to prioritize our owner clients in a way most management firms cannot.

Our process embraces technology and innovation at every turn, ensuring that we maintain our value to clients, especially in our home market of New Orleans.

We would be ecstatic to work with you and your team and have the resources and capabilities to successfully operate and maintain your asset by executing on your vision and performance expectations.

Who We Are

Founded on Values. Built on Experience.

Pousada Property Management was built to provide value for owners of apartment hotel and Short Term Rental properties. Our integrated experience as developers, owners and property managers drives our Owner focused approach to short term rental management.

Competitive Advantage.

We strive to operate apartment hotels as profitably as possible while making the nitty gritty of property maintenance a priority. Our experience as real estate developers and owners means we know how to maintain value for property owners and treat their assets like our own.

We are an integrated company.

Our affiliated companies span the spectrum of real estate value creation, and work together as an integrated group combining our knowledge of the market, customers and products. The results benefit everyone- our customers, clients, buyers, investors, and business partners – with exceptionally built environments and increased asset value

We enjoy consistent, hands on leadership.

Our small but integrated team results in our leadership being involved in every facet of a project. This allows every project we work on to benefit from our in-depth experience and laser focused attention from all of our leadership team.

We listen. We learn.

We build relationships that are based on listening to and respecting the needs of our clients, partners and our guests. We work to ensure that our interests are aligned. As a result, we have a track record of successful and repeated partnerships. Much of our new business is a result of referrals from existing clients and partners. Our understanding of both our markets and our customers is continually deepened as a result of developing, building and managing an expanding portfolio of short term rental and apartment hotel properties for our own developed assets and for third parties. This experience makes us better at what we do and quickly translates into meaningful improvements in quality and design.

Team

We’re a team of dedicated professionals who are passionate about helping you reach your goals.

Nicholas Bruno

Founder & CEO

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Nick is the Founder and CEO of Pousada Property Manager, a company that specializes in developing high-end short term rental and hotel properties. B&C has developed or currently has under development over $11 million worth of residential and commercial projects. Nick has been involved in planning, conceptualizing and executing all of those projects.

Nick also currently works as a development consultant and project manager for other New Orleans development firms including Diversified Enterprises of New Orleans which is the real estate arm of Cesar Burgos, and Crowley Properties, LLC. He shares office space within the office of Brian Gibbs of Gibbs Development.

Nick also spent over eight years at Bruno & Crowley Properties LLC Restoration and Development. In his role as Development Manager he oversaw all aspects of the development process for all projects during his time at Bruno & Crowley Properties LLC: acquiring properties, creating project budgets, identifying potential sources, layering the capital stack for projects and using his extensive knowledge of historic, LIHTC, and new market tax credits in Bruno & Crowley Properties LLC’s business models. He also works with contractors and lenders during construction to facilitate on-time, on-budget projects. Over the last 8 years, Nick’s role as development manager for Bruno & Crowley Properties LLC, LLC brought him extensive experience in complex multi-sourced tax credit deals as well as equity financed market rate residential deals. Bruno & Crowley Properties LLC, LLC specializes in scattered-site historic rehabilitation projects and Nick has secured the 9% competitive Low Income Housing Tax Credits as well the State and Federal Historic Tax Credits necessary to finance these projects. Furthermore, Nick has worked with Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group on new market tax credit deals as well as debt and equity financing from Prudential’s Social Based Investment Group. His projects have ranged from renovating an abandoned department store into a state of the art jazz performance hall, to the scattered site historic rehabilitation of 70 units of low-income housing in the Iberville and Treme neighborhoods of New Orleans to the renovation of a five story abandoned office building in ground floor retail and 40 units of market rate apartments in Newark, New Jersey.

Nick also has extensive experience in land-use issues and has worked on dozens of PILOT’s, variances, subdivisions requests, and conditional use applications. As a result, he has experience in community engagement and working with elected officials and stakeholders in order to get the necessary project approvals.

In 2020, Nick founded Pousada Property Management LLC, a full service fee-based short term rental and boutique hotel operator. Pousada provides additional value for all of the short term rental and hotel development that Bruno & Crowley Properties performs. The company strives to put the needs of Owners first, by placing an emphasis on the less sexy aspects of property management such as routine & preventice maintenance and regular capital improvements that maintain the value of Owner’s assets over the long term while implementing operational systems and technology that maximize operating revenue. Pousada does all of this a lower cost than its competitors.

Nick is a graduate of Tulane University’s A.B. Freeman School of Business as a double major in Finance and Marketing. He is a licensed real estate broker in Louisiana.

Daniel Crowley

Advisor

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Daniel Crowley graduated from Tulane University with a degree in Finance in 2011. From there he worked in Finance for several years before getting into real estate. Daniel and Nick formed Bruno & Crowley Properties, LLC back in 2012. Much of Daniels bio is similar to Nick's regarding real estate.

Outside of real estate Daniel also owns Crowley Holdings (a construction company) and Crowley Hauling (a dump truck company). Between these businesses he has gathered much business experience which helps to run Pousada smoothly. Please reach out to Daniel with any questions or concerns!

Alex DeRojas

Assistant Property Manager

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Alex is a native New Orleanian who attended LSU where he completed his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. Following graduation, Alex started his career as a Researcher and Customer Support Specialist at Levelset. After Levelset, he obtained his LA Real Estate Licences and joined Pousada Management shortly after as an Assistant Property Manager.

In his free time, you can find him listening to live music at local festivals, trying new restaurants, or obsessing over random outdoor activities.