General Manager - STL

We're building the largest portfolio of affordable housing in the heart of America. We need you to make it happen.

About SFR3
SFR3 is a tech-enabled real estate investment fund acquiring over $2.5B in single-family homes by 2026. We specialize in buying and renovating distressed homes in overlooked neighborhoods, scaling efficiently across dozens of midsized metros. In just four years, we’ve grown to 10,000+ homes across two dozen markets—and we’re just getting started.

Your Mandate
As General Manager, you're not just managing a market—you’re running a business. Covering X markets, you’ll oversee the entire investment lifecycle from renovation through turn, ensuring every dollar delivers outsized yield. This role demands hands-on hustle, strategic oversight, and a relentless ownership mentality.

You are the fund’s eyes and ears in the Southeast. You’ll assess and scope homes, solve construction and operational problems in real-time, and drive performance across cost, quality, and speed. You’ll be trusted to make the financial calls, build the right teams, and keep your markets lean and profitable.

Your Responsibilities

• Own all renovation, turn, maintenance, and property operations across your region, balancing asset performance with resident experience
• Scope homes accurately, identify repair needs and appropriate solutions, and drive daily progress as needed
• Eliminate renovation backlogs with urgency and discipline
• Ensure timely, high-quality completions aligned with HUD/HQS standards
• Evaluate and solve complex construction problems using a strong working knowledge of residential building practices, systems materials and repair methods
• Drive efficient maintenance operations across occupied homes, balancing responsiveness, quality, resident experience and cost

Financials & Yield

• Maximize ROI on every home
• Balance cost, quality, and time to deliver yield
• Monitor and improve TVP, overhead, and margin performance
• Operate within overhead targets and manage vendor spend with precision
• Make sound repair-vs-replace decisions by balancing immediate cost, asset condition, useful life, and long term return
• Make data-informed decisions across projects, vendors, and team deployment
• Collaborate cross-functionally with centralized teams
• Ensure your region performs as a self-contained business unit
• Lead and empower local teams, vendor crews, and market partners
• Identify gaps and build the bench with capable, reliable talent
• Set expectations, hold the line, and build a culture of ownership

Performance Metrics

• Cost-to-complete accuracy
• Renovation cycle time and backlog elimination
• Margin & yield performance
• Quality outcomes and tenant satisfaction

What You Bring

• Strong working knowledge of residential construction practices, renovation, and repair; able to independently assess conditions, develop or challenge scopes, and evaluate workmanship
• Working familiarity with major residential mechanical systems—including HVAC, plumbing, and electrical—and the judgment to know when specialty expertise is required
• Experience with residential property management, maintenance operations, or occupied-home service delivery is strongly preferred
• Strong financial and business acumen, with the ability to make practical cost/quality/speed and repair-vs.-replace decisions
• Proven ability to lead, motivate, and hold accountable employees, contractors, and vendor partners
• High ownership mentality with the initiative to identify problems, make decisions, and drive them through resolution

What ‘Excellent’ Looks Like

• You treat your region like it's your business
• You’re respected by contractors, trusted by partners, and leaned on by the fund
• You solve problems on the ground and think 3 steps ahead
• You consistently deliver quality, speed, and profitability
• You build strong teams and develop future leaders
• You influence fund-wide strategy by setting a gold standard in market operations
• Competitive base salary + substantial quarterly bonus tied to financial performance
• Gas stipend
• PTO
• 401K + Roth 401K options

Ready to run the show?
If you're a high-impact operator with strong financial acumen, a bias for action, and a drive to own outcomes, the General Manager role at SFR3 might be your next big opportunity.

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