Our Founders
Rick Rauch
Rick's career spans the complete development lifecycle—from due diligence and feasibility through entitlements, budgeting, construction delivery, and asset management. He's managed and delivered over $300 million in diverse commercial projects nationwide, including managing international teams on complex builds.
Most recently, he led a $50 million development portfolio of Class A self-storage facilities.
What Rick Brings:
Rick ensures we never overpay for properties or improvements. He can walk a building and immediately identify what needs fixing, what it costs, and how long it takes. His experience managing entitlements, civil work, and municipal approvals across multiple markets positions Rockbay to pursue development opportunities when market conditions warrant.
Rick manages all property improvements directly using trusted local contractors—no third-party markup, no surprises, no delays. His decades of national project experience and extensive Texas contractor network mean we get competitive pricing and responsive service.
Sam Rehbock
Sam trained at Marcus & Millichap on the Industrial Assets team—learning to stress-test assumptions, challenge projections, and walk away from deals that don't work. Over the past five years, he's underwritten over half a billion dollars in commercial and industrial real estate transactions. This disciplined approach, applied to small bay properties, ensures Rockbay never chases deals based on optimistic projections.
After Marcus & Millichap, Sam became Managing Partner at Southwest Urban's commercial division in
Phoenix, growing the team to 10 agents managing investment sales and leasing transactions throughout Arizona. His relationships with prominent brokers throughout the market mean we see opportunities before they hit the market.
What Sam Brings:
Sam leads all acquisition activity with the same rigorous methodology he developed analyzing diverse commercial transactions. He underwrites properties assuming 2-3% rent growth when the market is delivering 5-10%. He models 5-10% vacancy even when properties are fully leased. He stress-tests every assumption.
His Phoenix network provides direct relationships with sellers, brokers, and other market participants. This access generates proprietary deal flow—the deals we close often never reach public listing services.
Sam's underwriting discipline is what protects investor capital. If the numbers don't work today—not based on hoped-for rent growth or optimistic exit cap rates, but based on current market conditions—we pass, regardless of how attractive the story sounds.
