The Consultant · Real Estate · Ventures · Money
The consultant for your assets.
Strategy for what you own and what you're building — real estate, ventures, and money — from an operator who's developed, financed, and run them.
Big asset decisions — a development, a purchase, a restructuring, where the money goes — are won or lost long before the paperwork. Most people make them with scattered advice and no one holding the whole picture.
CSH is the consultant who does: development advisory, real estate, and business strategy from someone who's built and operated the real thing. We help you see the whole board and bring the right specialists in.
Real estate & development
From raw site to funded build — feasibility, program, capital, and the structure that has to hold once the work begins.
Assets & money strategy
How your holdings fit together, what to build or hold, and the plan behind the moves — with the right licensed specialists brought in.
Operator coaching
The company behind the assets: the discipline, the team, and the operating rhythm that turns one deal into a track record.
Anyone can draw a building or pitch a deal. The work is making the land, the money, the program, and the people line up — so what gets built is what was promised.
What we work in
Why Vault
Russ Michaels
Founder · CSH Vault Consulting
Vault is a small, deliberate advisory. You work directly with the principals — not a deck and a junior team — and the advice is the same we'd give if it were our own capital in the deal.
We've built, restructured, and operated across real estate, finance, and the turnarounds where structure is tested under real pressure. Not just whether a deal can be done, but whether it should be, and how to make it hold.
Build and hold what matters — with a consultant who's done it, and will tell you the truth about what it takes.