The story
Topgallant was founded to do one thing well: buy apartment communities that already work, and run them better than the last owner did. No adjacent ventures, no funds of funds, no promises that require a market to cooperate.
The name comes from the sail set highest on a clipper's mast — reachable only after the hull, the rigging and the crew have earned it. Cardinal and gold carry the colors of USC, where our founder's first circle of investors sat in the same lecture halls.
Our first closing is weeks away. Everything after it is meant to look like it.
Leadership
As Founder and Managing Principal of Topgallant Properties, Scott Boehler brings more than 25 years of experience spanning commercial real estate brokerage, asset and property management, mergers and acquisitions, wireless infrastructure development, and real property law.
Scott has successfully completed more than 250 sale and lease transactions representing over 3.5 million square feet of commercial property. His career includes representing two of the nation’s three largest REITs at the Director level in the acquisition of new projects nationwide, as well as serving as the exclusive wireless infrastructure partner for more than 850 multifamily properties throughout the Southwest.
Scott has applied his real estate, M&A, and contract expertise to a national consulting practice for mid-market companies and sponsors, guiding debt and equity capital strategies, asset management and real property-adjacent income streams, and strategic positioning.
His professional background includes leadership roles with CBRE, American Tower Corporation, Crown Castle International, B. Riley Financial / Glass Ratner, and AAA Appraisal Management. He has also served as a Professor of Business & Property Law at Coastline College. Scott is a published author and national moderator of C-suite strategic forums.
Scott earned a B.S. in Business Administration with an emphasis in Real Estate Finance from the USC Marshall School of Business and a Juris Doctorate with a Business and Real Property specialty from Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law.
Based in Austin, Texas, Scott brings a multidisciplinary perspective to real estate, corporate strategy, transactions, and capital advisory.
Jon Mendoza is Founder and Managing Principal of Topgallant LLC and Barton Creek Property Group, with over 18 years of experience in multifamily investment management. He has acquired $895 million in total capitalization across 7,000+ units in 34 investments spanning market-rate, student, and workforce housing in Texas and the Sun Belt.
Jon brings a comprehensive perspective to multifamily investing, having worked across all three primary investment structures: joint ventures as sponsor, joint ventures as limited partner, and direct acquisitions with best-in-class property management.
He has deep experience with all major multifamily debt types — agency financing (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac), bank debt, life company loans, bridge financing, and CMBS — and a track record of matching capital sources to business plans to optimize returns across market cycles.
Previously, Jon advised early-stage operators and proptech startups on institutional investment strategies. He served as Director of Acquisitions at Abacus Capital Group, a $1 billion private equity real estate fund, sourcing and executing value-add deals across the Central U.S. Earlier roles at RPM Investments and Virtus Real Estate Capital involved acquiring and managing thousands of multifamily and student housing units.
Jon holds an MBA in Real Estate Finance and Private Equity from McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin, where he also earned his BA.
David Myers is a Managing Member of Topgallant Properties. His approach starts from a simple conviction: "Bring talented people together to accomplish extraordinary things." That belief shapes how he builds teams and partnerships across the firm — prioritizing the right people, clear incentives, and shared standards as the foundation on which every deal is built.
David is also Executive Director of Park Watch Inc, a tax exempt 501(c)(3) charitable community service organization who’s Home Watch program applies CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design) concepts to keep residents of multifamily properties safe and engaged in the community as a whole.
David holds a Juris Doctor from South Texas College of Law and a Bachelor of Arts from the Plan II Honors Program at the University of Texas at Austin.
Beyond his operational leadership as COO of Topgallant Properties, David Myers spearheaded the development of HomePort, a proprietary AI-driven tenant engagement platform built to differentiate Topgallant’s portfolio through superior operational efficiency and resident retention.
HomePort applies artificial intelligence to automate the intake and routing of tenant service requests, matching complaints to qualified vendors in real time. This reduces response latency, lowers management overhead, and improves service-level consistency across properties — directly supporting NOI growth through operational efficiency gains.
The platform also incorporates two differentiated engagement features designed to drive tenant retention and lease renewal rates:
- • Tenant Marketplace — a peer-to-peer service exchange that allows residents to offer services to one another, creating an additional value layer within the community and deepening tenant engagement with the platform.
- • Buddy System — an opt-in social networking feature enabling tenants to view fellow residents’ profiles and initiate connections, strengthening community ties and increasing tenant stickiness.
HomePort represents a scalable, technology-driven asset for Topgallant Properties — one that enhances the tenant experience, creates operational leverage, and positions the platform for potential deployment across additional properties or as a standalone licensable product.
A principle, a technology, and a methodology that sets us apart.
Topgallant’s central principle is to create rent stability by anchoring tenants to our properties — providing them with essential support found nowhere else, which they come to rely on and cherish.
The technology that facilitates this support is a platform we call HomePort, which enables tenants to communicate with one another and to offer on-property goods and services.
The methodology that delivers this extraordinary level of service is HomeWatch, a neighbor-to-neighbor buddy system that gives every tenant an on-property contact to mentor them and lend a hand — from securing parcels left at their door to helping in emergencies (First Aid, CPR, and more).
How we behave
Occupancy, delinquency, capital spend — reported the same way in a bad quarter as a good one.
We manage our own assets, so there is no third party to blame when a work order sits.
The best protection against a hard market is the price we paid in an easy one.