Introduction

Specialized
Amber Hotel Company is a Commercial Real Estate service corporation specializing exclusively in hospitality assets including hotels, motels, resorts, and boutique property types. Specialty product types, such as hospitality, require focused knowledge and experience. Being deeply rooted in the hospitality industry for decades there is no scenario we haven’t seen. We provide expertise and guidance that have helped save our clients significant time and expense.

Experienced
Amber Hotel Company has been engaged by over 100 lenders from large national banks to local community lenders. Our team of hospitality experts relies on over 200 years of combined experience in multiple facets of the industry, including accounting, bookkeeping, franchise representation, food & beverage, guest services, operations, management, receivership and brokerage. Amber’s President and Receiver Steve Post accounts for over 40 years of in‐depth, hands‐on ownership and management experience. Drawing on our experience and vast network of industry relationships we are able to recommend the best course of action.

Nationwide
Our nationwide presence allows us to cover assets in any location and provide a single point-of-contact solution for portfolios with assets in multiple states. Amber’s President Steve Post has been appointed receiver in 25 states and Amber has listed and sold over 500 properties from Rhode Island to Hawaii. Amber’s brokerage services provide national marketing to attract the most qualified buyers and ensure the highest value possible for an asset.

Personal Approach
Each asset is given the personal attention of our staff and full support of our available resources. Our hands‐on approach to property seizure and distressed asset management has proven successful for countless lenders with troubled hotel, motel and boutique property loans. We continue to make our clients’ goals and expectations our responsibility.

Responsive
When it comes to preserving asset value, timing is paramount. Our team can respond swiftly to assess the needs of the situation and put an appropriate action plan in motion. We keep our clients closely informed so they have full transparency into our process and have a clear understanding of our strategy and recommendations. In the capable hands of our experts, your hotel collateral will receive the most comprehensive service you will find in the hospitality industry. Feel free to speak with any number of our satisfied clients and we would look forward to demonstrating our services to you first hand.

Lender Services

Amber provides a “one-stop-shop” for the key services a lender may need to resolve challenges with a hotel loan. We provide lenders with multiple options for resolution and can manage them from beginning to end, providing a simple, timely, and cost-effective solution.

ADVISORY

Collateral Risk Assessment: Amber can review the hotels on a bank’s watchlist to proactively identify key risks that could lead to loss in value to the collateral. Protecting the value of the collateral is always our first priority.
Planning & Strategy: We evaluate numerous approaches for resolving distressed situations and can deliver the most appropriate, cost effective and timely resolution of challenged loans.
— Amber’s advisory services are provided at no cost to the bank —

VALUATION

Valuations attuned to current market conditions are critical in determining the best course of action. We can provide Broker Opinions of Value (BPO) or review appraisals to provide accurate and timely market value guidance.

RECEIVERSHIP

Amber has been appointed Receiver of hospitality properties in 25 state court’s across the nation in order to provide time-critical preservation of collateral asset value.

MANAGEMENT

Amber can step in quickly within 24-48 hours anywhere in the country to manage a distressed asset with complete oversight and control. Whether management is under Amber’s receivership appointment, on behalf of a bank’s REO department, or direct for a borrower at a bank’s request, Amber is always in a supervisory role and will be your primary point of contact.

BROKERAGE

Amber is one of the largest and most experienced hospitality brokerage firms in the U.S. with over one billion dollars and 500 hotels in past transactions. At a lender’s request, Amber can also work directly with a cooperative borrower to help them sell their hotel so a bank can avoid the cost and complications of legal remedies and having to assume ownership of a hotel.

NOTE BUYERS

Amber has relationships with highly qualified promissory note buyers specifically seeking notes secured by hotels/motels.

Lender Client List

Amber Hotel Company has been engaged by the following lenders to provide valuation, receivership, management and/or brokerage services for their hospitality properties and hospitality property loans.

  • AIG
  • American Security Bank
  • American West Bank
  • Apex Mortgage Corp.
  • Arbor Realty
  • Banco Popular
  • Bank of Hope
  • Bank of the West
  • Bayview Loan Services
  • Cathay Bank
  • Center Bank
  • Centerline Capital Group
  • Commonwealth Business Bank
  • Community Bank of San Joaquin
  • Community National Bank of Texas
  • Community West Bank
  • Far East Bank
  • First Commercial Bank
  • First Credit Bank
  • First Northern Bank
  • First Standard Bank
  • Fulton Financial Corporation
  • GE Capital Real Estate
  • GBC International Bank
  • Hanmi Bank
  • Heritage Bank of Commerce
  • Heritage Oaks Bank
  • Independent Bankers’ Bank
  • Indus American Bank
  • Metro United Bank
  • Midland Loan Services
  • Midwest Independent Bank
  • Mission Oaks National Bank
  • Mirae Bank
  • Mohave State Bank
  • Mortgage Company of Santa Barbara
  • Nara Bank
  • Nebraska Bankers’ Bank
  • Oak Valley Community Bank
  • Pacific City Bank
  • Pacific Coast Bankers Bank
  • Pacific Premier Bank
  • Pacific Western Bank
  • Preferred Bank
  • Rabo Bank
  • Red Capital Bank
  • Renasant Bank
  • Royal Banks of Missouri
  • Royal Business Bank
  •  Saehan Bank
  • Sunflower Bank
  • Union Bank
  •  US Metro Bank
  • Valley Community Bank
  • Velocity Commercial Capital
  • Washington First International Bank
  • Wells Fargo
  • Zions Bank

Receivership, Management & Brokerage Assignments

  • Artisan Hotel – Memphis, TN
  • Baymont Inn – Winchester, KY
  • Beach Inn – Colonial Beach, VA
  • Best Western – Red Wing, MN
  • Best Western – Salem, OR
  • Best Western Airport – Reno, NV
  • Best Western Plus Campus Inn – River Falls, WI
  • Best Western Plus & Conference Center – Dallas, TX
  • Best Western Regency – Marshalltown, IA
  • Clarion Hotel – Renton, WA
  • Clarion Hotel Downtown – Oakland, CA
  • Comfort Inn – Phoenix, AZ
  • Country Inn & Suites – Savannah, GA
  • Crowne Plaza – Tulsa, OK
  • Days Inn – Kansas City, KS
  • Doubletree Hotel – Rosemead, CA
  • Four Points by Sheraton – Culver City, CA
  • Hampton Inn – Cedar City, UT
  • Hampton Inn – Eugene, OR
  • Hampton Inn – Steamboat Springs, CO
  • Hampton Inn & Suites – Douglas, WY
  • Hampton Inn & Suites – Fresno, CA
  • Hampton Inn Tropicana – Las Vegas, NV
  • Hawthorn Suites – Columbus, OH
  • Hilton Garden Inn – Casper, WY
  • Hilton Garden Inn – Mountain View, CA
  • Holiday Inn – Great Falls, MT
  • Holiday Inn – Statesville, NC
  • Holiday Inn Express – Lawrenceburg, IN
  • Holiday Inn Express & Suites – Raton, NM
  • Holiday Inn Express Hunt Lodge – McCall, ID
  • Hotel Molokai – Molokai, HI
  • Howard Johnson – Absecon, NJ
  • Howard Johnson – Albuquerque, NM
  • Howard Johnson – Amarillo, TX
  • Inns of America – Jacksonville, FL
  • Mayfair Suites – St. Louis, MO
  • Microtel Inn & Suites – Prairie du Chien, WI
  • Motel 6 – Goodland, KS
  • Motel 6 – Suwanee, GA
  • Quality Inn – Indianapolis, IN
  • Quality Inn & Suites – Caseyville, IL
  • Quality Inn & Suites – Liberty Lake, WA
  • Quality Inn & Suites – Medina, OH
  • Quality Roof Inn – Montgomery, AL
  • Radisson Hotel – San Jose, CA
  • Ramada – Clinton, OK
  • Ramada – Shreveport, LA
  • Ramada Inn – Coeur d’Alene, ID
  • Ramada Inn – Salt Lake City, UT
  • Ramada Inn – Statesville, NC
  • Ramada Inn – Tucson, AZ
  • Sleep Inn – Evans, CO
  • The Abbey Hotel – Davenport, IA
  • Treasure Coast Inn – Fort Pierce, FL
  • Wildwood Hotel – Wildwood, MO