About Us
Rohman Development & Management were founded by Robert (Bob) Rohdie and a group of veteran professionals to develop multifamily, for-rent residential communities in the southeastern United States. These communities will range in size from 200+ apartments to 350+ apartments. Bob Rohdie and his team have developed over 30,000 apartments in the last 25 years in residential areas throughout the southeast.
The partners of Rohman Development & Management are convinced that there is an opportunity to create vibrant and thriving residential for-lease communities and they welcome the fun, fast-paced work environment that developing apartments brings to their lives. Rohman will identify sites, hire general contractors, arrange financing and oversee the construction of every development. All phases of marketing, lease-up and operations of the properties will be performed in-house by Rohman Management. Rohman plans to develop four to six multifamily, for-rent projects per year with a goal of developing 6,000± apartments over the next five years.
Leadership Bios:
Robert (Bob) Rohdie
Robert (Bob) Rohdie graduated from NYU Law School in 1965 and practiced law for seven years as a real estate attorney for J C Penney Corp., Prime Motors and Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette.
In 1972, Bob formed The Rohdie Company, a multifaceted real estate company that developed and managed properties in the northeast, Michigan and Texas. In 1985, he and a partner formed Coastal Equity Development Corporation (CED), a Florida-based development company. CED developed office buildings, condominiums and multifamily rental properties throughout the south and east.
Beginning in 1996, Bob developed multifamily housing as Rohdhouse Investments. Because of the excellent reputation and financial success of his many projects, Tarragon Corporation, a public real estate company traded on the NASDAQ, offered to enter into a joint venture with Rohdhouse in 1998. With Tarragon, Bob developed over 16,000 multifamily rental apartments and 2,000 for-sale residences in the southeast. In 2000, Rohdhouse merged with Tarragon and Bob was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Tarragon Development Corporation. He was also appointed to the Board of Directors.
Ron Leichtner
Prior to joining Rohman Management, Ron was an Executive Vice President at Tarragon Corporation, a publicly traded real estate company. He joined Tarragon in 2002 and was responsible for all capital market transactions, corporate and project acquisitions and joint ventures. Before Tarragon, Ron was a managing partner at Omni Development Company and its affiliate, Omni Funding Corporation, where he originated and placed real estate finance transactions in addition to developing properties. During a 20-year career in real estate, Ron has completed more than $3 billion in transactions nationwide.
Jennifer Nevitt Casey
Jennifer Nevitt Casey leads the property management and marketing teams at Rohman Management. Jennifer advises on product design and development, correct market positioning and successful leasing strategies. Her extensive experience ranges from site selection to market research, product design directives, construction drawing plan reviews, identification of the unique selling proposition in each market, positioning the real estate asset within its micro market and establishing formal, best marketing and leasing practices.
In addition to being a Partner at Rohman, Jennifer is also Chief Executive Officer of Bravo Strategic Marketing, Inc. Since 1993, she has developed return-on-investment strategies for real estate investment portfolios with a capitalized value exceeding $6 billion.
Jennifer is nationally known in the multifamily arena as well as for-sale housing circles. She is rated as one of the top presenters for the Urban Land Institute’s Residential Development workshops as well as the International Builders' Show. She was a contributing co-author of Urban Land Institute’s book entitled, “Multifamily Development Handbook,” and a contributing co-author of the National Association of Home Builders’ book entitled, “How to Excel at Leasing Apartments.”
Steven Littman
Steven Littman began his career in human resources with major retail corporations, including Federated Department Stores. Steven founded Rhodes Associates, the fifteenth largest executive search firm in the United States, where he currently serves as President and Chief Executive Officer. During his 30-year career in executive search, he has completed more than 800 executive search and organizational consulting assignments, focusing mainly on the real estate industry.
In 1991, Steven was one of the founding partners of Rockwood Realty. Rockwood provides a broad range of research-driven real estate investment banking services to institutional and private investor clients on a national and global basis. The firm was sold to DTZ in 2005 at a valuation of approximately $100 million. DTZ Rockwood is a full service real estate investment banking firm headquartered in New York with offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, Orlando, Palm Beach Gardens and Mexico City. Steven holds a B.A. from New York University.
