About me
Stephen J. Donell, CPM®, ARM®, CCIM is President of Jalmar Properties. Inc., FedReceiver, Inc., and Donell Expert Services, Inc. Mr. Donell has administered and/or been appointed by courts in over 900 cases. Mr. Donell has decades of experience in receivership matters involving residential and commercial real estate, asset and business operations and liquidations, oil and gas partnerships, post judgment enforcement actions, hotel/motel, assisted living facilities, single family and condominium construction completion/entitlements, gas station/c-stores, marital dissolutions, sub-standard housing, complex partnership disputes and appointments in federal court as receiver in numerous actions filed by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and criminal cases including the California Dept. of Justice and other government enforcement actions. In addition, Mr. Donell has served as a provisional director, provisional member, dissolution manager, probate administrator, interim probate trustee and partition referee and property management standard of care expert witness. Jalmar has management in excess of 10,000 apartment units and over 15 million SF of commercial property since its founding approximately 40 years ago.
He is a past Co-President of the Los Angeles/Orange County chapter of the California Receivers Forum (CRF), a current CRF Board Member and Past President of National Association of Federal Equity Receivers (NAFER). Mr. Donell also serves as a property management standard of care expert witness and is President of Donell Expert Services, Inc.