Acquire
Find undervalued motels in growth regions and buy with discipline.
Private discussion deck · 2026 venture concept
Tech-enabled motels, built for the AI era.
Max Motels acquires tired, under-optimised motels and turns them into smart, consistent accommodation under one trusted operating brand.
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motels across New Zealand
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average occupancy ceiling before optimisation
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upper-end average daily room rate
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hour automated guest operations target
The idea
Buy overlooked assets. Lift the experience. Systemise the operation.
Most independent motels sit on strong regional real estate, but leak revenue through manual bookings, weak pricing discipline, inconsistent reviews and owner-led operations. Max Motels turns those constraints into a repeatable value-creation playbook.
Opportunity gap
Quality locations with fixable operating drag.
The prize is not just room revenue. It is the capitalised value created when a better business sits on the same property.
The five-step loop
Designed to run the same playbook again and again.
Renovate
Refresh interiors, signage, wayfinding and guest-facing basics to the Max Standard.
Systemise
Install MotelOps from day one across bookings, messaging, rosters and maintenance.
Optimise
Lift ADR, occupancy, reviews and channel performance using a central operating rhythm.
Scale or exit
Refinance, sell on uplifted earnings, or add the asset into a broader freehold strategy.
MotelOps by Max
The operating layer that makes a small motel behave like a chain.
Live operating layer
Demand signal
+18%
Guest response
00:08
Roster fill
94%
Review trend
4.6
Guest communications
Enquiries, confirmations, check-in and check-out handled around the clock.
Revenue management
Pricing flexes with seasonality, local events, lead time and channel demand.
Centralised operations
Cleaning schedules, contractor dispatch and maintenance routines coordinated from one rhythm.
Reputation engine
Reviews, complaints and guest recovery treated as operating data, not afterthoughts.
Roadmap
One motel proves the model. The platform creates the upside.
Prove it
Acquire one Christchurch-area leasehold motel, validate operations hands-on, and harden MotelOps in the real world.
Scale it
Build a freehold motel fund to acquire, renovate and hold the underlying real estate where the larger value creation sits.
Multiply it
Franchise the Max Motel brand and license MotelOps to independent operators beyond owned assets.
Where value is created
Improve the operation, then re-rate the asset underneath it.
A motel business can produce useful cash flow. The larger upside appears when better earnings change the valuation story of the freehold property beneath it.
One-off
Property flips
Business flips
Recurring
Fund fees
Franchise fees
Software licensing
Who is behind it
Property discipline meets accommodation operations.
Jacob Power
Driving strategy, deal sourcing, analysis and capital. Hands-on property investor with renovation, refinancing and value-add experience, supported by a custom motel deal analyser and acquisition playbook.
Stefan Nikolic
Founder of Zodiak Management, a 100-plus property short-term-rental operator with proven centralised guest services, revenue management and channel operations.
The short version
A fragmented, ageing market. A repeatable playbook. An operating layer built for lean scale.
Start in New Zealand, prove the first asset, then build toward a motel fund, brand network and software revenue layer.