Who You Work With
A dedicated analyst, not a hand-off.
When you engage OurCastle, you work directly with the person doing the work. No junior team inherits your file after you sign.
Nick Dolbilov, CRP - Director
Certified Reserve Planner and Asset Management Analyst.
Nick leads OurCastle as a Certified Reserve Planner credentialed through the Real Estate Institute of Canada and UBC, with more than eight years assessing buildings and building the long-range plans that keep their organizations sustainable. The person who inspects your building is the same person who builds the financial model and presents the findings to you, which is why answers stay consistent and questions get resolved on the first call.
His background spans reserve planning, building science, and the governance side of capital decisions, including years supporting housing providers through long-term capital and retrofit challenges. That mix is the point: a reserve plan is only useful when the building science, the numbers, and the decisions Owners have to make all line up. Every recommendation is grounded in objectivity, no-nonsense pragmatism, and long-term thinking.
Credentials & Training
Qualified to the standards your report is judged by.
Reserve planning sits where building science, finance, and governance meet. The training behind every OurCastle report reflects all three.
Certified Reserve Planner (CRP)
Real Estate Institute of Canada & UBC. The credential purpose-built for reserve and Depreciation Report work.Sustainable Energy Management & Construction
Advanced Certificate, British Columbia Institute of Technology. Building science and energy performance.B.A., Business Administration & Management
Washington State University. The financial and organizational grounding behind every funding model.In reserve planning & asset management
Reserve Fund Studies, Asset Management Plans, and retrofit oversight for residential, commercial, and non-profit clients.What We Stand For
Four commitments behind every report.
These are not slogans. They are the reasons a volunteer can take an OurCastle report to an annual general meeting and stand behind it.
Independent of the trades
We do not sell the renewals we recommend. The analysis follows the building and the Owners, never a product or a contractor’s order book.
Written to be read
A reserve study should clarify a decision, not bury it. Our reports are built so any Owner can follow the logic without a translator.
Direct access, end to end
One credentialed analyst from the first conversation through delivery and the updates that follow. You always know who is answering.
Defensible, every line
Built to recognized reserve-study standards and grounded in an on-site inspection, so the plan holds up to scrutiny from Owners and regulators alike.
Who We Serve
The people who carry a building forward.
We work with the volunteers and professionals responsible for a building’s long-term health, and we tailor how we communicate to each of them.
- Strata Councils and condo Boards who need a plan they can defend at the annual general meeting.
- Owners who want to understand what their building needs and what it will take to fund it.
- Property Managers who need a dependable partner and clean deliverables for the corporations they support.
- Developers and non-profit housing providers planning for the full life of an asset.