The Principal

Richard D. Solis Jr.

Founder Sole Member Trustee of Solis Legacy Holdings, LLC

Richard David Solis Jr. in his study

A Texas operator

A native Texan, born in Cuero. The Solis name has been building in Texas for a generation. My father founded and operates Solis Building and Development, a residential and multifamily developer across South Texas. I grew up inside that business. I learned to read a set of plans before I learned to price a deal, and I came to underwriting the same way I came to everything else: from the job site inward.

Professional background

Before forming Solis Legacy Holdings, I spent six years as Project Manager at Solis Building and Development, with hands on more than fifty single-family and multifamily projects across the San Antonio metro and millions in aggregate residential development value. Preceding that construction tenure were five years in hospitality and operations management, where I built the customer-facing discipline and operational rhythm that shape how Solis Legacy approaches every engagement today: hands-on accountability, direct relationships, and long-term patience over transactional opportunism.

Education and credentials

I hold an Associate of Applied Science in Public Administration from the Alamo Colleges and a Bachelor of Arts in Administration from the University of the Incarnate Word. I am an ICC-certified B1 Residential Building Inspector, credentialed through the International Code Council. A Juris Doctor application is pending at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University.

The credentials are intentional. The trustee is licensed to read code against the asset, not just the spreadsheet, and is on a path to read contract language with the same rigor the underwriting demands.

The trust mandate

Solis Legacy Holdings, LLC is organized in New Mexico and held by a private family trust I serve as trustee of. The entity exists to acquire, hold, and steward long-duration assets under a single fiduciary framework: conservative leverage, durable cash flow, and intentional governance. Capital is deployed cautiously and reinvested patiently. Every counterparty relationship is approached with the assumption that it will outlast the transaction that opened it.

Where actively managed investment vehicles report performance quarterly, the trust measures returns in decades. There are no committees, no offshore intermediaries, and no chains of delegation between the inquiry and the answer. Counterparties, lenders, and brokers deal with one principal at every step.

Forward posture

Solis Legacy is structured for direct, balance-sheet ownership of long-duration assets, not for syndicating outside capital or extending private credit. Relationships with banks, private credit providers, and institutional capital partners are treated as multi-deal and long-term, not transactional. The decade ahead is focused on three things: deepening the trust's footprint in long-duration real estate and operating interests, reinvesting durable cash flow into the same kinds of assets, and maintaining the operational and documentary discipline that makes the entity easy for a serious lender to underwrite.

Under NDA

Full track-record detail, entity filings, capital position, banking relationships, counsel of record, insurance, and continuity plans are available to qualified lenders, institutional partners, and professional advisors under NDA, typically within five business days of a first substantive conversation.

When you read this entity's paper, you are reading my hand.

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