A modern bedroom with warm wood accents and soft lighting

Your home, run the way a great hotel is run.


Secondletter Group manages residences, household staff and projects for private clients and family offices in Los Angeles.

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Secondletter Group

Most problems in a large home aren't about the house. They're about people, vendors and details that slip when no one owns them. We own them.

What We Do


Dark wood panelling and bookshelves inside a residence

Estate Management

The day-to-day running of the residence: staff, vendors, maintenance and household budgets. One point of contact who knows the house as well as you do.

Pressed white linens on a neatly made bed

Household Staffing & Advisory

Recruiting, vetting and placing house managers, chefs, housekeepers and drivers. Plus team structure, compensation benchmarks and inventory of fine assets.

Warm wood cabinetry in a residential kitchen

Renovation & Project Oversight

We act as your owner's representative: design coordination, schedules, budgets and permits, held to the finish you're paying for.

A candlelit dinner table set for a private gathering

Private Events at Home

Dinners, celebrations and gatherings, from planning and staffing to the house being back in order the next morning.

Brian Mathis, founder of Secondletter Group

Brian Mathis, Founder


Brian spent twenty years inside some of the most demanding hospitality operations in the country. He ran operations across five Tao Group properties, was Controller at Soho House West Hollywood, led purchasing at The Hollywood Roosevelt, and managed events at Crosby Street Hotel. Before that, he ran operations for the 40/40 Club in New York, Atlantic City and Las Vegas.

Secondletter brings that standard home: the same systems, the same discretion, for a household of one family instead of a hotel of five hundred guests.

How We Work


01

Listen

We start in person. We meet you or your office, walk the property and learn how the house is actually lived in.

02

Plan

Staffing, vendors, schedules and budget, written down and agreed before anything changes.

03

Run

Then we run it, with a weekly report and a phone that gets answered.

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Every inquiry is handled personally and in confidence. We're glad to sign an NDA before we talk.