Joe Findling

Joe is one of the most thorough agents I have worked with. He’s a great negotiator, so needed in todays market. I appreciated that he was honest about the pitfalls of a property, I like to go into a purchase with my eye’s open. I would highly recommend Joe, as an honest, straightforward and calm agent.

Joe is the man. I don’t know how else to put it. I’ve never seen such a high caliber of professionalism, skill and dedication in an agent. Here are a few examples from our experience with Joe:
–We were buying from out of state and Joe went far out of his way to clear his schedule on the weekends to accommodate us, including a marathon Saturday in which we viewed 15 properties.
–When we settled on a HUD home 30 min from Portland, his usual territory, Joe didn’t hesitate to dive right in to the arduous HUD purchase process (btw I don’t recommend it unless you have experience). He also conducted thorough market research — we didn’t even realize this was not his usual territory to operate in until he mentioned it he was that good.
— Once the HUD home fell through, we decided to purchase a lot for well under 100k. Again, no hesitation on Joe’s part despite the obvious lack of compensation that deal would have lead to.
— We ended up going with a beautiful home that met all of our dream criteria — a home Joe found and sent to us after being on the market for mere hours. We were under contract the next day and everything was smooth sailing from that point on.
He is thorough, intelligent and takes pride in what he does. You will NOT be disappointed.

If you are going to buy a property or sell your home you really want to read this review before you sign any contracts with any other brokers. It’s long, but people, you want the very best there is when buying or selling a home and you are going to need this info before you make a decision. We just closed on a property in the NW neighborhood using Joe. We found him on the internet from out of state and his email responses to our inquiries and his level of knowledge were so impressive they sold us on him «sight unseen». We came up last summer and spent an intense 3 days viewing the properties we had pre-​screened and distilled down from Joe’s incredibly broad and careful pre-​search. Joe cleared his schedule to do nothing but show us properties during that time. Nothing panned out then and we decided to just sit tight for the moment. But what our time with Joe last year gave us was a great overview of Portland proper and lots of the surrounding communities. Other brokers might have abandoned the job when we didn’t buy then, but Joe continued to search using our search criteria and he kept us updated with every new property that came on the market. He actively communicated and did MUCH more than simply hook us into an automatic search notification program. In May something looked good so we were ready to resume our search in Portland in person. Joe dropped everything at very short notice to spend another intense couple of long days with us, treating us again like his «VIP out-​of-​town clients». With Joe’s help we negotiated a long distance purchase of our new home. It could have been very stressful. Joe made it a joy and a pleasure. We have bought and sold more than a few properties in 3 states. (My husband has a CA brokers license although he doesn’t actively work in Real Estate.) We have worked with a lot of brokers. Our selling broker in CA was a seasoned pro with several decades of experience in residential home sales and she was phenomenal. Joe Findling was her equal in every way. If you are buying a property, know that Joe will be relentless in searching the market on your behalf. He listens carefully to everything you say and he is adaptive when your criteria changes. (With grace. This is important.) His integrity shines. (Also important! Lots of shady characters in real estate but Joe Findling is not one of them. He is impeccable in word and deed.) You will be very happy to be represented by Joe Findling in your real estate business. He will be our «RE guy for life». He should be yours, too!