Our Story:

Dead Fish.

Our story really starts with dead fish. In the summer of 1980 while swimming on the shores of Lake Oswego at their parents home, John and Quinn Nieland were hired by then Lake Warden Chuck Schaefer to clean fish and debris from in front of lakefront homes. Although they spent much of the time arguing over who would drive the boat and who would do the actual hauling of the fish, a real appreciation of the fine homes that they were working in front of started to take shape.

Their Mother Erin had started selling real estate in 1969 and the boys worked on many family remodeling projects with their father Kirk, upgrading the investment homes that their parents had purchased. Hard work and an entrepreneurial spirit became the focus as the brothers worked summers building docks, performing small remodeling projects and doing inspection repairs for the local realtors. Their company was aptly named "Destructo Brothers" because their initial clients, probably wisely at the time, only trusted the energetic brothers to demolish things.

The local boys worked hard in school and sports, each winning three district Track and Field titles, John in Javelin and Quinn in High Jump. Both played for Coach Tom Smythe during the Lakeridge High School Football Dynasty years, playing in two State Championship Finals. The hard work paid off and the brothers ended up teammates once again, this time at UCLA where they were members of the two time National Championship Track and Field team, while in their later college years became founding members of the UCLA Tournament Waterski Team. The long workout runs through Beverly Hills and Belair plus trips throughout California and surrounding states to spectacular waterfront communities for tournaments gave them further appreciation of fine homes. Finally, with degrees in Economics, Psychology and Business the foundation had been laid to launch their entrepreneurial ventures with serious force.

Well, not quite yet. With the mantra "the only good suit is a wetsuit" John and Quinn avoided working real jobs for a couple of years after graduation, instead utilizing their skiing and business experience to become managers/instructors at various water ski schools; John in England, Italy, Florida and California and Quinn in Australia and California. Surfing and skiing in far away places without a care in the world can get a bit monotonous, right? Not really, but a call from their father one day held a gentle recommendation that they start using their education and help their mother in her booming Real Estate Business.

So, in the early 1990's John and Quinn started building Real Estate portfolios for clients and for themselves. With a measured analytical approach and lots of hands on experience the business has grown steadily ever since. Purchasing, remodeling, renting and leveraging investment homes has not been a glamorous task, and Johns breakfast special for years seemed to be his famous "sheetrock dust" pancakes, thanks to the fine art of preparing food while living in a construction zone. The real boost for the business was the addition of their wives, Kim and Nicole. With good business instincts and an even better sense for design, they added the final component to the property portfolio: style. Kim has been able to direct the subtle changes to the family and client portfolios that made all the difference in value and top rental success. From things as simple as landscaping, color palates and staging, to more ambitious modifications such as opening up a kitchen wall to create an eating bar into a dining room or changing a master bedroom window to French doors with a deck, her insight has been successful time and again for quickly securing quality tenancy or maximizing value when selling.

Now, as the years have gone by we find ourselves with a vast array of properties, including three lakefront homes and properties stretching from the base of Mt. Hood to Palm Desert and Hawaii. We have brokered close to 100 Million dollars in real estate sales for ourselves and our clients and manage dozens of properties. Our clients love us because we are firm but fair, are approachable and love what we do.

For you, one of the biggest issues with investment property is finding a property management firm that understands the investment process and can draw upon personal experience of not just property management but the bigger picture of Portfolio Management. Knowing how, when and why to leverage, buy, sell and lease a property is a lot more intricate than simply renting out a home. A property management company must be in tune with not only the rental market, but the overall real estate and financial markets as well. They must have corporate partnerships in order to attract the best renters and have a proven and experienced web marketing division, leveraging the newest technology and web sites to broadcast the properties to the largest audience possible to avoid vacancies. They should understand that first and foremost it is about securing the best tenants as quickly as possible for maximum rent, but should never forget that these are also investments and should be managed and protected as such.

So trust us with what is probably your most valuable asset. We are local and we have portfolios of our own. We draw upon our history of construction, leveraging, risk management, purchasing, selling, marketing and renting of properties. We have been doing this for nearly two decades. This is who we are and what we do.