Portland's Alternative Realtors

Last fall 2021, when I had little or no knowledge of the Portland real estate market, I gave Erica a big task: to find me good Portland investment properties in a competitive market to meet the time requirements of a tax deferred 1031 like/kind exchange. Within two months we purchased three properties, two duplexes and a townhouse. Erica had all the resources needed at her finger tips to select, evaluate, inspect and recommend good candidates, negotiate prices and close the deals to meet a tight schedule. Amazing!! And so easy and fun to work with! Thanks again, Erica.

We can’t recommend Amy and Portland Alternative highly enough! This was our first home buying experience and the bar has been set incredibly high. Amy took such good care to make us feel informed and help us set realistic and comfortable expectations. We ended up in a great first home that met our needs, and the process felt much easier than expected thanks to Amy’s expertise. We’d definitely work with her again and will be recommending her to everyone we know in the area who might be looking for a home of their own!

Hands down the best experience partnering with Emma and Erica. I was a first time home buyer and they guided me through the process with ease and professionalism. They put in the work to help me find the right home and once I found it’d they went above and beyond to help me lock it in. I feel like I found a true dream team and highly recommend their services and expertise. Literally can not say enough great things about this duo! Emma and Erica were recommended to me by a former neighbor who they helped to get her dream home.

We had the pleasure of working with Erica to buy our first home and can’t recommend her enough! She was a true partner in the process, incredibly knowledgeable, patient but ready to move fast when the time came! and supportive. We bought in the early days of the pandemic, when everything felt very uncertain, and we couldn’t have asked for a better guide. Erica’s expertise was apparent at every stage of the process, from helping us figure out our priorities and deal-breakers, to confidently navigating winning offers in an incredibly competitive market and setting us up with awesome contractors and pros post-sale. We are very happy in our home now and if anything should change we would hope to work with Erica again in the future!

I feel grateful beyond measure to have been referred to Leia and Pat at Portland’s Alternative Realtors. Leia is probably better at her job as a broker and realtor than any other person I have met in ANY given job, real estate or otherwise. As first time home owners, buying during the holiday season with high interest rates, my husband and I felt an overwhelming sense of calm knowing that we were in such knowledgeable and thorough hands. I felt like Pat and Leia helped us through what otherwise would have been an overwhelming process to find the right house for us, they accommodated our many requests for inspections and contractor quotes ahead of the final close date. They knew how important this decision was for us, and took it just as seriously as we did, all the while working generously with their time to meet our short timeline… Thanks to Leia and Pat, we were able to close early on our home, and move in in time for the holidays. It felt more like working with family because of how genuinely invested they were in our happiness and satisfaction and never made us feel pressured to move quicker than we were ready and kept both my husband and I completely informed. We love our home and I wouldn’t trust anyone else with a home buying or selling decision besides Leia and Pat. They make such a good team!

I had the joy of working with Erica Dagle to find my dream home in Portland. She was so kind and patient as I looked at many different neighborhoods and types of homes. When it came time to bid, she guided me perfectly in what to offer and she did all the paperwork so quickly for a wonderfully easy escrow experience. She always answered my many! questions quickly and clearly, and honestly was a joy to just hang out with and look at houses! I cannot recommend her enough. She is a wonderful partner in what can be a very confusing and overwhelming experience.

Having bought and sold multiple homes in the Portland metro area 7 transactions in the last 10 years, all with Erica Dagle, we couldn’t be happier with the end results. Erica is a true professional. When we were on the selling side, she coached us on how to prep our home for sale without going overboard, assisted us with staging our home’s so they were more marketable, and elegant and helped us to understand the current market so we could sell quickly and receive a price we felt very good about. When we were on the buying side, Erica responded quickly and helped us keep our cool when the market was mega hot.

Erica Dagle was the most wonderful ally and guide when I purchased my first home in April 2022. She was direct, diplomatic, and very detail oriented. She arranged multiple contractor bids, worked around my busy schedule, and kept my best interests at heart! I also loved meeting her colleagues Emma Frazier and Jenn Gaultry Wilson, who helped show me different properties. I’ve recommended Erica to my friends and colleagues and look forward to working with her again.

Erica is great at her job and made it a breeze for us to sell our Portland condo. We had moved across the country and she worked with our tenants seamlessly and made the entire process stress free! She is professional and knowledgeable about the Portland real estate market and everything moved along at a timely and efficient pace.

My husband and I had a phenomenal experience working with Colleen Glaab of Portland's Alternative Realtors to buy our home, and we highly recommend her! Colleen is smart, super-organized, a great communicator, very knowledgeable about the PDX market, calm under pressure, and a very effective negotiator. She was a terrific partner for us when we relocated to Portland, answering countless questions about neighborhoods, sharing insights about homes based on her renovation experience, and negotiating a successful purchase on our behalf. Thanks to Colleen, we found and bought the perfect place, and we're so appreciative. We would definitely work with her again!