Moving from the Washington DC area to Portland Oregon presented the challenge on how to find and purchase a condo in a short period of time. Fortunately, my east coast real estate agent referred me to Blake Ellis who helped me the overcome this challenge in three weeks. Blake worked with me while still being out east by identifying a list of properties on sale based on a set of criteria that I had, one of them being it had to be in the city. He listened to my comments about the list presented and refined the next list accordingly. By the time I arrived in Portland, we had the list down to three properties, which we visited the next day after my arrival and I chose one of the three. Now the purchase process started. Blake was very efficient during all phases. He was very supportive and realistic during the purchase price negotiations and made the whole process of completing all the paperwork to go to settlement very easy. In short, three weeks after my arrival in Portland I was the proud owner of a condo in the city of Portland. If and or when the time comes for me to move on, I will call on Blake to help me through the sale and purchase of another property.