The Sanchez Team

11112 NE Halsey Street
Portland, OR 97220

Flourishing by referrals
since 1979

Fred Sanchez is the designated broker of Realty Brokers' offices in Oregon, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Colorado, South Dakota, Nebraska and Wyoming.  

Since 1973, Fred has lived on a twenty-five acre farm in Troutdale, Oregon, raising cows, turkeys, chickens and ducks. The family run Troutdale Farms is a sustainable operation located in fertile fields at the mouth of the Columbia River Gorge. Their lean and luscious beef comes from free-range Hereford and Angus mix cattle are born and raised at Troutdale Farms. The calves naturally suckle their mother’s milk for up to a year and the herd spends their entire lives grazing and roaming freely on a series of grass pastures during the growing season and fed home-grown grass hay during the winter months.  Their diet and gentle care produces fine and healthy meat. No growth stimulants, animal byproducts, synthetic pesticides, herbicides, chemicals, antibiotics or hormones are used. Troutdale Farms uses a low stress approach to animal handling, understanding them and nature to prevent disease and produce simply the best naturally grown meat.            “When you measure the nutrient content of meat from factory-farmed, grain-fed animals, you’ll find that it’s very low in heart-healthy, Omega-4 fatty acids. These are the miracle nutrients that have been shown to protect your body from heart disease, cancer and even Alzheimer’s. Nature did not design cattle to eat grain, and when they’re forced to do it, their meat becomes unhealthy for us.  But it’s a totally different story for red meat from grass-fed animals.  It turns out to be amazingly high in the good stuff. In fact, meat from nearly any grass-fed animal is so incredibly high in healthy Omega-3, even wild salmon pales in comparison.” Dr. William Douglass

Troutdale Farms/Realty Brokers gives meat and eggs to clients, family and friends and donates thousands of pounds of naturally grown beef to Raffles and Auctions of local schools and charities.

 Fred commutes often to his condo in Albuquerque, New Mexico and offices in the other states.

Ann Marie, his wife since 1962, assists him in real estate and more. Their eleven children (seven boys and four girls), eighteen grandchildren, and two great grandchildren are the joy of their lives.

Fred was born in Los Angeles, California during the World War II years. Homesick for their birthplaces, his parents, Ted and Josie moved back to Los Chavez, New Mexico when Fred was four years old. While his father grilled the steaks and his mother waited tables at their family-owned restaurant and lounge, the Owl Steak House, their only son practiced the piano and skinny-dipped in the irrigation ditch of the Rio Grande River.

As the winner of local, state and national classical piano competitions, Fred won a scholarship to Chaminade High School in Los Angeles. There he studied with Jose and Amparo Iturbi and Ethel Bartlett Robertson, appearing on the Lawrence Welk show and as a piano concerto soloist with symphony orchestras. The University of Portland in Oregon offered Fred an enticing scholarship package. During his freshman year he met his wife to be. Ann Marie enrolled during the second semester at U of P and Fred approached her on her first day, dressed in his Air Force ROTC uniform. He earnestly announced that he had been assigned to escort her to all her classes during her first week . . . . and the rest is history.

Fred's first real job was as a music teacher at several parochial grade schools. To support his growing family, he worked summers and weekends as a property tax assessor in Columbia County, St. Helen's, Oregon and then at the Portland Branch of the Bank of Tokyo as an Operations Manager.

They bought their own home and the business location. As soon as they were able to qualify for loans, they began to purchase investment real estate. Early on, Fred recognized the value of real estate and began to take classes in appraisal, real estate law and financing.

In 1966, Fred and Ann opened a music, art and dance studio in the Gateway area of Portland. With their young children underfoot, it was only natural that they began to offer preschool and day care programs. In 1977, after selling the day care business, Fred became a real estate agent and later an appraiser. He first sold business opportunities exclusively, and then expanded his expertise to include residential, commercial and land sale. When two of his fellow agents approached him with the prospect of forming their own company, Fred enthusiastically agreed. In 1979 they formed SKW Co., named after the three founders Sanchez, Klinger, Welsh. John Welsh and Carl Klinger were terrific mentors and when they retired, Fred bought the company and became President of the family owned corporation.

Fred's always been active in the community. When his children were younger, Fred served with the Scouts, Little League and was a member of the Corbett School Board for many years. Fred now serves on several boards of business and charitable organizations. 

Music is still Fred’s avocation and he often entertains friends with classical piano music.  In August of 2008, he earned his freedom as a Prisoner with Gateway’s cavorting Keystone Kops as a soloist at CONCERT IN THE PARKS at Ventura in Portland.

Please call Fred at the Oregon office at (503) 256-3910 or anywhere at 1 (800) 999-8909 or on his cellular at (503) 803-3707 or email him at FredASanchez@aol.com