Make a smarter property decision. Understand the forces behind your money. Set out on a journey with old friends. Discover books by Brent E. Maxson.
The Plex Seller’s Guide
Practical guides, journeys with old friends, and remarkable lives that invite us to laugh and think.
Five guides for the different stages of small multifamily ownership, written from Brent’s experience as a real estate broker in Oregon and Washington since 1992.
Hold, improve, refinance, or sell? A framework for weighing the choices in front of you.
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Study the numbers, financing, operations, and long view behind a small multifamily investment.
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Build practical systems for tenants, maintenance, records, and the daily work of ownership.
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04Evaluate a duplex, triplex, or fourplex before making the commitment to buy.
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The History Behind Everyday Money
Brent Maxson explores the forces that shape the money we earn, spend, save, and borrow—from the history of money to the Federal Reserve, inflation, and interest rates.
A plain-language look at how economic decisions connect with everyday life.
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Sixty Years of Friendship, Fishing, Healing, and One More Adventure
When an old friend asks you to come to Mexico, you go. Brent Maxson, John Gregos, and John Price grew up near Cherry Park in Southeast Portland. More than sixty years later, their friendship carries them to fishing boats on the Baja Peninsula and to Lake Chapala, where John is receiving rehabilitation.
Through photographs, fish stories, shared meals, and honest conversations about health and independence, Brent tells a warm, personal story about showing up for one another—and finding that the road ahead is still open.
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What Socrates, Zhuangzi & Bodhidharma Can Teach Us Today
Meet three thinkers whose ideas cross centuries and cultures. Socrates invites us to question what we assume we know; Zhuangzi opens fresh perspectives through stories and paradox; Bodhidharma points toward direct insight and the discipline of attention.
An accessible exploration of Greek, Chinese, and Buddhist wisdom—and an invitation to bring curiosity, reflection, and a more examined approach to everyday life.
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Mark Twain · Will Rogers · George Carlin
Three remarkable voices. Three different generations. One invitation: laugh—and think. From Twain’s sharp satire to Rogers’s cowboy wit and Carlin’s fearless examination of language and authority, Brent explores three different ways of turning laughter into insight.
Biographical storytelling, historical photographs, and thoughtful commentary illuminate the questions their humor raises about politics, religion, patriotism, consumerism, freedom of speech, and human nature. Enjoy the laughter. Stay for the questions.
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Brent’s memory of standing with his father at a Fairbanks gold mine begins an imagined journey into the life of the steppe bison preserved beneath the permafrost.
A broker who writes about the decisions people actually face.
Brent has worked in Oregon and Washington real estate since 1992, with a particular focus on small multifamily property in the Portland area. The Plex Series draws on that experience to make complex choices easier to examine.
Maxson Publishing also gives Brent a place for another kind of work: preserving the stories of friends, family, travel, and discoveries that deserve to be told.