Marie Merkley comes to the Real Estate profession from a culturally rich and diverse background.She was born and raised in the metropolis of Berlin, Germany, and extensively traveled beforesettling in Oregon. She first came to the U.S. as an exchange student at the age of 16, to satisfy herearly desire for personal growth, novelty, and adventure.Formerly an assistant horse-trainer at Lodi, California’s “Sargent Equestrian Center”, specializing inproblem-horses, she continued to practice her love for starting and training Draft horses at“Seventh Heaven Shires” in Keno, OR, before marrying her husband Michael Merkley in 2016. Thetwo are raising their two children Liam (10) and Mila (7) in a ranch-setting in Bonanza, OR.There, his family’s long history of raising cattle and breeding quality ranch horses, continues toinspire her love for great horses and an authentic lifestyle…