You have orders. Your home needs to sell. I’ve done this hundreds of times.

I’m Alexis “Lexie” Dindal — Compass Military Division Realtor with 25+ years of experience, specializing in helping military families sell before they PCS and maximize their outcome before they leave.

I didn't start out planning to sell real estate. I started out scuba diving in the Florida Keys, tracking nutrient plumes for wastewater management studies.

I grew up in Pittsburgh, earned a BS in Biology with a minor in Marine Science from Penn State, then a Master's in Environmental Science and Management from Duquesne — sustainability-focused, with extensive field work in Costa Rica. For years, my work was hands-on, scientific, and outdoors: data, ecosystems, fieldwork that didn't care about your excuses if the conditions changed on you.

Then I met a Navy officer on a salsa dance floor in Pittsburgh, while he was finishing dental school at the University of Pittsburgh. He commissioned. We got orders. And the skill set I'd built — read the environment, adapt the plan, execute precisely under conditions you don't control — turned out to be exactly what military life demands.

Pennsylvania. Japan. Hawaii. California. Four duty stations, more moves than that, and a front-row seat to what a PCS actually requires of a family: not just packing boxes, but rebuilding a whole life on someone else's timeline.

That experience — plus raising two children through adoption, one of whom is part of our EFMP journey — is the actual foundation of how I work with military families now. I'm not selling you a real estate process I read about. I've lived the version where orders drop and everything has to move at once, where "stable community" and "continuity of care" aren't nice-to-haves, they're the whole decision.