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Contact Information
Phone: 707 527-8300
Email: pambuda@gmail.com
Pam’s background I moved to Sonoma County from the Bay Area in 1999, after spending many weekends and holidays with friends throughout the county. I decided to trade in my Bay view and Silicon Valley and SFO commuting for a small ranch in the wine country northwest of Santa Rosa, with close proximity to Healdsburg, Sebastopol, Windsor, Kenwood, Glen Ellen and Sonoma. I went from selling and marketing software and technogy to marketing properties for sellers and finding country and horse properties for a wide range of buyers, many of whom have bought weekend getaways or who haved moved to the Wine Country full time.This Site and Homescopes Real Estate BlogMy wish for this blog and the informal network of Coldwell Banker agents I am affiliated with at Homescopes.com is that we provide our communities, clients, potential neighbors, friends and associates a way to stay on top of the diverse local real estate markets in Northern California. Also, we want to share the unique local flavor of our various counties and communities that we enjoy so much.Wine Country and Horses….Horses and Wine Country???Well, the main rationale for moving here from the Bay Area is that my back yard was not big enough for my horse, and I was tired of boarding her at a stable a half hour away. Also as a kid growing up in New York I had the crazy idea that I wanted a farm. No one in my family is quite sure how that happend, but it did. Anyway, one un-scheduled December day in 1998, I went driving to see what kind of farm I could trade my home for in Sonoma, Napa or Marin counties. The fact that I could afford to make the move and have plenty of room for horses, gardening, grapes as well as to be close to a variety of great restaurants and lots of things to do, plus only an hour from the Golden Gate Bridge, seemed like a logical next step. Within 6 months I had made the move, and by August my horse was safely ensconced at home with me. Pam’s background Prior to establishing her real estate business, she spent over 20 years in high level marketing and sales in the software and internet business, developing and implementing marketing and sales strategies for companies such as Macromedia, Lotus Development and Borland. Since 2003, she has applied her skills and experience to the effective representation of home sellers and buyers in Sonoma County. Her network includes experienced realtors in Napa and Lake Counties as well as elsewhere in California. Her experience negotiating with large corporations such as American Airlines, Chevron Corporation, Boeing and Bank of America and in crafting innovative product launches lend themselves to excellent representation of her real estate clients.Pam is a country property owner, grape grower and horsewoman thrilled to live and work in Sonoma County. Areas of Expertise Contract and Deal Negotiation |
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| From: Jeffrey Johnson Terry Loveton, Sebastopol Date: April 25, 2008 |
Pam does an amazing job and we would highly recommend her to anyone needing a thoroughly knowledgeable realtor with excellent marketing skills. She is willing to go the extra mile as we found out after 3 successful transactions buying one and selling two properties in less than a year. |
| From: CK WH Date: April 25, 2008 |
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For anyone hitting this blog because they are considering buying a house with horse property, you are onto the best kept secret of location and person power. Well, I guess its not really a secret given Google these days, but having to write most of time for work I usually avoid spending any additional time at the computer crafting responses/testimonials/ etc..I'd rather be out riding a cross country course! However, Pam was such an extraordinary real estate agent that I can't resist singing her praises so more stellar horse people end up in Sonoma County. Perhaps you are like us, two horses, two SF based jobs, thinking that you had to wait until retirement to get into a nice horse property. In the meantime you are writing those hefty boarding checks each month for small stalls, limited turnout, extra charges for trailer parking, blanketing, less and less places to ride outside of an arena, etc. Not true! We thought we couldn't afford anything within commuting distance to SF but Pam changed that perception and made it a reality. With tight work schedules, competing demands on free time and a budget, we were probably not a real estate agent's dream couple, and we were very, very picky about what kind of place we envisioned as ideal for the horses and ourselves. Pam was exceptional. She sent frequent email postings of properties, worked completely around our work/horse showing schedule, lined us up with talented bankers, insightful consultants, crunched numbers for us, fed us at fabulous restaurants to keep the energy levels up and never complained that she wasn’t out riding when we made her drive us around every square inch of two counties on the weekend. She is extremely bright (that helps with complicated country property purchases where the contracts read like IRS manuals), perceptive (figured out what we liked and didn’t like faster than we did), knowledgeable (had or found the answers to every horse/property question that we came up with) and was lotsa fun in the process (and I think house buying is a pain to be honest). Did I mention she is also persistent? We would never have ended up in our fantastic 5 acre place with such happy horses if we hadn't finally followed her advice that we see this one property "that I think has everything you want". Well we saw it, bought it, and as they say in the fairy tales of old, lived happily every after. |
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