http://winecountryandhorses.com/blog/2008/02/04/how-many-miles-of-trails-in-sonoma-county/ Sonoma County wine country real estate, country properties and horse ranches Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:02:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://winecountryandhorses.com/blog/2008/02/04/how-many-miles-of-trails-in-sonoma-county/comment-page-1/#comment-1678 New and Pocket Horse Property Listings In Sonoma County | Wine Country And Horses Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:21:59 +0000 http://winecountryandhorses.com/blog/2008/02/04/how-many-miles-of-trails-in-sonoma-county/#comment-1678 [...] is a pretty healthy amount and not typical. One is in Glen Ellen and sounded interesting due to the proximity to some great riding at Annadel and Jack London State Parks. (See my post on the miles of trails in Sonoma County.)It sits on 4 usable acres with a 4 BR 2 BA [...] [...] is a pretty healthy amount and not typical. One is in Glen Ellen and sounded interesting due to the proximity to some great riding at Annadel and Jack London State Parks. (See my post on the miles of trails in Sonoma County.)It sits on 4 usable acres with a 4 BR 2 BA [...]

]]> http://winecountryandhorses.com/blog/2008/02/04/how-many-miles-of-trails-in-sonoma-county/comment-page-1/#comment-222 Pam Buda, Coldwell Banker Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:09:20 +0000 http://winecountryandhorses.com/blog/2008/02/04/how-many-miles-of-trails-in-sonoma-county/#comment-222 Aw shucks CK, thank you for the nice thoughts. For the sake of accuracy though, you guys deserve credit not only for being so great to work with and fun to spend time with, but you footed a bill for a few of those lunches as well! Cheers, Pam Aw shucks CK, thank you for the nice thoughts. For the sake of accuracy though, you guys deserve credit not only for being so great to work with and fun to spend time with, but you footed a bill for a few of those lunches as well! Cheers, Pam

]]> http://winecountryandhorses.com/blog/2008/02/04/how-many-miles-of-trails-in-sonoma-county/comment-page-1/#comment-137 CK & WH Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:27:25 +0000 http://winecountryandhorses.com/blog/2008/02/04/how-many-miles-of-trails-in-sonoma-county/#comment-137 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”. 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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