Cindy Brandon - EcoBroker, GRI, CRS, ePro

About Cindy:

Cindy Brandon is a full time professional Broker Associate. She represents clients with Real Estate investments from $200k to more than $20 million. Many of Cindy's transactions are highly complex including country properties, commercial property, environmental issues, real estate portfolio disposition, and more.

Cindy has a strong background and interest in "green" real estate, helping buyers and sellers realize the hidden value of "green" features in real estate. She is a certified Green Building Professional and EcoBroker.

Cindy's first career was as a certified public accountant. She consulted with Fortune 100 companies and nationally recognized firms including General Electric, Beatrice and KPMG. She has lived in Spain and Germany and has traveled extensively worldwide. She holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BSC from DePaul University.

Her extensive business experience has honed her negotiating, marketing and analytical skills. Clients appreciate her financial expertise, confidentiality, thoroughness and ability to create a comfortable working relationship. They also find her internet marketing expertise invaluable.

Cindy is dedicated to staying at the top of her profession through education and holds several highly regarded designations including CRS, GRI, and e-PRO. She has been a certified mentor/trainer for new agents and past Chairman of the Northbay Association of Realtors Education Committee. Most recently Cindy was appointed to the Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce Advocacy Council and Environmental Committee.

Cindy Brandon is a Licensed Real Estate Broker California DRE License # 01325597

Areas of Expertise

• Green Real Estate
• View Properties
• Vineyard Property
• County Property
• Real Estate Portfolio Disposition
• Foreclosures and REO
• 2nd Homes and Vacation Homes
• Healdsburg
• Santa Rosa
• Fountaingrove
• Sebastopol
• Windsor
• Sonoma
• Kenwood
• Glen Ellen
• Petaluma

Testimonials

CLIENT TESTIMONIALS

A note to all prospective realty clients:

Denis and I have had the pleasure of working with Cindy on two different occasions...once as a buyer and once as a seller. Both experiences more than met our expectations.

As our buying agent in 2003, Cindy was very responsive to our needs. She researched and kept us informed of homes in various locations of our interest. She was never pushy or aggressive, offering her opinion and advice only when necessary or when we asked for it. The selling agent at that time commented on her professionalism and was very pleased to work with her providing for us a mutually satisfactory transaction.

Cindy was also involved in the selling of our Petaluma home this year. Once again, her attention to detail was impeccable. She provided beautiful marketing and display materials and held an adequate number of open houses.

We were particularly appreciative of her efforts to insure that we resolved all of the compliance issues. Being remote sellers, it was most helpful to have someone who could and would personally respond to situations requiring on-site presence.

Once again, the buying agent on this occasion commented on the highly professional conduct of Cindy and especially her attention to detail.

Denis and I highly recommend the use of Cindy as either a buying or selling agent. She will go above and beyond the call of duty. As a prospective client, you may feel free to call Denis or Maxine Pepin for a reference.

We thank her for a job well done.

Denis and Maxine Pepin

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As you are aware, I had the opportunity to make a job transfer to beautiful Sonoma County from the Sacramento area in late 2005. In my new position as Executive Director of Healdsburg Developmental Center, I am CEO of one of the largest employers in the county, with commensurate time demands. Needless to say, there was very little time for me to focus on finding a home in a new area. I had no useful knowledge of the county and, as you quickly learned, no clearly defined vision of my housing wants or needs.

You began searching for properties and trying to educate me about the area market and, housing prices and values, etc. I have made a number of moves and purchased many homes, but I have never experienced the level of service you were able to provide. I did not keep track, but I am sure you previewed 100+ properties from the beginning of our search in early 2006 until we opened escrow in late fall of 2006. This includes making two other offers and all the associated work and due diligence necessary in order to properly inspect and evaluate the conditions relating to the properties.

I cannot begin to convey my appreciation for extraordinary amount of effort that you put forth to make sure I had all of the information I needed to make informed decisions regarding the purchase of my new magnificent home.

I am now a proud homeowner of a large executive home with acreage, views, etc., that fits my needs perfectly.

Jim Rogers

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Cindy Brandon did an excellent job helping us relocate from Kalamazoo, Michigan to Sonoma County. We had two homes to sell in Michigan and we had just heard on CNN that the worst market to have owned a home in the US in the past year was Kalamazoo, Michigan! Cindy worked extremely hard at helping us sell our homes in Michigan and she had some great ideas and input. We believe that Cindy was instrumental in getting both of our homes sold in what was termed the worst housing market in the US.

During our search for a new home here in California Cindy was the consummate professional. One of our more unusual requests was that someone in our household really wanted to be within close driving distance of fast food restaurants. In fact he said he, "Did not want his French fries to get cold on the drive home." When Cindy looked at prospective homes for us and was planning our tours, she actually bought French fries from the closest restaurant and drove to the prospective home to be certain that they would stay nice and warm! Now that is exceptional service! Thank you Cindy! Ken Fischang

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Recently we experienced selling our home in Colorado, buying a home in Santa Rosa and the huge task of moving. We did all of this in the span of three months. It was both exhilarating and exhausting.

We settled on Santa Rosa as our retirement destination after some time spent with Cindy Brandon last September. She was very knowledgeable, well organized and tireless in her efforts to show us an overview of Santa Rosa real estate. We were most impressed at how well she had heard us regarding location, amvience and price range. There was no wasted time in that visit.

The week before Christmas we returned again. We had stayed in constanct communication with Cindy from Colorado, allowing us to have first hand knowledge of the housing market here in Santa Rosa. With Cindy and her associate Sandra Ormerod we viewed only those homes that fit our specific criteria. Happily we found our home and were under contract during that visit.

When we returned to Colorado we found that our home had sold and we needed to vacate in thirty days. Our new home in Santa Rosa had some home inspection issues that needed to be addressed before we could close escrow. All of this was handled with calm professionalism by Cindy and Sandra.

Our experience with Cindy Brandon and Sandra Ormerod has been very satisfying. The process was concluded to everyone's satisfaction. Cindy's tireless work ethic, in-depth expertise, and outstanding contacts in the financial and contractor communities had much to do with that conclusion. We whole-heartedly recommend both these professionals.

Dave and Kathie McIntyre

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From the minute my husband and I met Cindy, we knew she could find us a home that was special. Cindy also listed our existing home. The sale of our own property was seamless, and completed in 2 weeks. All of this took place during the Christmas season, and Cindy was always available to us.

I couldn't more highly recommend Cindy Brandon for your real estate needs. -- Victoria and Robert Nygaard

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We've purchased and sold seven houses in our lives. This home sale has been by far the best experience we've had. You are our #1 Realtor. -- Jim Abrusci

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I cannot tell you how thrilled we are with our new home! From the first day you joined us as our real estate agent I felt a great sense of relief.

In this difficult market I thought it might take months to find the perfect home. I still cannot believe that you found us exactly what we were looking for in a little less than a week. Actually, I did not even believe that we would ever find such a perfect house, especially in a town I could only dream of living in.

I want to thank you for your knowledge and professionalism, mixed so perfectly with your warm and friendly personality. Your advice on what we should do and how to do it was fantastic. I know it could not have been easy dealing with people who knew absolutely nothing about buying a house.

We are now happily settled in our new home. I am so thankful that we chose you to be our agent. -- Sonia and Dan Barwick

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We love our house! We feel we live in paradise or a resort when we gaze out the back with our big trees and no close house ... so peaceful. Hopefully we won't need your professional help for many years, although we recommend you, whenever the subject comes up. -- Ann and Mike Rogalski

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