My name is Pam Pariso, and I'm a full-time REALTOR® who helps people buy, sell or rent their properties in the:

* Elmira
* Corning, and
* Watkins Glen region of upstate New York.

My career background before real estate was in public relations and marketing communications.

Education:
- Bachelor's in English, SUNY at Fredonia
- Master's in Education, Elmira College

My office at Keller Williams Realty is located across the road from Best Buy near Arnot Mall, at 971 County Road 64, next to Community Bank.

My passion is helping people prepare their homes for sale, helping with staging strategies, and then marketing your property to get it the most interest and traffic possible -- online and in person -- to find you the right buyer as quickly as possible.

I'm a lifelong area resident. Raised on a Holstein dairy farm in a rural valley east of Elmira, up Jerusalem Hill, just a few miles from the historic Langdon summer home where Samuel Clemen's -- Mark Twain's -- study originally was, I grew up embraced by the beauty of the Southern Tier of New York as the oldest of four.

My childhood included camping, roller skating, ice skating and horseback riding (English and Western). Mom, Barb Pipher, was a teacher with the Elmira City School District with a knack for interior design, who owned a furniture and gift shop called The Willow Shoppe. Dad, Lemuel Pipher, always a hard-working entrepreneur, founded a successful concrete company called Custom Mix Concrete that still thrives today under the ownership of my brother, John Pipher.

I understand construction from dad's business and its connections, and staging and interior design from mom's influences. I also know a lot about local farming and its challenges, as my brother Tom Pipher was a Cornell grad in Agricultural Business and was the regional director of the USDA for decades. My sister Becky is also in real estate.

This background gives me an understanding of the local housing market. I've lived in Lowman, Waverly, Horseheads, Big Flats, Corning, and now Elmira.