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About Bonnie Mehner
Hundreds
of people moving in or out of
Anchorage over the last 24 years
hear one suggestion when they
decide to buy or sell a house:
"Call Bonnie Mehner at Jack White
Company." Why?
"I have a lot of empathy with my
clients," Bonnie states. "A home
is where a family lives, where
its heart is, where people want
to raise children, have a
wonderful relationship, entertain
friends and make memories. I
respond to that." Empathy
comes easily to Bonnie. She grew
up bouncing around the country
with her military family. Upon
graduating from Alaska Methodist
University in Anchorage in the
1960s, she married Bill Mehner,
who joined the Army - any took
her traveling again. "Moving
and buying or selling a home puts
us in a very emotional state,"
Bonnie says. "I understand that,
not just intellectually, but
heart-wise as well." Always
fascinated with real estate, she
entered the industry in the mid-
1970s after moving back to
Anchorage. She gravitated to Jack
White Company in 1978 because of
its excellent
reputation. "The
average agent has been selling
for 13 years," Bonnie says.
"They're good people - people you
can trust. That's a wonderful
situation in which to
work." Within
months, Bonnie became one of Jack
White's top agents. To satisfy
her clients year after year, she
consistently relies on a few
down-to-earth
strategies. Bonnie
listens to her customers. "People
can give me a brief sketch of
what they want. Instead of
sending them out to look at
dozens of houses on the market, I
can tell them there are two or
three houses that will be perfect
for them," she says. Once
she knows what her client wants,
Bonnie spends hours covering all
the facets of a residential real
estate transaction. She discusses
financing and resale value,
details about improving the
property, and terms for closing
the contract. "I'm
very frank with my clients,"
Bonnie says. "I don't evade
issues or questions that might be
of concern to them. It's
important to me that my clients
understand I want to make them
happy and not waste their
time." During
her 23 years of real estate
experience, Bonnie has earned the
reputation of being one of the
best real estate agents in
Anchorage. She meets complete
strangers who've already heard
about her. Most clients arriving
at her office today come from
these word-of-mouth
recommendations. One
satisfied seller, Sandy Frye, a
former relocation coordinator for
ARCO Alaska Inc., says, "When
faced with the challenge of
marketing my own Anchorage home,
the choice of whose professional
services to use was an easy one.
During the marketing and home
sales process, Bonnie was
available to provide information
necessary to streamline the
process, as well as to address
client concerns." Bonnie's
schedule has become even more
dynamic as her husband, Bill, an
insurance agent and manager for
over 20 years, joined her in the
real estate business at Jack
White Company in 1992. Their
eldest daughter, Beth, a graduate
of Alaska Pacific University,
joined the team in 1995 as a
licensed sales associate and the
team expanded again in 1998 with
the addition of Teresa Bell, a
licensed associate. After hours,
you'll find the couple enjoying
the best Anchorage has to offer -
from biking the coastal trail in
the summer to skiing at Alyeska
in the winter. Like
other Jack White Company members,
Bonnie finds time to get involved
in community activities.
Currently she's serving as
president of the Alaska Community
Foundation, and in recent years
served as president of
Soroptomist International of Cook
Inlet and chairing the Anchorage
Arts Advisory
Commission. You
might say Bonnie is wild about
this town. "Anchorage is a
wonderful, family-oriented
place," she says. "That's why we
raised our children here. The
facilities we have, from the
Performing Arts Center to the
Sullivan Sports Arena, are
wonderful reasons for people to
live here." Such
an attitude makes it easy for
Bonnie to sell Anchorage to
relocating families - and helps
her find new homes for families
who've lived here for years.
Again and again, long-time
Anchorage residents, along with
new arrivals to town, pick up the
phone and call her when they want
to look into residential real
estate. "I
work hard to have a good
reputation," Bonnie says. "People
hear that I will do a good job
finding them a home or selling
their home. They know they can
have confidence in what I tell
them." "It's
the buyer who really picks out
the house," she adds. "I help
them find it - and hopefully make
the job much easier for them. I
get a lot of satisfaction from
finding homes that make people
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Bonnie
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