Title: Community Development Manager

Company: Bell Mortgage

Location: Bloomington, Minn.

With a passion for helping others, Kathy Harrison has spent the last 30-plus years building a strong reputation as a top producing mortgage loan officer, executive manager and industry educator by serving the lending needs of real estate professionals, builders, and individual home buyers. There, the planning and integration of her clients’ financial goals is critical, as she offers the expertise to create a mortgage strategy designed to maximize wealth, minimize taxes and meet clients housing needs in today’s changing markets. For the first-time buyer to the move-up or executive buyer, Ms. Harrison possesses a thorough knowledge of the financial industry, allowing her to create a mortgage and financial strategy that best serves her clients’ short- and long-term objectives.

Ms. Harrison has a fine-tuned communication system prior to the application, during the loan process and after closing, their clients have consistently referred our team to others in need of our expertise. Her commitment to her faith, family, and friends helps keep life in balance. Other interests include travel, skiing, children’s sports, theater, and walks by the river with her dog, Raven. She started her background in accounting and finance back in high school; Ms. Harrison went on with working in banking and then with mortgages.

Having a more diverse plan with better procedures in place; executing a team and working on better time management.  Also, Ms. Harrison would like to do more reorganizing and work smarter not harder. They have told she has helped change their lives and that she keep their interest upfront. Ms. Harrison’s strengths are technical abilities, detail oriented and hands-on approach. Her greatest accomplishment is being a single mom and a role model as well as helping young families and doing outreach in the community.