Mike D. Bono District III Lake Charles

Mike D. Bono was appointed to the Louisiana Real Estate Commission in 2006 by Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco.

Commissioner Bono is a life long resident of Lake Charles, Louisiana, is married and has two sons.  He attended McNeese State University and the University of Houston.  He received his real estate broker license in 1970, and since that time he established the following businesses:  Suburban Real Estate Inc., Suburban Land and Development, Toledo Land and Development, Moss Bluff Development, Pendel Corporation, Investors 76 & 77, Mike D. Bono & Co.’s, and Mike D. Bono Enterprises, Inc.

He has served in the following capacities:  Chairman of the Ethics Committee for the Greater Calcasieu Board of Realtors, real estate instructor, real estate consultant for numerous clients including banks and other businesses, appraiser for multiple third party lenders and the Veterans Administration for the United States Department of the Federal Housing Administration, and he has been qualified as a real estate expert witness in five courts in the following three states:  Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas.  Professional memberships include the National Association of Realtors, Louisiana Realtors Association, and the Southwest Louisiana Association of Realtors. 

Commissioner Bono purchased the first Century 21 franchise in Louisiana.  He formed Century 21 Mike D. Bono & Co.’s, a local real estate firm, in 1976, under “ONOB Corporation,” which is solely owned and operated by the Bono Family. 

At present, he is an active developer and real estate broker representing the “ONOB” corporation. 

 

 

 

 

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