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The Hills Living Magazine - Meet the Menser-Polley Family

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Ben Polley and Stephani (Menser) Polley met at the beginning of 2012. They were introduced through a mutual friend that they both went to meet with at the Folsom Hotel on Sutter Street. They spent several hours talking and Stephani mentioned that she was a realtor and was hosting an open house on Breese Circle that weekend. Ben, living in Serrano, decided to stop by the open house and ask Stephani on a date. In 2015, they got married in Cancun, surrounded by 70 of their closest friends (most from EDH) and family.

Ben, originally from Sebastopol, CA, moved to the Sacramento area in 1994 to attend college at Sacramento State. After college, he moved up the hill and settled down in El Dorado Hills. Ben owns Polley Insurance and Risk Management, formerly known as Clinton Polley Insurance Brokers. After 20 years of building his business, Ben recognized a greater need to manage risk for his cli- ents beyond the placement of insurance policies. At the beginning of 2020, he announced the launch of his new company branding.

Stephani grew up in El Dorado Hills and graduated from Oak Ridge, the same high school her teenagers now attend. Her parents, Steve and Donna Menser still reside here as well. Stephani is a realtor with the Menser Real Estate Group at Coldwell Banker. She formed this team in 2013 alongside her mother, Donna, and longtime friend (also an EDH native) Melissa Cvitanovic.

The Polley’s are a blended family with Aden (17) and Lauren (14) from Ben’s previous marriage. In August 2016, Steve was born. “We have a very busy household!” says Stephani. “The big kids live with us a week on/a week off. We have our au pair Barbie, from Coahuila, Mexico, that lives with us to help with Steve. We also have two dogs-Juicy, a 12-year-old Chihuahua, and Caymus, a 6-year-old Yorkie.”

Aden is a junior at Oak Ridge and works at Safeway. He is a big Sacramento Kings fan and when he is not working or teaching his little brother how to play basketball, he is working on his ‘67 Chevelle. Lauren, a freshman at Oak Ridge loves to play soccer and, as a typical teenager, socialize with friends. Steve is attending his second year at Step by Step, Paso a Paso, a Spanish Immersion preschool. Steve is the biggest personality in the Polley household. His hobbies are golfing, swimming and dressing up in costumes. Some days he can be found dressed up as a bagpipe player in their backyard, entertaining his parents while they pretend they are in Spanish Bay in Pebble Beach. Barbie (20) is the Polleys’ third consecutive au pair. She’s lived with them for a year and a half and will be returning home shortly to finish college.

For fun, the Polley family loves spending time on their boat or golfing at Serrano. They also frequently attend concerts and Sacramento Kings basketball games. Prior to COVID, they would often visit KP Karaoke as a family and take trips to the Delta, Lake Tahoe and Mexico.

“COVID has really been an eye-opener for us,” Stephani says. “We’ve always loved where we lived, but being forced to shelter in place, we have become much more grateful for our neighbors and our beautiful community. We are very social people and our backyard saved our sanity. We live on the 8th tee box and were able to (from a distance) visit with members from the Club as they drove by our house.”

Their favorite part of living in El Dorado Hills is the sense of community that comes with it. Although it has grown tremendously since Stephani grew up here, it still has the small-town feel that they love.

The Menser Real Estate Group Achieves Prestigious Coldwell Banker Global Luxury® Property Specialist Designation

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA(OCTOBER 30, 2019) – Coldwell Banker is pleased to announce that the Menser Real Estate Group, a real estate team affiliated with the company’s El Dorado Hills office, has earned the Coldwell Banker Global Luxury ® Property Specialist designation.

The Coldwell Banker Global Luxury program is redefining the world of luxury real estate marketing, offering a comprehensive and competitive advantage to affluent clients worldwide. The prestige of the Coldwell Banker® name, combined with state-of-the-art technology and bespoke marketing strategies resulted in agents affiliated with the brand completing more than 30,000 $1 million-dollar-plus transactions in 2018, more than any other real estate brand. Access to one of real estate's most robust global networks encompassing 92,000 independent real estate agents in approximately 3,100 offices in 44 countries and territories culminates in extraordinary representation that crosses oceans, continents and language barriers. 

“In completing this program, The Menser Real Estate Group joins an elite group whose members rank among the top luxury real estate agents in the world. Luxury Property Specialists have a track record of representing some of the most significant properties of all time, and this training program is one of the most sought-after courses of its kind in the industry,” said Mike James, president of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage. “The group embodies our credo – ‘Your luxury is our legacy.’”

The Luxury Property Specialist training program is created and delivered by the network’s top agents who share best practices for working and winning in a luxury market, and in partnership with The Institute for Luxury Home Marketing (ILHM). Producing agents may earn two esteemed designations (Coldwell Banker’s Luxury Property Specialist & ILHM’s Certified Luxury Home Marketing Specialist), further distinguishing them from their competition, while simultaneously arming them with an exclusive suite of marketing tools.

About Coldwell Banker Global Luxury 

The Coldwell Banker luxury program was re-launched in early 2017 under the name Coldwell Banker Global Luxury, with major enhancements to the luxury program with a keen focus on telling Coldwell Banker’s luxury program story globally. Coldwell Banker’s luxury program legacy traces its roots to Coldwell Banker Previews International® and the Previews® program, a world leader in luxury real estate since 1933. Coldwell Banker Global Luxury Property Specialists are an exclusive group within the Coldwell Banker organization, making up under 10 percent of independent agents affiliated with the brand worldwide. Coldwell Banker affiliated agents and teams conducted approximately 30,478 transaction sides of homes priced at $1 million-plus or more in 2018, with an average sales price of $1.9 million. On average, the Coldwell Banker brand handles approximately $161.8 million in million-plus homes each day. Coldwell Banker, the Coldwell Banker logo, Coldwell Banker Global Luxury, and the Coldwell Banker Global Luxury logo are registered mark owned by Coldwell Banker Real Estate, LLC. Each office is independently owned and operated. Visit ColdwellBankerLuxury.com.

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