Brian Dewald is the President and Senior Loan Officer of Maverick Lending Solutions, a mortgage brokerage he owns in the Denver, Colorado area, ranked in the top 1% of lenders nationally every year since 2015.
Brian's path into mortgage started at a bicycle shop, where he worked as a service manager in his late teens and early twenties before a local mortgage broker recruited and mentored him into the industry in the early 2000s — he still uses the same HP 12C calculator that mentor taught him on, two decades later. Today Maverick Lending Solutions is a family business, with his wife Annetta and son Alex both working alongside him.
In this episode of Chasing Excellence, Brian joins host Tony Thompson to talk about why so many originators have left the business in the past two to three years, and why that's an opening rather than a warning sign for the ones who stay disciplined — plus an underserved market he sees real opportunity in: military personnel who don't realize what home-buying options are available to them.
🔑 What You'll Learn:
How a chance introduction at a bicycle shop turned into a 20+ year mortgage career
Why Brian still uses the same HP 12C calculator his first mentor taught him on
Why he believes "the fat are getting fatter" for the originators who stayed disciplined through the shakeout
Why military buyers are one of the most underserved segments in today's market
His case for hiring a coach — the same way Kobe Bryant, Tom Brady, and Michael Jordan did
Why he credits his wife Annetta as his "greatest cheerleader" throughout his career
Connect with Brian Dewald: https://mavericklendingsolutions.com/brian-dewald/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-dewald-b871ba4/
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