Licensed State: Michigan

  • Panayotis Arvanitis

    Panayotis Arvanitis

    About Panayotis

    Pano has worked in investment and finance for more than twenty-seven years. He takes real pride in finding the right loan for someone and keeping the process as simple as it can honestly be made.

    His focus is self-employed borrowers, veterans and first-time buyers — three groups whose files rarely look straightforward on paper and usually are once someone takes the time with them.

    He lives in New Buffalo, Michigan, with his wife and three children. He coaches youth sports and serves on the New Buffalo Township Planning Commission.

  • James Canfield

    About James

    James served as a Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps, where he was Fiscal Chief, Funeral Detail Platoon Leader, and NCOIC for Supply and Logistics. He has been originating since 2015.

    He is licensed nationwide. Most of his volume is DSCR and hard money for real estate investors, along with conventional, VA and FHA lending in the states where he holds a license.

    For two years he worked as a solution consultant, which meant taking on the loans other people could not structure and finding a way to close them. That is still how he prefers to work. He does not want anyone reading this page to assume he handles only a narrow set of scenarios, because the difficult files are the ones he took the job for.

  • Keri Bernardi

    Keri Bernardi

    About Keri

    Keri has been writing mortgages full time since 2011. Before that she was a consumer loan officer handling auto loans, home equity lines and personal loans, which turns out to be useful background for a borrower whose credit needs work before a mortgage is realistic.

    She works Colorado Springs, Denver and Pueblo in Colorado, and Pinellas County, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Sarasota and Naples in Florida. Most of her volume is VA and FHA, along with DSCR loans for investors and bank statement loans for the self-employed.

    The files she is best on are the ones that arrive damaged. Credit repair, credit counseling, first-time buyers who have been told no, and self-employed borrowers whose tax returns understate what they actually earn. This year she has taken on four loans another lender had already declined and closed them.

    The question she gets most is what rate she can get someone. Her answer is that she will not throw out a number that looks good and does not reflect the actual file. What you are offered depends on your credit profile, the loan type, the property, and whether you choose to pay points, and she would rather take a few details first and then show you the real options and what each one means over the life of the loan.

    Keri was born in Ohio, spent thirty years in Colorado and now splits her time between Colorado and Florida. She has a husband, two daughters and four pets, she runs, she travels, and she volunteers at the humane society walking dogs. She has served on the board of the Colorado Springs Fire Foundation for the past five years.

    Her own account of what makes her different is that she leads with her heart. Plenty of loan officers say that. She would rather demonstrate it through transparency, communication and honesty.