Heart & Soul Mortgages

Heart & Soul Mortgages Your go-to source for outside the box thinking, when it comes to mortgage financing and how you can really use it.

Because the truth is … just owning a house does not guarantee financial freedom or peace of mind😉💜😉

A client told me last week that she'd been avoiding her mortgage for two years because she was scared of what she'd find...
09/02/2026

A client told me last week that she'd been avoiding her mortgage for two years because she was scared of what she'd find.

When we finally sat down and looked, her situation had more room in it than she'd feared. Nothing magic. Just options she didn't know were on the table.

The look on her face is the reason I do this.

So much of the stress around money isn't the numbers themselves. It's the not-knowing. The avoiding. The story we tell ourselves about how bad it must be.

You don't have to keep carrying that. Sometimes the scary thing gets a lot smaller the second you actually look at it.

If you've been putting off looking at your own, consider this your gentle nudge. 😉

People ask how I run a mortgage practice with two little kids at home. Honestly? Not always gracefully. 😅Some days the p...
08/28/2026

People ask how I run a mortgage practice with two little kids at home. Honestly? Not always gracefully. 😅

Some days the plan falls apart by nine in the morning. Someone's sick, someone refuses to nap, and I'm replying to a client from the floor of a playroom or hiding in the bathroom ha.

I used to think I had to hide that to be taken seriously. Not anymore. If anything, it's made me better at this. When a client is stressed and stretched and juggling a hundred things, I don't have to imagine it. I'm in the same boat.

Building something while raising them isn't the tidy version you see online. But it's real, and it's mine.

I didn't grow up talking about mortgages at the dinner table.In my house, money was something you worried about, not som...
08/26/2026

I didn't grow up talking about mortgages at the dinner table.

In my house, money was something you worried about, not something you understood. I watched people I love make huge decisions about their homes with almost nobody in their corner actually explaining the options.

That's most of why I do this now. Not because I love spreadsheets, though I secretly kind of do. Because I know what it feels like to wish someone would just sit you down and walk you through it, honestly and without an agenda.

When I work with a family, that's the whole job. The version of the conversation I wish more people got to have.

If that's the kind of help you've been looking for, I'm right here. 💜

Most of my work happens in the in-between moments of my day.Lunch that somehow needs making again. One of my babies aski...
08/21/2026

Most of my work happens in the in-between moments of my day.

Lunch that somehow needs making again. One of my babies asking me something important right as I hit send on an email.

For a while I thought that made me less serious about this business. I've come to believe the opposite. You don't need a corner office and a silent calendar to help someone with their mortgage. You need to actually care whether they end up better off. And I do. 💜

Both my kids start school full-time this September, and now my extra time is going straight to the homeowners I work with.

So if you're in Ontario and you've had that quiet feeling that your mortgage isn't really working for you, I'd love to talk. It's my favourite kind of conversation. Plus a quick mortgage review can help you determine where you really stand and what your next best move can be.

You can message me anytime. 😉

Not every mortgage agent is built the same 👀Swipe to see what kind of agent I am. Fair warning, slide 4 surprises people...
08/13/2026

Not every mortgage agent is built the same 👀

Swipe to see what kind of agent I am. Fair warning, slide 4 surprises people every time.

Tell me your biggest mortgage question below and I’ll answer it 👇

Do you know the exact date your mortgage renews?Most people don’t. And that’s completely fine right up until the letter ...
08/07/2026

Do you know the exact date your mortgage renews?

Most people don’t. And that’s completely fine right up until the letter shows up.

Here’s what actually happens. The renewal offer lands about a month out. You’ve got a few weeks, life is busy, and signing it is so much easier than starting over. So you sign. And the whole thing gets decided by whoever mailed you a form.

The people who do well at renewal aren’t smarter or more organized. They just started looking four to six months early, so they had room to actually think. What’s changed since they last signed. What they’re planning over the next five years. Whether the lender they’re with still fits the life they have now.

And here’s the part almost nobody knows. The rate is usually not what costs people. It’s the penalty structure if they ever need to break early. It’s how much they’re allowed to pay down each year. It’s whether the mortgage travels with them if they sell.

Nobody reads that stuff until they need it, and by then it’s signed.

So I’m doing free mortgage reviews. A quick five minute call to get the basics, then fifteen minutes where I walk you through what I found. No cost, nothing to sign, no pressure either way. And if your mortgage is already in good shape, I’ll tell you that straight.

Whether you renew next spring or in 2031, it’s worth knowing where you stand.

📌 Save this for when your letter shows up.

💜 Send it to someone who bought in 2021 or 2022. They need it more than you do.

Call or text me at 226-270-7272, or comment 💜 and I’ll reach out.

Tiphereth Straker, Licensed Mortgage Agent Level 2 (M21004493)

Heart & Soul Mortgages · BRX Mortgage Inc. · FSRA 13463

07/21/2026

I want to be careful here so I will say it plainly. Every situation is different and these
are illustrative numbers, not a promise. But the pattern is real.

People pour energy into shaving pennies off a rate while thousands sit untouched in a badly structured second mortgage. If you want me to run your actual numbers honestly, comment 💥TEA💥.

This is education, and you should always confirm specifics with your own licensed advisor, which happens to be the conversation I am inviting you to. 😉

07/15/2026

This is the one that surprises people the most.

🏆You can win the rate negotiation and still lose 💸thousands, because the rate was never where the real money was hiding.

The structure was.

I am not here to make anyone feel silly for caring about rate, it is what we are all taught to watch.

I just want you to see the bigger number.

✨Comment TEA and I will show you where it is.

07/09/2026

🛠️The renovation got finished.

💸The financing you used to finish it did not get cleaned up.

That is the most common thing I see with homeowners who did work on their properties.

The private loan was the right call at the time, but interest-only and no exit plan means it just sits there draining you. If your home is worth more now, you may have options you do not know about.

✨Comment TEA and let's take a look.

Tiphereth Straker
Mortgage Agent Level 2
BRX Mortgage Inc. 13463

I just wanted to take a moment and thank all who are following me here on Facebook and supporting me and my mortgage bus...
07/09/2026

I just wanted to take a moment and thank all who are following me here on Facebook and supporting me and my mortgage business, I truly appreciate you 💜

XOXO - Tiphereth

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Church St
Kitchener, ON

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Monday 10:30am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 10:30am - 9:30pm
Wednesday 10:30am - 9:30pm
Thursday 10:30am - 9:30pm
Friday 11am - 6pm

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+12267005077

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