Austin From Austin Mortgage Austin Dell'Abate NMLS #184155

11/01/2026

It is live. 🐠📚 Trusty the Fish Learns About Credit is now on Amazon.

Volume 1 of the Trusty™ series, and the set is complete. Book 2 taught your kids how a first home gets bought. Book 1 starts where every home begins, with credit.

This book exists to start instilling the ideas of credit and how to purchase a home at an early age, so our children grow up ready to claim independence and wealth.

49 pages of story, coloring, and activities, ages 6 to 12. Credit is borrowing, and borrowing is a promise. A credit score is a trust score. Promises kept make it grow, and the card trap shows what a $100 promise really costs when it is paid back slow.

The cast is family. Trusty was my fish Fico, a fish I adored. Lucy and Chica, pets I loved and lost, live on in these pages, with a bobcat along for the fun.

Get Volume 1: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HPYKT945
Book 2: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HPSLC13N

Austin Dell'Abate · GAVIN Lending™ · NMLS #184155

10/30/2026

THE REAL LISTING. Every book I have published, in one place.

NEW TODAY: Trusty the Fish Buys a Home™, a coloring storybook teaching kids saving, credit, and buying a first home. Ages 6 to 12.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HPSLC13N

Numbers Never Lie™, in three editions.
Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HMG1XFJR
Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HMXB3FH7
Deluxe: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HMXFBFWC

65 Ways to Kill Your Deal, the guide realtors hand their buyers.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HPFPH6V3

Halloween Coloring Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HNWKHJ22

Coming soon: Trusty the Fish Learns About Credit.

10/30/2026

A kind offer came in today. A film studio offered to turn Trusty the Fish into a movie. I am grateful, and I lovingly said no.

This book was created to encourage children to engage in hands on activities and coloring, to foster their imagination and creative development. A screen imagines for the child. A crayon invites the child to imagine.

Creativity, imagination, and hands on activities are how a young mind adopts abilities, and those abilities are how children learn to manifest their dreams. While their hands are busy coloring, they are also learning saving, credit, and how a first home is earned.

Skills on the page. Abilities for life. Dreams they can manifest.

Trusty the Fish Buys a Home™ is live on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HPSLC13N

10/30/2026

10/30/2026

Trusty the Fish Buys a Home is now live on Amazon. 🐠🏠

This book exists to start instilling the ideas of credit and how to purchase a home at an early age, so our children grow up ready to claim independence and wealth.

58 pages, 41 designs, 10 activities, ages 6 to 12.

Parents, what it teaches. Saving: coin by coin until he reaches his goal. Credit: promises kept, and that trust is what allows Trusty to obtain his home.

Trusty was my fish Fico. Lucy and Chica, pets I loved and lost, live on in these pages, with a bobcat along for the fun.

I believe financial literacy should start young and be required curriculum in our public schools.

Get it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HPSLC13N

10/30/2026

Trusty the Fish Buys a Home is now live on Amazon. 🐠🏠

This book exists to start instilling the ideas of credit and how to purchase a home at an early age, so our children grow up ready to claim independence and wealth.

58 pages, 41 designs, 10 activities, ages 6 to 12.

Parents, what it teaches. Saving: coin by coin until he reaches his goal. Credit: promises kept, and that trust is what allows Trusty to obtain his home.

Trusty was my fish Fico. Lucy and Chica, pets I loved and lost, live on in these pages, with a bobcat along for the fun.

I believe financial literacy should start young and be required curriculum in our public schools.

Get it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HPSLC13N

10/30/2026

Realtors and buyers, I want your rescue missions.

The more challenging the file, the more I welcome it. Send me your hard nos and let a veteran run the numbers. I coach every file to the finish line and I do not quit until the job is done.

Files with hair on them are welcome here. Piecing the puzzle together so a family can own a home instead of renting is the joy of this business.

My website has a Hard No Desk, a review team dedicated to buyers who were turned down to purchase a home. A seasoned veteran second look costs nothing.

Start at www.gavinlending.vip or call or text me at 512-825-7007.

Austin Dell'Abate, Producing Branch Manager
GAVIN Lending, powered by Straight Deal Mortgage, NMLS #184155
All loans subject to lender approval. Equal Housing Lender.

10/30/2026

It happened last night.

Numbers Never Lie got its first five star review on Amazon.
And it came from a reader outside the mortgage industry.

"This was such a wonderful and inspiring read! Engaging, meaningful, and full of moments that really made me stop and think..."
Jenna R., First-Time Homebuyer

Then she called me. A stranger who read the book cold picked up the phone to tell the author she was absolutely impressed.

I wrote this book for everybody at the closing table.
First time homebuyers. Current homeowners. Realtors. Loan originators.
A stranger reading it cold and giving it five stars tells me it landed.

If you have read it, your review is the fuel that carries this book to the next reader.
If you have not, the link is below. Read it, then tell me what you think.

Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HMXB3FH7
Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HMG1XFJR
Deluxe color edition: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HMXFBFWC

Austin Dell'Abate, NMLS #184155
GAVIN Lending, powered by Straight Deal Mortgage

10/27/2026

My new book is live on Amazon, and I wrote it for our industry.

65 Ways to Kill Your Deal covers the small, honest mistakes that quietly end real closings. The new car before funding. The furniture card. Money moved with no paper trail. Most buyers who make them were simply never told.

Realtors, this is the handout that outdoes the old Ten Commandments sheet. One page listed ten warnings. This book covers all 65, with why each one puts a closing at risk and the first step to fix it, in a book buyers will actually read and keep.

I also believe credit should be learned early. My kids coloring story, Trusty the Fish Learns About Credit, is based on my pet fish, Fico. Legal asked me to change his name, so Fico became Trusty. It is in review with Amazon now.

Get 65 Ways here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HPFPH6V3

Austin Dell'Abate
GAVIN Lending™, powered by Straight Deal Mortgage
NMLS #184155

10/25/2026

Thinking about a refinance? Read this first.

Most homeowners I talk to are sitting on a loan that made sense when they signed it and makes no sense today. Different rate environment, different income, different goals.

Here is what I do for free: I run your current loan against today's options, line by line, and show you the real numbers. If a refinance saves you money, I will show you exactly how much. If it does not, I will tell you that too, and you keep my number for when it does.

Past clients: you already know my promise. Repeat clients get discounts and savings, same as always. I keep my word.

Book a 15 minute call and let us look at your numbers together.
https://calendar.app.google/QW7wnvWN9hM55RqD8

Austin Dell'Abate, GAVIN Lending
512-825-7007, NMLS #184155