Lisa Peters
Mortgage Loan Officer at First Horizon
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214-763-7931
Lisa is a native Texan who grew up in Garland, moved to Oak Cliff in 1983, and immediately fell in love with the neighborhoods, diversity, and architecture. She sold real estate there and across the metroplex in the high-flying 1980s, managed a real estate office, was a residential property manager, and
became the relocation services director for Ellen Terry Realtors. Looking to make a change, a friend told her she would never get married if she stayed in residential sales, so she considered the mortgage business. She ended up going to work with Murdock Richard, CEO of Park Cities Mortgage.
“I am so grateful for everything I learned from Murdock,” Lisa says. “He taught me the residential mortgage business from the ground up. With immediate success in the mortgage business, I knew, ‘I can do this!’”
She says today her mentor is Kay Wilkinson, who has helped her grow her business throughout the Dallas area and in Austin.
“I went to work for Kay in 2000. She gives me incredible support when I don’t even know I need it!”
Lisa says she started her career sitting around other people’s kitchen tables learning about their residential real estate needs, and that’s still how she does business.
“I believe in that level of extra care. Not everyone fits a 30-year fixed mortgage. You have to learn about the client,” she says. Today repeat clients are the bulk of her business, and she enjoys helping young clients move up into larger homes and watching their families grow. Recently she contacted a client whom she had helped secure a loan in 2017 and was able to refinance their home at a lower rate and save $600 a month.
“That type of interaction is very typical and so gratifying,” Lisa says. “I have clients I’ve done five and six mortgages for over the years.”
Lisa stays close to her clients, and she and her husband (yes, she did get married on 9/9/99) are even godparents to two children of some clients who have become extended family. They all live in the same neighborhood, Oak Cliff’s Kessler East, and Saturday night dinner is regularly on their family calendar.
“When I first got into the business, my goal was to walk down any street in my neighborhood and see the people I had done loans for on each one,” Lisa says. “I’m happy to say, that’s come true and so much more!”
