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Shawn Selanders, Broker/Owner of Dominion Lending Centres-the FIRM franchise is a father of four, with a mortgage. Shawn fully understands the importance of your needs and will truly represent you from "your" side of the desk.
I'm not an employee of any of the banks or lenders; therefore, my main concern is to understand your financial goals and concerns.
This will enable me to act as a "Mortgage Planner", offering you unbiased financial advise. By doing everything to assist you, we will succeed and your financial future will flourish.
Dominion Lending Centres-the FIRM
- Financial
- Insurance
- Real estate
- Mortgages, legal, leasing and more!
"the FIRM" was born from the ideals of uniting an "Association of Professionals" that has (regardless of monetary gain) our client's best interest in mind. This professional format sets a new standard in client care that would be the foundation for all to strive for. In memory of my original partner in "the FIRM" Jeffrey Selanders who fought a courageous battle with cancer.
At Dominion Lending Centres-The FIRM, we understand that purchasing a home is one of life's most exciting endeavours, and is also a very comprehensive one.
Canada's largest banks, credit unions, trust companies, and financial intuitions have teamed up with Dominion Lending Centres & Dominion Lending Centres-the FIRM to offer you rates, products, and services that are only available through our mortgage professionals. For example, the Dominion Lending Centres mortgage product line has an array of home financing solutions that are only available to our mortgage professionals and their clients.
Through a proprietary low interest rate mortgage product line coupled with member training, technology, and a leading edge company, our mortgage professionals are the best equipped to serve you in fulfilling your home ownership dreams!
About Dominion Lending Centres
Dominion Lending Centres is a national mortgage brokerage and leasing company with more than 1,800 members offering free expert advice across Canada - taking the hassles out of the mortgage process and simplifying your life.
With access to more than 50 lending institutions, including big banks, credit unions and trust companies, our licensed team of mortgage professionals is familiar with a vast array of available mortgage products - ranging from first-time home buyer programs to financing for the self-employed to financing for those with credit blemishes.
And, best of all, Dominion Lending Centres' & Dominion Lending Centres-the FIRM mortgage professionals work for you - not the lenders - to ensure you receive the best rates and products available in today's marketplace.
Whether you're looking to purchase your very first home or upgrade to a new home, renew your existing mortgage, refinance your mortgage to free up some equity, purchase investment properties or vacation homes, or lease business-related equipment, Dominion Lending Centres has a variety of products available to meet your unique needs.
Our mortgage professionals are experts in their field and many are ranked among the best nationally.
Dominion Lending Centres also prides itself on being a Canadian mortgage brokerage firm to also offer a leasing division headed up by leasing professionals - encompassing everything from financing for large industrial equipment to used vehicles to computer systems and beyond.
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14 Key Points Every Customer Should Know
- We shop the best rates and products from 50+ different Banks, Credit Unions and Trust Companies including: TD Bank, Scotia Bank, ING, ATB, Servus, National Bank, FirstLine (CIBC), ResMor, First National, Merix Financial, Bridgewater Bank and many others.
- Our services are free as the bank pays us a finder’s fee. The Industry is changing and banks now have to compete for business, so they value our referrals. Keep in mind; they spend millions of dollars operating their many branches, plus internal staffing and layers of management, so they can afford to offer deep discounts for the business we bring to them.
- Isn’t it time the Banks compete for your mortgage business? You wouldn’t get just one opinion from one doctor if your physical condition were in question…why get just one opinion when your financial condition is going through the most significant transaction of its life?
- Your bank very rarely gives you the best rates and products. Most homeowners renew their mortgage every four or five years automatically, so they rarely receive the best rates and programs. Since Dominion Lending Centre sends lenders millions of dollars of new business each month, they always offer us the deepest discounts which we pass that on to you – whether you are purchasing, refinancing or renewing.
- Our application process is simple and quick. I’ll just take a little info and send it electronically to the lenders that I feel are the best fit for your situation; I should have some feedback later that day or the next!
- One of my best benefits is I’m available on your terms! Isn’t it frustrating when a bank takes several days to get back to you, and then you have to make your way through their endless voice mail boxes?
- I take one credit bureau only and forward it to all the lenders!
Many people inadvertently disqualify themselves from getting the best rate when they are shopping for a mortgage. When multiple banks pull a credit bureau, your Beacon score drops every time, sometimes eliminating the chance for the best mortgage or a mortgage at all!
- There’s a mortgage product available for almost everyone now. When a person’s situation isn’t ideal, there’s usually a story about why; maybe they changed jobs, maybe they went through a divorce or another life-altering event and their credit was affected. It is my job to tell your story to the lender that will qualify you.
- We appreciate your business. I sincerely appreciate your business and want to do a good job for you because I want all your family and friends business in the future! (Has any bank employee ever told you that?)
- We are certified Experts. Most bank employees are not certified and only know about their own bank’s products and do not know and cannot advise you to go to another lender where you can get qualified. You wouldn’t go to your G.P. if you needed a specialist. Deal with a mortgage expert specializing in mortgages from all lenders.
- We work for you, not the banks. I don’t get paid unless I fund your mortgage with a lender that is giving you the product you need and I have no interest in getting the lender more interest on your mortgage, as the higher the interest, the lower the amount I can qualify you for; clearly I work in your best interests, not the lender’s.
- Rate Protection. If the rates drop before you close you automatically get the lower rate and if rates go up you have the lower rate locked in. The last time you got pre-approved for a mortgage at a bank, did you get a commitment letter? Did they offer you a rate protection like the one we can secure for you?
- Commitment Letter Every-time. We provide a commitment letter every time so you can relax and be confident your mortgage financing is in place!
- A mortgage broker is no longer the “lender of last resort”! Actually we are becoming the first choice of the educated borrower.
