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Travis NicolaysenNMLS 1782820

For real estate agents

Your name is on the sign.
I will not be the reason it comes down late.

You already know what a bad lender costs you: a closing date that slips, a buyer who stops answering, and a client who remembers the delay long after they forget the house. This is the opposite arrangement.

What you can hold me to

Calls returned
Same day
Pre-approval turnaround
24 hours
Loan programs
Conv · FHA · VA · USDA
Licensed in
NC & SC

Licensed in North Carolina and South Carolina, which matters constantly when a Charlotte buyer ends up in Fort Mill.

The partnership

Six things you get, specifically.

Not a value proposition. A list of behaviors you can verify on the first file we do together.

  • A 24-hour pre-approval, fully documented

    Income and assets verified, file through automated underwriting. Your buyer arrives at the table with an offer a listing agent can trust, not a form letter.

  • My mobile number, not a call center

    Weekends and evenings included while a deal is live. If you need a letter re-issued at a new price during a showing, you get it during the showing.

  • A straight answer before you write

    I will tell you where your buyer’s real ceiling is and what the property has to support for their program — before the offer goes out, not after the appraisal.

  • Co-branded marketing I actually produce

    Listing flyers, open-house financing sheets, payment breakdowns for your listings and social graphics — designed around your brand. I do the work.

  • A featured spot on this site

    Your photo, your production record, your active listings and your story, in front of every buyer who lands here. Not a logo in a footer — an actual feature page.

  • Closing dates that hold

    Every underwriting condition tracked personally. Nothing sits in a queue, and you are never the one apologizing to a client for a delay you did not cause.

Co-marketing

I do the work,
your brand stays first.

Everything below is produced by me, sized for your channels, and led by your logo — not a template with your headshot dropped into a corner. Compliance review included, so nothing you post creates a problem later.

  1. 01

    Listing flyers

    Financing scenarios for your listing — payment at three price points, program options, cash to close — designed to your brand and ready to print.

  2. 02

    Open house kit

    A branded payment sheet for the specific house, plus a QR code that pre-approves a walk-in visitor from their phone.

  3. 03

    Buyer seminars

    We co-host a first-time buyer session — you bring the audience, I bring the numbers and the deck. Leads belong to you.

  4. 04

    Feature page & listing spotlight

    A permanent page on this site with your production record, your photo and your live inventory, refreshed as it turns over.

Your client’s side of it

The five stages, and who owns each one.

Half of what makes a transaction feel chaotic to a buyer is not knowing whose turn it is. Your buyers get this timeline in writing on day one, so the questions come to the right person — and most of them come to me instead of you.

  1. 01

    Connect

    One conversation

    A call, not an application. What you earn, what you owe, what you have saved, and what you are trying to buy. You leave knowing whether now is the right time and what would move your number.

  2. 02

    Build your mortgage plan

    1–2 days

    Documents in one batch, credit pulled, programs compared side by side. You get the payment, the cash to close and the trade-offs for each option in writing — not one quote with no context.

  3. 03

    Get pre-approved

    24 hours

    Income and assets verified, file through automated underwriting. A real letter a listing agent can lean on, re-issued at any offer price you need — including on a Saturday.

  4. 04

    Find your home

    As long as it takes

    Your agent runs this part. I stay reachable for the questions that come up mid-showing: what does this HOA do to my ratio, will this property pass an FHA appraisal, can we close by the 30th.

  5. 05

    Underwriting & approval

    21–30 days

    Appraisal, title and underwriting all start at once rather than in sequence. Every condition gets tracked by name until it clears, and you hear about a problem the day it appears.

  6. 06

    Closing

    About an hour

    Your Closing Disclosure arrives at least three business days early and we read it against your original estimate. Then photo ID, wire confirmation, signatures — and the deed records.

New construction

Buyers building from dirt,
and the builders who sell to them.

Our single-close construction loan closes once — land, build and permanent loan — before ground breaks, so nobody re-qualifies your buyer eight months later with a different credit report and a different market. That is the risk that quietly kills new-construction contracts, and it is the one we remove.

If you have a builder client, we approve builders too. Send us their packet and they come out of it with approved scopes and limits in writing.

What it changes for your file

  • One closing, one underwrite

    Your buyer is fully underwritten before construction starts. No second application at completion, no second set of closing costs.

  • Interest-only during the build

    They pay interest only on what has been drawn, which matters when they are also paying rent or a current mortgage.

  • Draws and inspections are ours to manage

    A dedicated team sets the schedule, orders inspections and keeps title current at each draw. Those calls come to us, not to you.

  • Site-built, modular or manufactured

    Factory-built is not an exception here. Modular and eligible manufactured homes on permanent foundations both qualify.

Clay Vassey, real estate agent with Real Local/Real Broker in Seneca, South Carolina

Agent spotlight

Sixty-one closings in five years — at an average price of $610,300.

Clay VasseyReal Local/Real Broker, LLC, Seneca, SC. 61 closed sales and $37.2M in volume over the last five years — with the live inventory and full production record on the feature page.

Let’s talk

Send one buyer.
Judge me on that file.

I am not asking you to move your whole pipeline on a promise. Give me one pre-approval and watch how it is handled — the turn time, the communication, the closing date. If it is not obviously better, you have lost nothing.

Response time
Same business day
Pre-approval turn
Within 24 hours
Coverage
North Carolina & South Carolina
Programs
Conv · FHA · VA · USDA
Also
Construction, jumbo, renovation

No credit pull, no obligation.

You’ll hear back from Travis today — usually within a few hours.

This is not an offer to enter into an agreement or a commitment to lend. Not all applicants will qualify. Information and rates are subject to change without notice. All loans are subject to credit review and approval.

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