Ivy Eilerman: Angel Oak’s Local Point Person
Ivy Eilerman: Angel Oak’s Local Point Person
In the male-dominated mortgage industry, where—according to statistics—women occupy only 32 percent of top positions, Ivy Eilerman said she knows how fortunate she is. Eilerman, who serves as part of the elite president’s club of the Atlanta-based Angel Oak Home Loans, runs the firm’s Pooler office, where she is the branch manager.
“Ivy is a top producer who is well known with a great reputation,” said LeighAnn Wheeler, Marketing Director for Angel Oak Home Loans. “She works with clients with ease and poise and is a great loan officer.”
Nurturer by Nature
Eilerman has built a great reputation inside and outside of the company, which she attributes to having an instinctual and deep-rooted care that comes from being next to the oldest and eldest daughter of six siblings, in which she was sister and caretaker and developed her “mothering skills,” she said. That nurture and sense of responsibility followed her into the workplace.
“My care and concern grew into 100-percent, word-of-mouth support for my business,” Eilerman said. “It’s very humbling so many trust me.”
Eilerman said she is trusted because she is honest with her customers and doesn’t tell them what they want to hear, but she tells them what they need to hear in order get a home loan approved.
“My approach is to be cautious because we don’t want to break people’s hearts. We like to seek and destroy any threats in the beginning.” The result is that almost all her customers’ loans are approved because she puts in the work in the beginning.
Winning Awards is a Team Effort
While Eilerman can point to 18 awards she has that she houses between her office and her Guyton home, she insists none of them are because of her extraordinary work. She credits her team for every one of her awards.
“I love what I do, but I have an amazing team that makes me look good. They sing my praises and I sing theirs.”
Eilerman said her positive outlook comes from her faith. Every morning, she and her husband, Ricky, a real estate agent, and their three children, Cody, 20; Caden, 10; and Grace, 9, start their day off with reading Bible verses. That start, she said, gives her fuel for the day.
Focus on Family and Friends
Eilerman spends her free time with her large family who lives close by. It’s not uncommon for 17 family members to go to a movie or spend time together on a beach.
But when it’s just Eilerman and her husband, the two often spend time with friends on the couple’s porch where Eilerman, an accomplished singer, can belt out songs from Martina McBride to Reba McIntire, Aretha Franklin and Whitney Houston with ease. If she wasn’t in the mortgage business, Eilerman said she would be a professional singer.
Coming out of one the most profitable years in her career, (Eilerman personally closed $32 million in loans for 2020), Eilerman said she has no plans to slow down; in fact, she plans to open a second branch in Effingham County at the end of the year. Eilerman said she is the first to admit that she often spreads herself too thin. “I never turn off, I just change locations.”
Ivy Eilerman
Office: 912.348.9481
Cell: 912.656.3524
