Advocate first.
Loan officer second.
Lender for life.

Tiaira grew up in Minneapolis — in the same city whose homeownership map still carries the outlines of covenants and redlining she now works to erase. After Concordia University-St. Paul, she found her way into mortgage lending and discovered the part of the job she loves most: telling a family "yes, this is possible" and then proving it.

Her specialty is the unglamorous, life-changing work of assistance navigation — knowing every down payment program in Minnesota, which ones stack, what order the applications go in, and how to pair them with the right first mortgage. It’s the difference between a buyer who almost made it and a family with keys.

As a participating lender in the Minnesota Housing network at Fairway’s Eden Prairie branch, Tiaira works with buyers across Minnesota and Wisconsin — first-timers, first-generation buyers, credit rebuilders, and everyone the industry historically overlooked. Her style is education-first, plain-language always, and available basically whenever you think of the question.