For more information about Jocelyn Lasher, Atlantic Coast Mortgage, visit www.atlanticcoastmortgage.com, call 703-371-2405, or email jlasher@acmllc.com. Public business address: 4097 Monument Corner Drive, Suite 600, Fairfax, VA 22030. Service area: Northern Virginia
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Jocelyn Lasher brings a teacher’s patience to Northern Virginia home financing
For Jocelyn Lasher, helping someone buy a first home starts with making the mortgage understandable. The Fairfax-based Atlantic Coast Mortgage loan officer emphasizes walking buyers through the process, explaining the steps behind a decision that can otherwise feel opaque.
For Jocelyn Lasher, helping someone buy a first home starts with making the mortgage understandable. The Fairfax-based Atlantic Coast Mortgage loan officer emphasizes walking buyers through the process, explaining the steps behind a decision that can otherwise feel opaque.
Lasher, a vice president and senior loan officer, brings 25 years of mortgage-industry experience, according to her professional biography. First-time buyers and veterans are particular interests. Her approach centers on matching the conversation to the borrower’s circumstances rather than treating every household as the same application.
That emphasis appears in the customer feedback her company shares. One first-time buyer, Gerardo R., described regular updates, answers to questions and help understanding the process. It is a useful picture of the work between an initial conversation and closing: staying available while a customer makes an unfamiliar purchase.
Away from lending, Lasher supports school meal and foster-care or adoption programs in Loudoun County. Her weekends can also take her to a racetrack; car racing is a longtime personal interest she shares in her biography.
Her work sits within a company with its own Northern Virginia roots. Atlantic Coast Mortgage began in 2011 and is headquartered in Fairfax. The lender combines local loan officers with online tools that let customers begin an application and follow their financing remotely.
The company also publishes resources for the less glamorous but essential parts of moving: a homebuying checklist, explanations of the mortgage process and a moving-day checklist. Those materials complement the individual conversations borrowers have with a loan officer. They give prospective customers somewhere to begin before they have a purchase contract in hand.
For Northern Virginia households considering that next step, Lasher offers a local contact whose professional focus is explaining the process and remaining involved throughout it. She can be reached through Atlantic Coast Mortgage’s Fairfax office or her individual profile.
