AboutIntroducing the complete resource for every residential mortgage need: Jim Hensley and The Hensley Mortgage Team. With nearly three decades in the mortgage industry, Jim Hensley has extensive knowledge and experience, including 20 years spent in loan origination and sales management. Consequently, Jim Hensley has a unique understanding of the complexities of mortgage lending, and is able to rapidly identify and resolve potential issues before they become problems.Jim Hensley leads a group of mortgage industry veterans who comprise The Hensley Mortgage Team, including Sue Orochena, Loan Consultant, as well as loan processors and underwriters. Together, they can offer a diverse array of mortgage solutions and products, which are tailored for individual borrowers based on their unique requirements. Our various loan options include Fixed Rate Mortgages, Adjustable Rate Mortgages, Jumbo Financing, FHA Programs, and VA Programs, among others, and can be customized to fit any type of lending situation. As a Private Mortgage Banking specialist, Jim Hensley and The Hensley Mortgage Team have a unique commitment to personal service. From application to closing, we focus on providing an extremely high level of responsiveness, attentiveness, and individual care. We also offer tailor-made products that fit in to our clients' wealth building strategies. Further, The Hensley Mortgage Team provides flexible lending options, and is able to offer clients quick decision making, which is a significant benefit in today's often complex lending environment. Best of all, our team members are mortgage experts with one essential mission: to ensure a smooth, streamlined, and trouble-free transaction at all times.  Jim HensleyJim Hensley began his mortgage career in May of 1983 as a loan processor and graduated to an underwriting position by 1985. He held various management positions in operations and underwriting with local lenders in the Washington Metropolitan area until 1989, when he joined Chase Manhattan's personal financial services division. Chase was Jim's first foray into loan origination and he quickly became one of the top originators with Chase and #2 out of 300 plus originators in the US in 1990 and 1991. In 1992, Jim was asked to open an office of The Boston Company and was tasked to develop an origination team to service luxury home clients in the Washington Metropolitan marketplace. Jim left The Boston Company in 1997 to join First Savings Mortgage as the Director of the Private Banking Division again focusing on the luxury home market. With a short stint at several local banks, Jim continues to head up the Private Banking Division at First Savings Mortgage. He provides competitive jumbo loan offerings as well as financing at all levels to the home owners and home purchasers in the Washington Metropolitan marketplace. Sue OrochenaSue Orochena is a knowledgeable mortgage professional, with more than 25 years of mortgage industry experience. A Pennsylvania native, Sue has lived in the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. area for the past 10 years, after moving back from Germany. She not only understands the mortgage business, but is a veteran of relocations having moved several times, including twice overseas. While abroad, she worked in community relations and provided morale and welfare support to the U.S. Consulate families living overseas. She has also been an educational tutor for the Kingsbury School in Washington, D.C. The common elements in Sue's success in her careers are careful listening, understanding needs, being knowledgeable and resourceful, developing plans, and proactively communicating with others. Sue draws on all of these skills along with her extensive mortgage experience to ensure successful transactions time and time again. One of the many benefits of working with Jim Hensley and The Hensley Mortgage Team is Jim's affiliation with First Savings Mortgage Corporation. Jim Hensley's position as Director of the Private Banking Group gives clients access to Washington D.C.'s largest private mortgage lender. First Savings Mortgage Corporation has funded over $31 billion in closed loans to date and offers top-notch personal service with in house pricing, processing underwriting, and closing. Notably, First Savings Mortgage is Corporation is a lender, not a mortgage broker, and specializes only in residential lending. |