KATHY COLKITT
Kathy fuels her professional and personal life by repeatedly asking, and then answering, the same question each and every day: “Why are we here if we’re not helping people?”
This simple interrogative spurred Kathy to launch her career as a broker, and later as a lender, twenty-six years ago. “I got started back in the day when you had a three-page application, you weren’t allowed to touch the computer, and you called from a phone book. Now, I’ve basically been my own person as far as a loan officer, and for seventeen years I’ve worked from home.” The ability to work remotely helps Kathy support the clients she serves all over the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Kathy Colkitt’s team prides themselves on both their geographic and financial flexibility, and they
are comfortable working with every loan imaginable. Their efforts have culminated in an annual volume that ranges between $28 and $30 million spread across 85-100 units a year. For Kathy, the most important number in her book of business is her rate of referral: “We are 100% referral based –I’ve been that way since my third year in the industry.”
Kathy attributes her tremendous success to a practice and disposition that she has maintained during her entire career. “We do a lot of things here that help us succeed, and giving gratitude for service to clients and partners is more important than everything else because when we give, we
receive back. I write thank you notes for referrals, congratulation notes when people get funded, and even notes to people who are joining the team. I’m a big proponent of giving gratitude, because without them, I wouldn’t be in business.” At the center of this eternal gratitude sit her two senior team members, Courtney Anderson and Melissa Coleman, who support Kathy Colkitt’s team with their industry expertise on banking and marketing. “I love my team. They’re just the best thing ever, ever, in the world. I always look at it as ‘us’ – we are a partnership.”
By consistently growing over the years, Kathy has empowered herself to extend
her gratitude to her family and greater community. She is a former Kiwanis president and board member, a basketball and softball coach for seventeen years, and she and her husband were foster parents. “We have two daughters who both raised pigs or rabbits that went to market at our local fair, and for numerous years now, we’ve bought steers and hogs to have them butchered and sent to Citygate Downtown. They feed about 46,000 people a year, and they don’t have any meat, so we started donating that way. We also started AdoptA-Family for Christmas food, gifts, etc. and over Thanksgiving, we founded with
friends the ability to feed families on Thanksgiving day. I just love to give – I don’t even care who it is – if we have a friend in need, we just make it happen.”
When she’s not busy growing her enterprise or supporting her neighbors, Kathy enjoys celebrating with her family, particularly her youngest adopted daughter who recently graduated from college! “I’m in the process of writing a book on my oldest daughter – as she passed at age 26 and the book is about advocacy and being heard. When I can I work on my daughter’s book and keep an eye out for our wildlife like
Mac the Moose who lives in my backyard, that makes me very happy.”
Kathy has a grand online presence with video series including “Kathy’s Corner,” “Lender Alerts,” “Mortgage Minute,” and more. Find Team Kathy Home Loans on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Twitter, & YouTube. Kathy and Melissa have also developed two phenomenal interactive digital books: “Lending Your Way” for traditional loans and “Retire Your Way” for reverse mortgage loans with numerous videos from clients discussing their reasons for choosing a certain loan program along with their 5-star experiences with Kathy’s team.
