Kari Gares — Your Okanagan Mortgage Broker
Kari Gares is a Platinum Award-Winning, Independent Mortgage Specialist, Entrepreneur, and Co-Owner of MHC Mortgage House located in Vernon, BC. With more than 27 years of experience and training in the Financial Services Industry, Kari has built a strong reputation as an outstanding Mortgage Broker, serving the lending needs of real estate professionals, builders, and home buyers throughout the province and the world.
Kari has been described as “an overachiever”, “someone who sees opportunity where others might not”, and definitely as “the one you want in your corner”. Kari’s breadth of knowledge of the real estate industry, finance industry, and mortgage lending enables her to customize a mortgage product that perfectly meets her client’s needs and goals.
From 2007 to 2010, Kari was recognized as a Platinum Award-Winning Specialist with TD Canada Trust, and in 2010 was the recipient of the Guiding Principles Award for Excellence in Leadership, Knowledge, and Sales. Kari transitioned to the Mortgage Broker Industry in 2011 and has been actively assisting clients since then. She has achieved many successes such as: Verico’s Chairman’s Club, Top 20 over 40 with the Vernon Chamber of Commerce, Woman of Influence across Canada in 2021 through the Canadian Mortgage Professionals (CMP), and many other notable distinctions.
In 2021, during the peak of COVID, Kari created and developed a program specifically geared to assist her clients as they navigate the ever-changing market. ALEX is a customer -centric program that enhances and streamlines the overall mortgage experience. Kari believes in providing the tools that will best help guide her clients through the home-buying/refinancing journey.
Kari is also an active sponsor of community events in both sports and arts-driven ventures. Her goal is to be successful in business and life in such a way that everyone benefits and grows. Kari’s dedicated and consistent ambition to create solid investment strategies for her clients and the community has allowed her to be successful and create success for those in her life.
To get in touch with Kari, use the contact form here.
“I wanted to finally take a few minutes to say thank you again for all that you did for me to get me in to my new home. I so very much appreciate your hard work, dedication, and ability to find a way to achieve what I needed despite some challenging circumstances.
I have been in my place for just over two months, I am completely settled and loving it. I have my own space, feel very relaxed and happy and now can move forward with my life because I was able to move and have that new beginning which was so crucial for me. I am at peace with everything and have such clarity in my life and feel wonderful.
I honestly can’t thank you enough for doing what you did for me. I just wanted to let you know how much it changed my life.”
– Janell