Plain English only
Every term, every trade-off, every number explained the way you would explain it to your best friend — then a check that you actually got it. Confusing jargon is a service failure, not a sign of expertise.
Meet Shane
Credentials
- Branch Sales Manager · Loan Officer, Fairway Home Mortgage
- NMLS #1828892 · verify
- Licensed in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Florida, Missouri, North Dakota & South Dakota
- Scotsman Guide Top Originator
- Lead, Manor Mortgage
- Altoona, WI · Eden Prairie, MN
- Serving Eau Claire, the Chippewa Valley & western Wisconsin · Minneapolis, St. Paul & the Twin Cities
The story
Shane Manor leads Manor Mortgage at Fairway Home Mortgage — a first-time-buyer team working the Chippewa Valley from Altoona and the Twin Cities from Eden Prairie, which matters more than it sounds when the house is across the river, the taxes are a different county, and the offer deadline is Sunday at five.
He works with the people the mortgage industry tends to wave off: first-time buyers, single buyers relying on one income, and anyone who has been told to "come back when you've saved more." Those buyers are not harder. They just need someone who will explain it like a friend would, check that they actually got it, and move fast when it counts.
Shane runs every file on three rules. Plain English — confusing jargon is a service failure. Honesty over deals — if waiting, or keeping the loan you have, is the better move, you'll hear it. And speed as respect — quick answers, fast pre-approvals when the documents allow, and updates before you have to ask.
Shane started Manor Mortgage small and grew it the slow way — one closing, one referral, one kept promise at a time — and he hires the same way: people who work hard in a competitive market and stay kind while they do it. Off the clock, you'll find him in the northwoods: deer stands, fishing boats and a cabin with bad cell service, which is the one place he's hard to reach.
Behind him is Fairway Home Mortgage — the processing, underwriting and closing team that keeps a file moving while Shane is on the phone with your listing agent.
Shane · Branch Sales Manager · Loan Officerhonestly i'm not sure i'm 'ready' to buy yet
Most people who say that are closer than they think. Ten minutes and I'll tell you where you actually stand — no pressure either way. 🙂
How Shane works
Honesty over closings
If waiting is the better move, Shane says so. If your current loan beats a refinance, he tells you to keep it. Long-term trust beats a short-term commission — every time.
Speed is respect
Quick answers, fast pre-approvals when the documents allow, and proactive updates at every milestone — because waiting on a lender is its own kind of stress.
Fairway Home Mortgage · Altoona & Eden Prairie
When you text Shane, you get Shane. What you don't see is the team behind him — Manor Mortgage's loan officers and processor, plus Fairway's underwriters and closers, all working the same file. That is why a question asked on a Sunday night gets a real answer, and why closing dates hold.
Fairway Home Mortgage is a dba of Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation, an independent mortgage lender headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, with every major loan program — conventional, FHA, VA, USDA, jumbo, renovation, WHEDA and Minnesota Housing — under one roof.
The Altoona branch →
Altoona, WI 54720
Say hi
A question, a scenario, a house you drove past, a refinance you keep putting off — text it over. Nights and weekends are fine.
Text Shane · 715-577-5658 →Apply with Shane at Fairway
Applications happen on Fairway's secure site — never here.