Mercedes Connects✦ business development · Oliver White Group

Meet Mercedes

Connector. Partner-builder. Professional believer in people.

Business Development Manager for the Oliver White Mortgage Group at Fairway Home Mortgage — and the person who will remember your kids' names, your closing date, and probably your rising sign.

Mercedes Forslund, Business Development Manager

The story

From the title table to the whole transaction.

Mercedes came into mortgage lending the honest way: through the title industry, where she spent years watching transactions from the closing table — seeing exactly which deals glided in smoothly and which ones limped across the finish line, and learning precisely what made the difference. She moved into lending to widen her impact: instead of seeing families at the very last step of their homeownership journey, she wanted to help shape the whole thing.

Today she's the Business Development Manager for the Oliver White Mortgage Group in Eden Prairie, where her job is relationships in every direction — connecting realtors with a lending team worth partnering with, connecting homebuyers with a loan officer worth trusting, and connecting loan officers with a platform worth building a career on. Her approach is built on integrity, loyalty, and a servant-hearted mindset: clear communication, accurate expectations, and solutions shaped to the actual human in front of her.

Off the clock, you'll find her exploring the outdoors, traveling somewhere new, or on a spontaneous adventure with her daughter. She's deeply committed to humanitarian work abroad, and she lives by Mother Teresa's philosophy: "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier." In a business full of transactions, that's her whole strategy — and it turns out it works.

And yes — the stars on this website are not a coincidence. Mercedes is genuinely into astrology, tarot, and oracle readings. Bring her your birth chart and your trickiest buyer scenario. She has opinions on both.

How she operates

Three fixed stars.

Servant-hearted, for real

Not a LinkedIn word — a working style. Mercedes measures every interaction by one question: did this person leave better than they arrived?

Loyal to a fault

Partners aren't leads to her. When Mercedes takes on your goal — a closing, a partnership, a career move — she carries it like it's her own.

Radically clear

Good news fast, hard news faster. Accurate expectations up front beat pleasant surprises never — in lending and in life.

Okay Mercedes… what's YOUR sign? 🔮
A caring one, obviously. Come find out over coffee — first reading's free, and so is the mortgage advice. ✨

Come say hi. She's exactly this warm in person.

Realtor, loan officer, homebuyer, or fellow star-chart enthusiast — text Mercedes and start the conversation.