Meet Ben
Benjamin Franklin Lucero was born in Las Cruces New Mexico in 1962 and lived there until he graduated from Mayfield High School in 1980. He attended the University of Missouri on a full Track and Field Scholarship as a High jumper. He graduated from Mizzou in December of 1985. His Track and Field achievements took him as far as the Olympic trials in 1984 and 1988 placing 12th and 16th respectively. He took his competitiveness and determination into the sales field immediately after college. During his employment at Goldome Acceptance Mortgage Division, Ben was honored as the national salesman of the year in 1988 the same year he competed in the Olympic Trials. Wanting to move back to Gods country (New Mexico) Ben came to Albuquerque in 1989.
He pursued his sales career in Pharmaceuticals was again honored with the national salesman of the year for Novartis Neuroscience Pharmaceuticals in 2001. Being that travel was at 80% of the time, Ben resigned from the pharmaceutical business and started to work for Bank of America in their small business commercial division because his wife was pregnant with their first child.
He completed a vigorous and intense training program to become a certified commercial banker with Bank of America. In 2003 Ben decided it was time to utilize his talents and become his own boss and that is when Indigo Mortgage was born 01/01/2003.
Not wanting to be just another mortgage broker Ben was determined to be a specialist in different types of lending so he formed separate divisions to make sure consumers were getting the expertise of each type of mortgage program and not just a broker doing different kinds of loans. He started with the Residential Division as his experience from Goldome Acceptance Mortgage Division proved he was proficient in residential lending. He also started the commercial division as he had the certification from Bank of America in commercial lending. He saw a need for construction loans in Albuquerque so he decided to become an expert in construction loans and got certified with every one time construction loan company that offered a certification which took many hours of online training for each company to get their certification. So that’s when the construction division started. Then Ben saw a need for veterans to understand and access the VA mortgage loan programs so he studied the VA loan programs and got VA lender approvals form several VA mortgage backed lenders and now the VA mortgage loan center secures more VA mortgage loans than any broker in New Mexico.
Ben has a profound faith in the Lord Jesus and contributes the success and growth of Indigo Mortgage to God being faithful to his business.
