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Every community has that one person everybody calls when the bank says no. For families in Las Vegas and for clients all over the country, that call goes to Diana Dikes.
Dikes is a National Lender Specialist with ML Mortgage Corp and the newest Urban City Podcast Entrepreneur of the Week. The folks who work with her know her by another name. They call her The Money Lady, and after more than 20 years in lending, she has earned it one closing at a time.
Major Takeaways
- Diana Dikes brings more than 20 years of lending experience to families and business owners across the country.
- Her toolbox covers purchase loans, refinancing, hard money, business and SBA lending, reverse mortgages and veteran loans.
- She is known as The Money Lady, with a gift for the hard files other lenders walk away from.
- One call to Diana covers the whole plan, from a first home to a growing business to a lasting legacy.
Dikes works from Las Vegas, where she is a familiar face in the rooms where money and opportunity get discussed. She has taken the stage at gatherings like Tech Alley Henderson and JQ60 Voices to talk about mortgages and lending, and her booth, wrapped in The Money Lady branding, is a fixture at community events.
Ask her what she does and she will not hand you a single product. She will hand you a menu. A young family buying its first home. A homeowner chasing a better rate. An investor who needs hard money and needs it fast. A veteran putting hard earned benefits to work. A business owner ready to expand. Each one gets a plan built around the goal in front of them.
She teaches buyers how to use the equity in the home they already own to win the home they want, without selling first and without moving twice. In a market where a weak offer dies on the table, that kind of strategy is often the difference between watching and winning.
She also believes an educated buyer is a dangerous buyer, in the best way. Her page walks first time buyers through the approval process step by step, the pay stubs, the tax returns, the bank statements, the photo ID, and she tells them to do it first and save the stress later. That homework, done early, is what turns a hopeful shopper into the strongest offer on the table.
And she has not forgotten the ones who built the block before us. Veterans can call on her to put their earned benefits to work in a home loan, and elders weighing a reverse mortgage get the same patience and the same plain talk, because a lifetime of equity should work for the family that built it.
Her favorite files are the ones with a story behind them. One recent spotlight from her office tells it well. A family came to her with income from their own business, the kind of paperwork that makes big lenders nervous, and a deadline closing in fast. Her team structured the loan and got it done. In the words of those happy homeowners: “We almost lost hope, but Diana’s expertise made the impossible possible! We have our dream home now!”
This is bigger than mortgages. Homeownership remains the front door to generational wealth for Black families, at a moment when interest rates refuse to come down and Black families are paying more for credit while the Black wealth gap keeps widening. A lender who shows up in the community, explains every line in plain language and actually answers the phone is not a luxury. She is a strategy.
Her tagline says it plain. Guiding You Home. That is why Urban City Podcast is proud to name Diana Dikes our Entrepreneur of the Week.
Diana Dikes, in her own words:
Trailblazer Innovative Resilient Strategic Driven Diana Dikes National Lender Specialist! Inspiring Resourceful Game-changer for my Community, all types of lending money sources. Purchase, Refinance, Hard Money, Business and SBA, Reverse Mortgage, Veteran loans over 20 years Nationally. Dependable, Responsive, Trustworthy, Reliable, Knowledgeable for all your needs to meet your financial goals!
Ready to talk? Call Diana Dikes at 702-208-6381.
Diana Dikes, ML Mortgage Corp, NMLS 362312
