Eagle Home Loans was founded by Jon Jacobs in 2017. Jon is an East Texas native. He attended Tyler Junior College (TJC) and earned his BSBM and MBA from LeTourneau University.
In addition to his extensive banking background, Jon brings over 35 years of management experience. Jon takes pride in serving clients with excellence and respect. He values honesty, transparency and building long-term relationships.
Jon began his career in banking and lending in 2000, previously serving his clients as a branch manager and a consumer and commercial lender. Jon successfully completed hundreds of hours of lending and continuing educational training during his career, and earned his NMLS license in 2010. Jon is well versed in the areas of Interim Construction and Residential Mortgage Loans.
Jon is committed to our East Texas Community. He has served and continues to serve in leadership and volunteer roles. Currently. Jon currently serves on the Tyler Junior College Alumni Board (TJC), Tyler Area Builders Association Board (TABA), and The Rotary Club of Tyler Board. 
Betsy Brush is a Mortgage Loan Originator with Eagle Home Loans, serving homebuyers and homeowners across Texas. She is known for her clear communication, strong follow-through, and commitment to helping clients make confident, well-informed financing decisions.
With a strong background in relationship-driven service and business operations, Betsy takes pride in guiding clients through the mortgage process with clarity, transparency, and respect. She holds an MBA, a post-graduate diploma in Controlling, and the CFRE (Certified Fundraising Executive) designation.
Betsy works closely with homebuyers and real estate professionals to ensure each transaction is structured thoughtfully and moves efficiently from application to closing. She helps clients navigate conventional, FHA, VA, USDA, and jumbo loan options, collaborating closely with Eagle Home Loans’ experienced team to ensure the right loan structure for each situation. Proactive communication with all parties involved is a hallmark of her professionalism at Eagle Home Loans.
Betsy is deeply committed to serving the East Texas community. She believes trust is built through consistency, transparency, and long-term relationships, and she is passionate about helping clients use homeownership as a tool for financial stability and future planning.
She has served in leadership and volunteer roles with The Women’s Fund of Smith County, including Board Member and Vice-Chair of the Grants Committee; The Rotary Club of Tyler’s Young Citizens Awards and Celebration; and The Art Connection of East Texas, where she helped establish the annual juried art exhibition that began at the Fisch College of Pharmacy at UT Tyler and has since expanded to include additional UT Tyler departments and Tyler Junior College.
Outside of work, Betsy enjoys reading, live performances, entertaining, and—most of all—spending time with family and friends.
Characteristics of an Eagle
Eagles have many noticeable characteristics including their vision, fearlessness, and tenacity. Eagles are seen as a symbol of grace, beauty, courage, pride, bravery, freedom, and determination.
Similarly, Jon also possesses the necessary traits to provide knowledgeable experience, vision, tenacity, and fearlessness to guide you through the loan process while meeting your specific needs and meeting your closing date on time! Jon and his team are committed to being highly involved with the loan process to ensure a good experience.
- “Build relationships not transactions”
- Be the “Lender of Choice” -- providing competitive rates and lowest closing cost.
- Earn referrals from clients and realtors.
- Provide unsurpassed service after closing.
“Our priority is to provide personal service for loans that are the best fit for our clients, through a lending process that offers clarity and ease of use.”
Our goal is to achieve this through relationship building, conversations with our clients, understanding their needs and desires, future plans, and explaining the lending process. All questions will be answered for full understanding (even those you may say are silly).
In an effort to be sensitive to the clients’ time, Eagle HOME LOANS offers various methods of electronic communication (email, electronic signature, fax, online, text) while efficiently executing the lending process and closing on time. Of course, we still believe in the “old fashioned” phone call and in person meetings.
How did the name Eagle Home Loans come to be? The short answer is a strong alignment of values and character. Jon researched business names and words that appealed to him. “Eagle” was one of those words because he has admired them for as long as he could remember. His research revealed that eagles are known for their vision, fearlessness and strength. In addition, they are tenacious and fly high. Throughout American history, eagles have symbolized honesty, truth, strength, courage, power and freedom. All of these characteristics and values align with what Jon values most and envisioned for his future customers. Jon shares your vision and desire for home ownership as a basis of strength for those who live there and come to visit. Buying and maintaining a home is a worthy investment that requires tenacity to accomplish. Owning a home provides a foundation for life which, research affirms, helps people succeed and flourish. Eagle Home Loans values respect, honesty, truth, strength, courage and freedom. Adopting the Eagle as our symbol was a natural fit for communicating these values in one word, one symbol.
The logo(s) for Eagle HOME LOANS and the combination of Making your Dream a Reality with the Conventional – FHA- USDA-VA and Purchase-Refinance-Investment-New Construction are each a trademark ™ of J Deuce, LLC dba Eagle HOME LOANS. Use without permission is prohibited.
TYP, pronounced (tip), is our proprietary Thank You Program. Because of Jon’s love for his country, educators, first responders, military (active or in-active), ministry and sincere appreciation for referrals, he developed this program as his way to say Thank You!
Any applicant who is an employee or retired educator, first responder, military, or ministry employee, or has received a TYP card, will receive a $200 lender credit towards closing costs.
*The TYP card has no cash value and is not payment for business.*