LOCAL HERO | SHANE TIBIATOWSKI
Original publish date: July-August 2017
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Where is he now? Navy Veteran Shane Tibiatowski’s story originally ran in the July-August 2017 issue of The Good Life. In the last three years, Tibiatowski has worked to maintain relationships with friends and Navy buddies whom he served with. He has also transitioned to a new company, Peoples Home Equity Mortgage Lending, continuing to serve people through mortgage work. Tibiatowski takes great pride in giving back to those who give back and is especially thrilled that the company has expanded who they give back to and what they give back for. He remains honored to be involved in the Homes for Heroes program and passionate about helping fellow veterans.
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WRITTEN BY: BRITTNEY GOODMAN PHOTOS BY: URBAN TOAD MEDIA
Shane Tibiatowski, U.S. Navy veteran, has experienced the excitement of traveling the world on three different battle tours and even apprehended several drug running ships. However, for the last seventeen years, he has served a somewhat quieter, but satisfying role as a mortgage lending officer focusing on helping other veterans. Tibiatowski is an award-winning specialist helping veterans own homes. For 2016, Tibiatowski was sixth in the nation among lending specialists in the “Homes for Heroes” program. Through
the home loans he facilitated, he gave back $164,000 to veterans during 2016. And he proudly displays the big crystal trophy. Graduating from West Fargo High School in 1990, seven days later he was in boot camp for the Navy in Orlando, FL. He said, “It sounds like a vacation spot, but it was not.” After ten weeks of boot camp during a very hot summer, he went to A School in Meridian, Mississippi, a place that he said “was even hotter than Florida. There was no cool breeze.”
