About Don Proctor

The banking veteran behind Your Mortgage Toolbox.

Don Proctor, Your Mortgage Toolbox
Founder & Creator

Don Proctor

37-Year Banking & Mortgage Veteran — Dallas / Fort Worth, Texas

Don Proctor has spent 37 years inside the banking and lending industry, the first 15 of them focused exclusively on residential mortgage lending. During that time, he closed more than 2,000 mortgage loans for borrowers across all 50 states — giving him a ground-level understanding of what real homebuyers need to know before they ever sit down with a lender.

The rest of his career has been spent doing commercial lending alongside mortgage work, deepening his understanding of how credit, cash flow, and underwriting decisions actually get made at the institutional level.

Don spent four years studying Aerospace Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington before stepping into the banking industry — a foundation that shows in the precision of how these calculators are built. He later earned a graduate degree in banking from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

37
Years in banking
& lending
2,000+
Mortgage loans
personally closed
50
States with
lending experience
8
Free calculators
built for you

Education

Aerospace Engineering studies — University of Texas at Arlington
Graduate Degree in Banking — University of Wisconsin at Madison

Specialties

Residential mortgage lending · Commercial lending · Underwriting · Loan structuring · Real estate finance across all 50 states

Based In

Dallas / Fort Worth, Texas
Serving homebuyers, real estate professionals, and lenders nationwide.

Why I Built These Calculators

After decades of sitting across the table from borrowers, I kept seeing the same problem: people came in without a clear picture of what their mortgage would actually cost them. They had rough estimates from online sources that left out taxes, insurance, PMI, or the real cash they'd need at closing. They were making one of the biggest financial decisions of their lives with incomplete information.

I built Your Mortgage Toolbox to fix that. These are the same calculations I've run by hand thousands of times — now available free, to anyone, before they ever pick up the phone. No sign-up required, no sales pitch on the other end. Just the real numbers, clearly laid out, so you can walk into any conversation with a lender fully prepared.

If you're a real estate agent or loan officer who wants to put these tools in front of your clients with your own branding, I offer that too. The calculators are the same — they just carry your name instead of mine.

Ready to run the numbers? All 8 calculators are free — no account, no sign-up, no pressure.

Use the Free Calculators →