She did not inherit this department. She built it.
Before 2016, PS Bank did not have a mortgage department. Today it does, and it exists because Lori Rudalavage built it.
She had already spent more than sixteen years running her own mortgage company as its president and owner. In 2016 she brought that business into PS Bank, a community bank that has been lending in this part of Pennsylvania since 1914, and PS Mortgage grew out of it. Other lenders work in that department now.
That is not the usual story. Most loan officers walk into a job that was already there. Lori built the desk she sits at, which means she knows how every part of it works.
She started out as a branch manager at a local bank after graduating from the University of Scranton, and moved into mortgages in the middle of the 1990s. She grew up in Carbondale. She serves on the Lackawanna Heritage Valley board and the Broadway Theater League board.
She told Happenings Magazine that guiding people through this process is “an opportunity to make a lasting impact.”