Richard W. Rodriguez
William Adams entered the mortgage industry in 2016 with a knack for finance and an entrepreneurial streak, believing he could help others achieve the American dream of home ownership.
“It’s incredibly meaningful work that I am blessed to do,” he says.
Adams grew up in Tyler and went to the southeast to earn a degree in banking and finance at University of Georgia. He’s a proud Bulldog.
In 2024, he formed Adams Mortgage Group, powered by Guild Mortgage. He has become a top 1% producer in the country.
Adams volunteers with many local organizations such as the PGA Tour’s Charles Schwab Challenge, Cook Children’s Health Foundation, The Warm Place, University Little League, and Christ Chapel Bible Church.
Favorite quote: “When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps 100 times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the 101st blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.” — Jacob Riis