Quicken Loans Inc., headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, is the 5th largest retail mortgage lender overall in the United States and the largest online. The company consists of the QuickenLoans.com online lending site, the Rock Financial brand in southeast Michigan, One Reverse Mortgage, based in San Diego, California, and Title Source, a mortgage settlement service provider. In 2010, Quicken Loans processed approximately $29 billion in residential mortgage loans. The company employs about 4,750 people and is listed as one of the Top 30 Best Places to Work in America by Fortune magazine, a... notable mention it has held for several years. The recently launched Quicken Loans Zing Blog was rated as one of the top five corporate blogs by Sprout Social Insights in 2011. . Quicken Loans, originally Rock Financial Corporation, was founded in 1985 by Dan Gilbert along with his younger brother, film producer Gary Gilbert, their childhood friend Lindsay Gross, and Ron Berman. Rock Financial soon became one of the largest independent mortgage companies in the country.
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