Experience the thrill of homeownership. We'll guide you through every step of the home-buying process, leveraging our ninja-like skills to secure the best financing options tailored to your needs.
Our team will help you explore refinancing options that align with your financial goals. From lowering your interest rate to tapping into your home's equity, we'll ensure a swift and hassle-free refinancing process.
Explore our diverse range of loan programs, each designed to meet your unique needs. Our commitment to authenticity means you receive personalized advice on the best loan program for your situation.
Trust Optimal Rate to bring authenticity, transparency, and efficiency to the forefront, ensuring your journey to homeownership is not just a transaction, but a transformative experience tailored to you.
We pride ourselves on delivering genuine, personalized service that reflects our commitment to your unique homeownership goals.
Transparency is our guiding principle – we believe in clear communication, providing you with a comprehensive understanding of the mortgage process.
Our efficiency is your advantage, as we navigate the complexities of securing the ideal home loan with ninja-like precision.
Our streamlined process ensures most loans close in just 15 days, setting a new industry standard for speed and accuracy. Compared to other mortgage brokers, our turnaround times are an astonishing 2-3 times quicker, reflecting our commitment to efficient service.
Tailor your interest rate lock to perfection with our custom options! Choose any duration between 8 days and 365 days, allowing you to secure the ideal timeframe that aligns seamlessly with your financial plans.
Our clients have the flexibility to complete the closing process using a computer or smartphone. This convenient option is applicable to all conventional purchases and refinances, ensuring a hassle-free experience regardless of your location.
At Optimal Rate, we believe that the loan process should be predictable and painless. The only way for any mortgage company to achieve this is to have a thorough understanding of how the loan process works and to have the right people in the key roles that interact with your loan at various stages of the process.
You will need to complete a loan application either in person or online through a secure encrypted online application that your mortgage advisor will provide to you. For your mortgage application be ready to provide the last 2 years of addresses you have lived and employers you have worked for as well as your income and assets (if applicable). Based on your application and a preliminary conversation you will be provided with a detailed list of supporting documents needed to best get you ready to move forward in your journey.
Once your application and income documents have been reviewed and it is determined that you are pre-qualified you will receive a pre-qual letter that lets your real estate agent and the potential seller know you are legitimate and ready to make an offer to purchase a home.
Congratulations! You are under contract to purchase a home! Now is the time to look at locking in your interest rate. While we do not have a crystal ball, at Optimal Rate Home Loans we get notifications from several different market sources throughout the day advising us in real time what interest rates are doing, have been doing and might do soon. Your mortgage advisor will share this information with you and together strategize on whether to lock or not right away.
Prior to your file being reviewed by an underwriter, there are a series of checks and verifications that are ordered in the loan setup. Your SSN will be verified with the Social Security Administration, your tax returns will be compared to what the IRS has on file, and we will verify your employment directly through your employer. With certain types of loans, other verifications will be ordered depending on the program guidelines. We also do a second review of all the documentation provided and see if anything else is needed from you prior to submitting the loan to the underwriter. After all of this has been completed the loan is submitted to the underwriter for review.
The underwriter’s job is to review what has been submitted and ensure that it meets the agency or investor’s loan guidelines. Assuming that your loan does, the underwriter will issue an initial credit approval. This initial credit approval will contain a list of conditions that have to be met in order for the loan to be final approved.
Our goal at Optimal Rate Home Loans is to have 2 touches to underwriting, initial submission and resubmitting of requested conditions to get your loan final approved and cleared for closing. Once cleared to close we will request your initial closing disclosure be sent for your review. This will start a 72-hour clock for signing final loan documents.
Once your loan is cleared to close by underwriting the lenders closing department and the title company will begin finalizing numbers including your monies needed at closing, preparing your final loan documents and scheduling your appointment to come in and sign.
Please note: Before the lenders closing department will release final loan documents to the title company, they will have to re-verify your employment and whether you have opened any new credit since your initial application was completed. DO NOT OPEN ANY NEW CREDIT OR CHANGE/QUITE JOBS WITHOUT LETTING YOUR MORTGAGE ADVISOR KNOW.
This is the exciting part-getting your home! There is not much required from you at this point other than make your signing appointment on time, have your ID and any closing funds needed in the form of a cashier’s check and or have had it wired to the title company already. You will have already received the final number and instructions prior to this point. CONGRATULATIONS FROM YOUR FRIENDS AT OPTIMAL RATE HOME LOANS!