Columbus, Ohio
Send us an address. We’ll tell you if it works.
Real comps, real loan terms, real numbers — underwritten by the people who actually fund the deal. Back to you by 9 AM tomorrow.
Free. No course, no coaching program, no guru. You don’t have to be ready to buy anything — and you don’t need a property picked out yet, either.
The deal desk
Found something? Send it over.
MLS, Zillow, a wholesaler’s list, or a house you drove past on the way to work.
We run it like it’s ours — real comps, real loan terms, real numbers. Not a rule of thumb, not a formula off YouTube.
If it’s a bad deal, we’ll tell you it’s a bad deal. That’s most of them. We’d rather you not buy it than buy it with our money.” Bold the first sentence only.
Our standard
What we promise, in writing.
Nobody else in this market will put a clock on it in public. That’s the difference between people who teach investing and people who close.
Where we’d start you
Three ways to structure a first deal.
Most first-time investors land in one of these three. We’ll steer you toward whichever fits — and if you’re after something else, tell us anyway. We lend outside this list too; these are just where a first deal tends to work best.
Building something bigger — new construction, multifamily, a 1031? Tell us anyway. Terms vary by loan type and are subject to underwriting and credit approval. Not a commitment to lend.
How it goes
Four steps. No homework.
You send an address — or ask for one
MLS, Zillow, a wholesaler, a house you drove past — or nothing at all. We keep a short list of off-market deals too.
We underwrite it
Comps and numbers from Nick, terms from Cayden, title from Jamie — rental, BRRRR, or flip.
We tell you the truth
It works, it doesn’t, or it works at a different price. Most don’t.
Then we close it
Same three people to the table. Nobody hands you off.
Answered plainly
You’re probably thinking one of these.
Including the ones where the honest answer isn’t comfortable.
What if I can’t find a renter?
Vacancy runs low in the neighborhoods we work, but it happens. We build a month of vacancy a year into every rental underwrite, so the cash flow you’re looking at already carries it.
What if the rehab runs over budget?
It’s the single most common way a BRRRR or a flip goes sideways — see the Hilltop file above. We stress-test the rehab number before you close, not after.
I don’t have 20% sitting in an account.
Most first-time buyers don’t. Down payment requirements vary by deal type — a hard money flip and a DSCR rental aren’t the same math. Tell us what you actually have and we’ll tell you what’s real.
Am I too late? Everyone says the good deals are gone.
The easy ones are. The math still works in Columbus at the right price on the right street, which is why we run numbers instead of talking in generalities. Some months we tell people to wait.
Your team
Three people. One closing table.
Most first deals die in the gap between the agent, the lender and the title company. There is no gap here — we work the same file.
Cayden Wilson
Lender · Clearfund
Writes the loan. DSCR, hard money, and everything in between.
cayden@ · (614) 205-0799
Nickolas Pasquale
Realtor & Property Manager · Parker Realty
Finds it, comps it, then manages it. One contact from purchase to your first rent check.
nick@ · (740) 513-1951
Jamie Lutz
Title & Escrow · Old Crawford
Clears title and gets you to the table so closing day doesn’t hold up your first deal.
jamie@ · (419) 562-4978
Third Thursday, Monthly
We do this live, in front of the room.
We don’t lecture. We take addresses out of the room and underwrite them on stage — rentals, BRRRRs, flips, whatever someone brings — start to finish, about ten minutes each. Bring one of your own and it might be yours.
Come alone. Sit in the back. Nobody will make you introduce yourself, nobody will call on you, nobody is pitching you anything at the end.
Our commitment
What we will never sell you.
No course. No mastermind. No five-thousand-dollar mentorship. No inner circle. No upsell at the back of the room.
We make money exactly one way: when you close a deal that actually works. If the numbers don’t work, we don’t get paid — which is precisely why we’ll tell you when they don’t.
Signed, personally
I read every address that comes in. Not a team, not an assistant — me, usually before the market opens.
I started this because I kept watching first-time buyers get sold a $5,000 course by somebody who’s never closed a loan, then show up at my desk with a property that was never going to work. Nobody had run the math for them. So now we run it, free, whether or not you ever borrow a dollar from us.
Cayden Wilson
FOUNDER, CLEARFUND
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