Broker Cheetah helps traditional loan officers place hard money loans by matching each deal to lenders that actually fit — using the same underwriting skills you already have, just applied differently.
If you're a traditional loan officer, there's a reason hard money sounds intimidating.
It's not because the math is harder.
It's not because the underwriting is foreign.
And it's definitely not because you lack the skill.
It's because hard money forces you to look at deals differently — and no one ever shows you how to make that shift.
If you can do all of this:
…then you already have 90% of the skillset required to place hard money loans. What's missing isn't competence. It's context.
That mindset makes sense — when: Timelines are long / Products are standardized / And lenders rarely change their rules
shove a hard money deal into a conventional workflow
...and here's what you get:
Instead of asking:
Does this lender want this deal?
You ask:
Does this deal fit this lender's appetite?
That single shift unlocks:
You get a call from a borrower. The property is solid. The numbers work. But the borrower's credit is 640, the down payment is 15%, and the project timeline is tight. None of your conventional lenders will touch it.
So you do what every good loan officer does: you start calling around.
First call: "We don't do fix-and-flips in that market."
Second call: "Your LTV is too high for us."
Third call: "We love this deal, but we need 30 days of seasoning on the borrower's capital. You have that?"
You're back to the borrower saying, "We're working on some options," when really you're spinning your wheels.
By call six, you're not even sure which lenders care about which metrics anymore. You've burned time, your credibility is wearing thin, and the deal is losing its window.
And that's when it hits you: Hard money is a headache.
Traditional lending teaches you: "Here's the product. Fit the deal to it."
Hard money requires the opposite: "Here's the deal. Find the lender who wants it."
When loan officers finally stop guessing and start matching:
That's not underwriting. That's trial-and-error.
You input the deal variables:
Our system analyzes the deal against every lender's actual appetite across four core factors:
You get:
60–90 day conventional timelines → 7–14 day hard money closes
Hard money isn't about learning a whole new profession. It's about removing friction from deals you already know how to evaluate.
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Start With 5 Free Credits →$99 / $249 / $349 per month. Annual plans are $948 / $2,388 / $3,348.
Pipeline supports manual submission: select a lender, download required docs, then check manual loan submission complete.
Unlimited normal use with the core residential lender workflow.
Good fit if you want to: place your first few hard money deals and prove the workflow.
Unlimited normal use with deal and client workflow tools.
Good fit if you want to: run real volume without trial-and-error.
Unlimited normal use with automation, additional seats, and dedicated support.
Good fit if you want to support a higher-volume workflow and move fast at scale.
One seat is included. Additional seats are $50 per seat/month.
If you're still on the fence, that's a good thing. It means you're thinking like an underwriter.
You don't need to:
You already know how to evaluate deals. The only missing piece is a way to match each deal to lenders that actually fit — fast. That's what Broker Cheetah does.