Close fast. Keep your cash working.
An active investor and private-capital practice built for realtors with pocket listings and investors who need to move. Walnut acquires, builds, and closes in 21 days. A career as a private lender. A network of relationships most people can't reach. One operator who has already walked both sides of the deal.
The best deals don't wait for a bank. They come and go on a 21-day fuse. They reward the investors who can move, and they punish the ones who can't. Walnut Ventures exists for that gap. As an active investor, a builder, and a private-capital operator, we sit between opportunity and capital, where speed and structure decide everything. Bring us your pocket listing; we'll close it.
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The guy who ran the other side of the table.
A career at CV3 Financial, a private lender, structuring bridge loans, construction financing, and short and long-term acquisitions for real estate investors across the country. That is where the playbook was built, by running thousands of deals through underwriting and watching which ones closed clean and which ones fell apart.
Walnut Ventures is what came after. I left lending to move into development. The relationships stayed. The instincts stayed. Now I put them to work for investors who need certainty of close, creative structure, and someone on their side who has already sat in the lender's chair.
Today, Walnut is an active investor and builder in Southern California. The Manhattan Beach project in Chapter 03 is our own deal — we sourced it, closed it, and are building on it. Realtors with pocket listings and off-market deals get a counterparty who underwrites fast, closes on the timeline you quote the seller, and keeps it quiet.
Cash is king. You don't need to tie it all up to close quickly. That is the line that runs through every deal here.
Four rules, no exceptions.
The principles that govern every deal Walnut Ventures takes on. Short list. Non-negotiable.
Speed is the product.
When the deal has a 21-day fuse, a 5-week conventional close is not an alternative. Every structure starts with "can we close on their timeline" and works backwards from there.
Liquidity stays liquid.
You did not build cash to park it in a purchase. Bridge, draw schedules, and refi strategies exist so your capital keeps compounding on the next opportunity, not sitting in title.
Exit is architecture.
Every bridge deal gets a refi plan on day one. Permits, stabilization, or sale. You know the shape of the exit before you ever sign the short-term.
Relationships over transactions.
Clear expectations. Clear timelines. No surprises, no last-minute terms. Realtors who bring us a deal keep their client and their commission, full stop. The deal you walk into is the deal you close, and the relationship is how the next one starts.
Cash is king. But you don't need to tie it all up just to close quickly.
Andrew McCarthy · Walnut VenturesFour ways to move capital without losing the deal.
Bridge Loans
Short-term capital, closed in weeks, not months. Structured with no prepayment penalties so you keep full optionality on timing and exit.
Weeks, not MonthsPurchase Financing
Beat the 5-to-6 week conventional close. Move on pocket listings, auctions, and private sales where speed decides the winner.
Off-Market ReadyConstruction Funding
Structured on a draw schedule so rehab and new build costs get funded as milestones hit. Liquidity stays on the next deal, not in the slab.
Draw-BasedRefi Strategy
A clean exit to conventional, planned from day one. Once permits close or the property stabilizes, we convert and lock in terms.
Planned Day OneA pocket listing on a 21-day fuse.
Manhattan Beach, CA. Never hit the open market. Conventional financing would have killed the deal. Here is how it actually closed.
A pocket listing came across our radar and never hit the open market. The seller needed speed, a 21-day close. Conventional financing at five to six weeks would have cost us the property outright.
We leveraged existing lender relationships to secure a bridge loan with no prepayment penalty, which gave full flexibility on timing. We closed in three weeks. With South Bay permits running roughly six months, the refi is already lined up to convert to conventional the moment the property is ready.
for an off-market single-family acquisition in Manhattan Beach, California, closed on a twenty-one day timeline at eighty percent loan-to-value.
OpportunityDay 0
SecuredDay 4
FundedDay 21
in Progress~ Month 6
ConventionalOn Ready
Have a pocket listing like this?
Bring us the address. We underwrite fast, close on the timeline you quote the seller, and keep the deal quiet. You look good to your client. Your seller hits the close date. Everybody wins.
Bring Us a Deal →What good deals look like.
Not every deal is a fit. Here is the shape of the work Walnut Ventures is built for, and the structure most deals land inside.
The Fit
The Structure
Clear expectations. Clear timelines. No surprises.
Send the listing or the deal.
Realtor or principal, send the address, timeline, scope, and where you are in the process. A five-minute conversation to confirm fit before anything else moves. Your listing stays yours. Your client stays yours.
Structure the capital.
Match the deal to the right lender relationship. Run the numbers. Map the exit. You see terms, rates, and timelines before you commit to anything at all.
Close and execute.
Funded on time. Draw schedule set. Refi plan ready to go. I stay in the deal through the milestones, so you never wonder where you stand.
Send me the address.
Whether you're a realtor with a pocket listing or an investor staring down a 21-day fuse, the ask is the same. Why tie up liquidity in a purchase when you can run the deal clean, with clear expectations and clear timelines? Send me the address. We take it from there.
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