Basics
Getting Started with Trestle
Welcome — Trestle is a self-service underwriting platform for net lease commercial real estate.
Signing up
- Go to trestlecre.com and click Get Started (or Sign Up Free)
- Pick the Broker signup flow (or Lender if you're a lender)
- Verify your email
- You'll land on your dashboard with 1 free credit — enough to underwrite one deal end-to-end
Submitting your first deal
- Click Submit Deal in the sidebar (or "Submit New Deal" from the dashboard)
- Drop your Offering Memorandum (OM) PDF into the upload zone
- Optionally add: lease document, comps PDF, property financials
- Click Extract Deal Data — Trestle's AI parses everything in 30-60 seconds
- Review the extracted data on the next screen. Edit anything that's wrong (the AI sometimes mis-reads numbers).
- Click Submit Deal
The pipeline runs automatically: credit, environmental, appraisal, title, and underwriting all in parallel. Total time: about 3 minutes.
What you get
After the pipeline finishes, you'll see:
- Pipeline cards at the top of the deal page (status of each step)
- Underwriting summary — composite score and recommendation
- DD detail pages — Credit, Environmental, Appraisal, Title (click each card)
- Deal package — a 30+ page financing memorandum you can download as a PDF, branded with your logo
Next steps
- Upload your logo + organization name in the Profile page so deal packages carry your brand
- Try the Comp Tracker to save sales/lease comps for future deals
- When you're ready, Submit to Lender Marketplace to get offers from lenders
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