Embracing Fast Small Business Loans
In today’s moving economic stream, there is no room for swimming up current. At least not when it comes to the livelihood of your business. You need to spend as little overhead as possible and bring in revenue streams as clearly as you can. For some, it is easier said than done. However, something no business or company is immune to is the unexpected occurrence of profit loss. Profit loss can stem from anything and everything: clients drying up, a natural disaster, or just a lawsuit can derail the seams of an organization in no time at all. When this happens, in order to prepare for the future, a business or company can only do one thing, and that is to seek out a loan. There are only a few places to actually do this. The first would be a bank, which means months of red tape looking for approval and divulging every last detail no matter how personal about the business you are representing. The second would be some sort of private back or loan shark, which would probably put your company at a greater risk given the interest rates loan sharks generally give, which are exorbitantly high. The last is to find a small company who deals in handing out fast small business loans.
Fast small business loans are a way of the future. Companies can get in place to provide other companies with day later finance fixes in turn for lower interest rates than loan sharks, rates comparable to banks, but that are free of approval charts.
These groups are revolutionary for a business community and can keep you moving and on your feet at all times.
There is no reason to be dragged down in your professional pursuits, no reason at all, and thus one must work accordingly when the unexpected occurs.
Some may advise against these companies, but they truly are a way of the future, and if you are a company trying to get of the road with poor credit and little collateral to your name, you need a company to provide such services.
In fact, with these outside companies moving past the difficulties posed with regulations at banks, many parts of the economy would have trouble standing on their own two feet.
Don’t take our word for it. The evidence is all around the Internet.
The last thing one needs to remember when going after fast small business loans that are separate from a bank is that the contract involved should be reviewed by a professional. At the very least, it should be read over and reviewed on your half, but the best case scenario for understanding the time table in which to pay back your fast small business loan, is to seek some outside counsel who may be interested in a little pro bono review. Believe it or not, there are many organizations who will do this free work out there in order to guide your venture down a safer path.
Small Business Loan Bailout? Stimulus Bill Pumps 730 Million Into SBA to Help Small Businesses Cope
For those small business owners who think they were ignored in the new stimulus bill (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009), think again. While the debate continues to unravel as to “who gets what and whether it is enough”, one thing is certain: more money is coming in the direction of small businesses through the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). Remember, this is the agency responsible for the outreach, licensing, and implementation of, you guessed it, money into the pockets of small businesses. This is done through private licensed lenders who have agreed to join the SBA program. In other words, if your local community bank has a commercial loan department, it might very well have a SBA department which makes these loans. They are called SBA loans because the Federal government will reimburse, to a certain percentage, defaulted loans, thereby giving incentive for the private banks to loan more money. Net effect–more loans will be available for small business concerns. This is a continuing article (20 in all) on the subject: Help. Is anyone out there loaning to small businesses anymore?
Before we talk about how much more money is available to the SBA under the stimulus package, let’s look at the current status of one of the popular SBA loan programs. There is a loan program out there and SBA lenders are actually making loans currently: the Community Express Loan Program. This gives unsecured small business loans between $5,000 and $50,000 with very little paperwork, answers typically in two days, interest rates presently at 7.75%, funding and two weeks, and monies wired directly to your business account. There are still lenders participating in this program, although Congress has failed to make the program permanent and still has a 10% cap on the number of loans.
Enter the Obama stimulus bill. Let us look how it affects this program and small business lending as a whole.
So should we be excited by the stimulus package? Isn’t it all too customary in a new spending bill for a government agency to receive more funds? Not at all as to the SBA. During the Bush Administration tenure, they could easily have renamed the agency the ISBA (Ignore Small Business Association). As they were making “sound bite” statements to the press of how they were helping small business, they were arrogantly trying to dismantle it, or when they were in a better mood, just cutting the budget.
The point is we have a new administration that actually likes small businesses. Remember these are additional monies over and above the SBA’s current budget . As we all know, budgets are determined in approximately March of each year (assuming Congress has the good graces to agree) to be used for the next year. The SBA has already received their budget. This is whipped cream placed on the top of that small business cake.
And we are not talking about token amounts here. Here is how the additional monies are broken down:
1. 375 million for temporary fee reductions or elimination on SBA loans and increased SBA loan guarantees, up to 90% for some loans. Translation: When a borrower gets a SBA loan they pay a SBA loan guarantee fee which goes to Washington and used as a war chest to pay banks if there has been a default. That guarantee fee, depending upon the loan, is currently between 50% and 85%. There is a possibility that some loan programs can now be increased to a whopping 90% guarantee. If a borrower no longer pays these fees, the money has to come from somewhere, and in this case it is taxpayers’ money which is subsidizing those fees.
2. 255 million for a new loan program to help small businesses meet existing debt payments. Translation. You have a loan secured by fixed assets or real estate and want to refinance it, either to lower payments or put more money in your pockets for expansion.
3. 30 million for expanding SBA’s Micro Loan Program, with $6 million to help finance new lending and 24 million for technical assistance grants to Micro lenders. . Translation: Under the Microloan program, the Federal government loans blocks of money to the Microloan lenders who then reloan it, at higher rates, to the deserving communities and small businesses and usually collateral is required.
4. 20 million for streamlining the SBA lending and oversight process with new technology. Translation: The streamlining process will make it faster and more efficient to process loans and oversight is to monitor SBA licensed lenders–make sure they are acting for the benefit of small businesses and complying with the program guidelines.
5. 15 million for expanding SBA’s surety bond guarantee program. Translation: If you are a building contractor and have to take out a performance or payment bond on a project, you need substantial assets to secure the bond. This will help getting your hands on that needed bond and be able to secure the contract.
6. 25 million for staffing as to the new programs.
7. 20 million for the Office of Inspector General. Translation: To inspect and audit the licensed SBA lenders.
Although one could make the argument this new law is “too little too late”, we have to give our current administration a chance to do good things with this fresh money. And don’t forget the mindset of the SBA lender. Although they are not as wildly quixotic as stock market speculators, their purses open and close based upon the mood of the country. We want them to be as comfortable as possible when we walk toward them for money.