With all the bad news about the economy, everywhere you look mortgage companies, brokers, and residential lenders closing their doors does it still make sense to try to get money for a commercial loan?

The answer is categorically YES!

There is a LOT of money available for projects that make solid economic sense. Unlike residential purchases based on emotion, commercial and business purchases need to based on making economic; sense ie. they must cash flow.

If a lender can determine after all expenses that there is enough coverage between what the project needs to make it stay afloat and what the project needs to support for debt service and operations, a lender will gladly lend the money for the purchase.

There is never any shortage of capital for projects that will make money.

One must not forget the major distinction between residential loans and commercial lending, the secondary market. Most if not all residential lenders sell their loans after booking them to a strong secondary market buyer such as FNMA, GNMA or FHLMC.

With commercial lenders they do not sell the loan to a secondary market provider. They portfolio their loans, which means that they hold the loans as the investor. They have made a very conscious decision to stay part of your deal for the next five, ten or even twenty years.

They believe in you and your project.

Because they belive in your strength as well as the projected return that you are reflecting on your loan application they lend you their capital.

There is and always will be money for economically sensible projects, whether for the acquisition of a new business or an investment property.

Contact us to show you how to get the money that your project or business acquisition needs.

Key Commercial Loan Indexes

Fed Prime Rate 8.250%

10-Year CMT 4.550%

30-Year CMT 4.850%

USD 6 MOS LIBOR 5.542%

As of September 4, 2007

This article deals with how a new business buyer can finance the purchase of the underlying land as well as the business opportunity through the SBA.

The SBA has a loan program called the 504 program, which is specifically used for the financing of Real Estate oriented transactions, which can be a part of a business acquisition, expansion or refinance.

The benefit to financing a Real Estate Oriented transaction through the SBA is that a business as a start up can buy real estate as part of the initial operation of the business, or an ongoing business can be sold with the real estate as well without the need for outside collateral, ie., the borrowers home.

The SBA has a very aggressive program when Real Estate is involved. An SBA loan can be up to $4.0 million for Owner Occupied Commercial Real Estate Transactions.

Borrower Benefits

Low down payment of only 10%
Loan Repayment Terms - reducing monthly payments
Can be long term fixed rate unlike traditional SBA 7A loans


Use of Proceeds

Purchase, refinance, construction or renovation of owner-occupied commercial real estate property.

Standard Loan Structure

50% First Mortgage up to 3 million, 25 years fully amortized
40% SBA 504 second mortgage, 20 years fully amortized
10% down payment by borrower.


The above is commonly known as a 50/40/10.

As you can see there is as great deal of flexibility when structuring SBA Loans, this is just another benefit that SBA financing offers the business owner.

I've been talking to my local banker about getting an investment property loan and he keeps mentioning that it has to be a recourse loan. My question is what exactly is a recourse loan?

B. Rae, San Diego

To understand what the banker was referring to; you must realize that there are only two types of guarantees or security that the bank will accept; the first type of loan being recourse and the other being non-recourse.

In a recourse loan the investor is pledging additional collateral over and above the underlying property they are buying as well as personally guaranteeing the loan with any other assets available should they default.

While the investor who receives a non-recourse loan is only pledging the property that the loan is used for. The bank or financial institution can only go against the property and not the individual borrower should the borrower default..

Please email your questions to "Ask Your Financial Broker" at Askthebroker@loanforbiz.com.

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