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Tips For Using Bridge Loans
Bridge loans are a form of debt financing typically used when real estate developers and businesses need quick, short-term financing to meet immediate needs for a few months up to a year or two.
Most bridge loans are asset-based and backed by collateral such as real estate, equipment or inventory. It is always a short-term loan, typically until longer term financing is secured or until cash is injected to pay it off, such as from an impending asset sale. So lenders must see a viable exit strategy. Benefits of bridge loan financing...
Tips For Using Bridge Loans
Bridge loans are a form of debt financing typically used when real estate developers and businesses need quick, short-term financing to meet immediate needs for a few months up to a year or two.
Most bridge loans are asset-based and backed by collateral such as real estate, equipment or inventory. It is always a short-term loan, typically until longer term financing is secured or until cash is injected to pay it off, such as from an impending asset sale. So lenders must see a viable exit strategy. Benefits of bridge loan financing...
Four Small Hotel Financing Tips
Raising capital is one of the most difficult challenges faced by today’s small hotel and motel entrepreneurs. To help increase your odds of success, here are four tips for securing hotel debt financing.
1) Market data – In your business plan make sure to include permitting issues, market analysis, standard hotel performance data comparisons, and engineering reports if your project is a renovation/conversion...
Five Tips For Financing Commercial Real Estate
Securing debt for commercial real estate projects, acquisitions, construction or refinancing, requires knowledge of how the lending market views risk. To help understand how lenders will view your project here are five tips:
1) Estimate Realistic Financing Costs
From a lending point of view, every commercial real estate project has its own underlying loan risk. Rates and terms will be based on how these risks are evaluated. Factors evaluated include the location, as-is and as-completed appraisals...
Rural Business Financing
One of the biggest challenges facing a new or existing rural business is securing adequate financing.
But for the right rural projects there are good options available for affordable debt financing in single digits. This includes rural industrial businesses, oil & gas companies, commercial real estate projects, agricultural processors and hospitality businesses...