SBA Rules Might Change!

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by a searcher from Morehouse College
in New York, NY, USA

6yrs ago

SBA Rules Might Change!

Good news for anybody closing a deal using an SBA loan. Attached a link below to the Senate's proposed changes to the SBA program. Here's a blurb below that impacts us:

Specifically, Chairman Rubio’s bill would:

Waive all fees for all 7(a) loans for one year for both lenders and borrowers.
Provide a 90 percent loan guarantee for all loans, no matter the size.
Increase the loan limit for SBA Express from $350,000 to $1 million. This program currently provides an accelerated turnaround time of 36 hours for SBA review, and provides a revolving line of credit for small businesses.

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reply by an investor 6yrs ago
in Palm Beach, FL, USA

Business Emergency Funding & Relief Programs

All – please find below a link to a compilation of emergency funding and relief programs we developed to help small and medium sized businesses immediately source and generate the short-term funds they need to continue to pay their workers, key suppliers and vendors.

We will be updating and improving this site several times a day as new information becomes available including the important Small Business Interruption Loan Program that is proposed in the US Senate.

If we’ve missed an important program or resource please send it our way so we can add it to the site.

Feel free to forward to anyone else that needs it.

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reply by a lender 2yrs ago
in Stuart, FL, USA

Look at it the same way an underwriter is going to look at it. 1-What caused the spike in gross sales? 2-is this growth trend sustainable? 3-has the business plateaued at these numbers? 4-what is causing the management turnover? A lot of the time the sellers want a big exit on their last big year, and it doesn't really work that way. You still need to put some weight into the previous historical financials. Business acquisition lending for SMB’s are not based on what the company could do but, based on what they did do.