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Business Loan Finance: How to Get Approved

June 17, 2009 By Marco Carbajo

Business CreditLending institutions want to lend money because it’s the way they make money. However, they only want to lend money to a borrower who is able to repay the loan on time and in full.

When lending small amounts of money under $50,000 typically the qualification depends solely on personal and business credit scores. Depending on the personal and business credit scores, they either will or will not approve the loan.

When deciding to extend credit to a business lenders use the ‘Four Factors for Lending Approval’:

Capacity

Collateral

Conditions

Character

Each of these areas helps the lender to determine the overall risk of the loan. While each of the C’s is reviewed, none of them on their own will prevent or guarantee access to financing. There are really no automatic formulas or guaranteed percentages that are used with the Five C’s. They are only a variety of factors lenders use to evaluate and decide how much of a risk the potential borrower is.

Let’s cover these 4 Factors in greater detail.

Capacity

This is an evaluation of your ability to repay the loan. Capacity is evaluated by several components including cash flow, payment history, and additional cash sources. The best way to show your capacity is with a strong business credit profile, a strong bank rating (typically a low 5), a well designed business plan and/or prior year(s) financials that show you can produce enough cash to repay the loan.

If your loan is under $50k most banks will grant an approval if you have a strong business credit rating, a favorable personal credit score, and a low 5 bank rating.

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Collateral

Heavy machinery, inventory, equipment, stocks and bonds, and other expensive business assets that can be sold if a borrower fails to repay the loan are considered collateral. One of the easiest ways to obtain a business loan for building business credit and bank credit is using the CD-Secured loan strategy.

*There are specific banks that do these types of loans that can allow you to grow your access to capital at a much faster rate.

Conditions

Be prepared to prove that the conditions are right for your business. Make sure there’s a market, an industry, positioning, competitiveness, and experience to back up your plan.

Character

Lenders have to believe that a business owner is a reliable individual who can be depended on to repay the loan. Some areas they look into include personal credit history, education, and work experience.

When applying for a small business loan, don’t forget the importance of personal relationships. Apply for a loan at a bank where you already have a positive business relationship. Also, make an attempt to meet with the person who will be evaluating your application, such as a bank’s lending officer, rather than the teller who handles your day-to-day banking transactions.

If you want to succeed in getting a loan, be sure to also check out Elements of a Successful Small Business Loan Application.

*Gain access to my private list of banks that do CD-Secured loans when you join our business credit building system.

Remember – To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business. ~ J. Paul Getty

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About the Author

 Marco Carbajo                                                                                                

Marco Carbajo is a business credit expert, author, speaker, and founder of the Business Credit Insiders Circle. He is a business credit blogger for Dun and Bradstreet Credibility Corp, the SBA.gov Community, Business.com, About.com and All Business.com. His articles and blog; Business Credit Blogger.com, have been featured in ‘Fox Small Business’,’American Express Small Business’, ‘Business Week’, ‘The Washington Post’, ‘The New York Times’, ‘The San Francisco Tribune’,‘Alltop’, and ‘Entrepreneur Connect’.

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Is You’re Credit Card Company Using ‘Balance Chasing’

May 19, 2009 By Marco Carbajo

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As credit card profiling, credit limit reductions and interest rate hikes weren’t enough there is an even greater more dangerous tactic that creditors are using causing a snow ball like effect that’s hitting even the most pristine credit worthy consumers.

By 2010 there is an estimate that there will be $2 trillion less in credit limit availability in the marketplace or 40%.

Recently there was a video on CBS about Miriam Majors, a young woman who had her credit limits reduced because of credit card profiling and as a result the ‘balance chasing’ tactic that creditors are also using created a snow ball effect of problems for Miriam.

What is ‘balance chasing’?

If a creditor sees that another creditor has reduced your credit limits therefore increasing your debt to credit limit ratios than this is what triggers the second creditor to issue an interest rate hike.

Here’s what happened to Miriam Majors:

The Snowball Effect

  • Her credit card’s (creditor #1) credit limit was reduced by $7,000
  • Her FICO score went from 783 down to 733 (50 point reduction)
  • Her other credit card company (Bank of America #2 creditor) raised her interest rate from 7.9% to 28.99%!
  • Her monthly payment increased with creditor #2 because of the interest rate hike
  • She spent her personal time to find out why this happened with Bank of America
  • No comment from Bank of America just policy because her limits and personal credit ratings changed

Her solution:

  • She canceled her credit card account with Bank of America
  • She opened a new credit card account with her credit union

Don’t think for a minute that your 750 or 780 credit score is immune to what’s going on in the credit card industry. As you can see that one creditor that decides to reduce your credit limit can trigger a snow ball or domino like effect on your credit and finances and leave you powerless to defend it.

Miriam Majors did take action but unfortunately the damage is done and even though her credit score is within prime rate qualification the time, frustration and money it cost to her is something that will stick with her for life.

Remember –  Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.  ~ Les Brown

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To Your Success in Business and in Life!

Did This Blog Help You? If so, I would greatly appreciate if you like and shared this on Facebook and Twitter.

About the Author

Marco Carbajo

Marco Carbajo is a business credit specialist, author, speaker, and founder of the Business Credit Insiders Circle. He is a weekly columnist for Dun & Bradstreet Small Business Solutions, a business credit blogger for All Business & American Express Small Business and author of “Eight Steps to Ultimate Business Credit” and “How to Build Business Credit with No Personal Guarantee.” His articles and blogs have also been featured in Business Week, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Tribune, Scotsman Guide, Alltop, Entrepreneur Connect, and Active Rain.  

Filed Under: Business Credit Tagged With: business credit, credit card, credit card tips, Credit cards, credit education, credit tips, credithelp, creditrepair, creditreport, creditreports, creditscore, creditscoring, ficoscore, free credit card tips, free credit reports, personal credit repair, personalcredit

Top 10 Credit Score Myths

May 18, 2009 By Marco Carbajo

credit-scoreMost individuals who have made it a habit to annually check their credit reports with the three credit reporting agencies; Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion have found themselves in a state of confusion when it comes to understanding credit scores. The most commonly used credit scoring model is FICO® and the new kid on the block known as Vantage Score.

While these scores are important in obtaining credit, loans, and lower interest rates, there seems to be several credit score myths that need to be debunked.

Here are my ‘Top 10 Credit Score Myths’

Myth:  There is only one credit score.
Fact:  There are three credit scores; one from each of the aforementioned agencies.  Equifax’s credit score is called the Beacon Score, Transunion’s credit score is Empirica Score, while Experian has embraced it’s own new credit scoring system called Vantage Score.

Myth:  Your score will decrease every time you check it.
Fact:  Not true.  You can ascertain what your score is as often as you need to and it will not lower your score at all. Go to http://www.myfico.com to order your scores today.
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How to Increasing Monthly Positive Points to Increase Credit Scores

May 17, 2009 By Marco Carbajo

credit-cardYour payment history accounts for 35% of your credit score according to Fair Isaac. The most common advice you will hear from every so called “credit expert” is make your payments on time. While this is the basics of building and maintaining a good credit score let’s go way beyond that.

Each time you make a monthly payment towards your credit card balance whether on time or late your credit card issuer reports your payment to the credit reporting companies they subscribe to on a monthly basis. Every time you make a timely payment it counts as a positive point factor to your payment history. The more timely payments you make the more positive point factors that go towards your payment history therefore boosting your credit score.

There is a way to double and even triple your monthly positive point payments on one single trade line each and every month! This is done by breaking up your monthly payment to one creditor into three payments each spread over a 10 day period. For example, your minimum payment is $75 on a credit card and the due date is the 30th of each month. You would send a $27 payment for your creditor to receive on the 10th, 20th, and 30th. This would total $81 and would count towards three positive point payments to your account instead of one for that month alone. This can be done with multiple cards but be sure you are not breaking up minimum payments that are less than $75 because it really would not be worth the effort.

Your probably wondering why the extra $2 on each payment. The reason is paying more than the minimum also increases your positive point factors and increases the chances of your creditor increasing your credit limits. The more you show your ability to handle your debt the better!

Remember, by making a higher payment and increasing the amount of payments sent to your creditors the more positive action your account will report to the credit reporting agencies.

Quick Tip

This seems like a contradiction, but it really is not. Many people think that to improve their credit score, they just have to pay off some debts and close their accounts. This is not exactly accurate. There are several reasons to think carefully before closing your accounts.

First, if you close an account you need (for example, if you close all your credit card accounts) then you will have to reapply for credit, and all those inquiries from lenders will cause your credit score to actually drop.

Secondly, most credit reporting companies give high favorable points to those who have a good long-term credit history. That means that closing the credit card account you have had since college may actually hurt you in the long run. If you have credit accounts that you don’t use or if you have too many credit lines, then by all means pay off some and close them. Doing so may help your credit score – but only if you don’t close long-term accounts you need.

In general, close the most recent accounts first and only when you are sure you will not need that credit in the near future. Closing your accounts is a bad idea if:

1) You will be applying for a loan soon. The closing of your accounts will make your credit score drop in the short term and will not allow you to qualify for good loan rates.

2) Closing your accounts will make your overall debt balance too high. If you owe $10,000 now and closing some accounts would leave you with only $1,000 of possible credit, you are close to maxing out your credit which gives you a bad credit rating.

In the short term, closing accounts will lower your credit score, but in the long run it can be beneficial. Don’t make the mistake of closing lots of credit accounts just to improve your score.

Looking to build your personal and business credit? Become a member of my Business Credit Insiders Circle and gain access to a proven step-by-step business credit building system. A system that provides you access to vendor lines of credit, fleet cards, business credit cards with and without a PG, funding sources and lenders that report to all the major business credit bureaus. Submit your name and email below for details and receive a free business credit building audio seminar ($597 value) =>

About the Author

Marco Carbajo

Marco Carbajo is a business credit expert, author, speaker, and founder of the Business Credit Insiders Circle. He is a business credit blogger for AllBusiness, a subsidiary of Dun and Bradstreet and author of “Eight Steps to Ultimate Business Credit” and “How to Build Business Credit with No Personal Guarantee.” His articles and blogs have also been featured in the SBA Community, American Express Small Business, Business Week, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Tribune, Scotsman Guide, Alltop, Entrepreneur Connect, and Active Rain.

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