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30 January 2025 | 8 replies
Most businesses, property management or not, fail due to the lack of sales, not due to the lack of systems and phone etiquette.
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5 February 2025 | 16 replies
Most importantly, understand the difference between a business purpose and consumer purpose loan.Read my post in this thread, which details our process in actionable terms.
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30 January 2025 | 7 replies
They have been managing fine, although not too busy, I guess because of the market.
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11 February 2025 | 1 reply
My business profile is showing only 16 reviews on the count however when I manually count my reviews I have 26.
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3 February 2025 | 31 replies
I define small business owners as people who employ w2 employees.
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8 February 2025 | 2 replies
There are always opportunities in buying real estate, businesses, companies, etc., as long as you know (or think you know) what you are in for.
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8 February 2025 | 6 replies
"owned outright"- do the members have personal debt to support this, or is it both zero for personal and for the business?
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5 February 2025 | 16 replies
For an SBA hotel loan, the SBA may guarantee say 30% of the loan and a traditional bank takes the next 50%...total LTV/LTC of 80%...will vary by business but it's higher/better than the previous replies (otherwise, you would just get a traditional commercial loan without the SBA involved).
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5 February 2025 | 0 replies
As small businesses, securing funding can be a real challenge.
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9 February 2025 | 32 replies
I've been in the CRM business for years and real estate investor since 2003.