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Insider discussion regarding commercial real estate loan financing and commercial mortgage indicators. |
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| An Unsecured Commercial Loan Versus A Secured Commercial Loan |
| There are two types of commercial loans that you can get as a business. The first is a secured commercial loan, and the second is an unsecured commercial loan. A secured commercial loan is a loan that you get with collateral, and therefore is a much easier loan to get as a result. If you have less than excellent credit, you can put your business equipment, mortgage and other items up for collateral and the bank or lender will be more apt to provide you with funding. The reason for this is that they know they can get back their money with the collateral by selling it, so the risk is much lower. An unsecured commercial loan is one that is not backed by collateral. It is much harder to get and it is based only on the credit rating of yourself and your company. As a result, you are in danger of higher interest rates if you go for an unsecured commercial loan with credit that is not perfect. In contrast to the higher risk that is put on by the lender, the borrower has lower risk associated with a unsecured commercial loan because if they do not pay back the loan, the only damage is to their credit rating, and even that can be repaired with time. An excellent way to illustrate the difference between a commercial secured loan and an unsecured commercial loan is with an example. If you have a friend, and you borrow money from them and they ask for collateral of your television, then you know that if you don’t pay them back, you lose your television. Your friend has the assurance that even if you don’t pay back the loan, they still get a new television. However, if you borrow from a friend and they don’t ask for collateral, then when you don’t pay back the loan you are out no money (but may have lost a friend). Typically, an unsecured commercial loan will leave the business responsible for repaying the loan, but there will be a personal guarantee from the owner of the business that there will be a repayment of the loan per the commercial loan terms. An unsecured commercial business loan is better for a business if they have good credit, but bad for the lender if the business does not pay back the loan. Unless you have perfect credit, you should not try and get an unsecured commercial loan because the interest rates may cause you to default on it down the road. |