Updated: March 30, 2022 | By: LendVer Staff – SBA is an acronym for the Small Business Administration which is a government agency that guarantees small business loans. A common misconception is that the SBA actually makes loans to businesses directly, when really it is independent bank and non-bank lenders as well as CDCs (Certified [...]

Updated: March 30, 2022 | By: LendVer Staff – Congratulations on starting your business or choosing to start a business, it can be a rewarding and exciting adventure but it is not for the faint of heart. Don’t despair, there are over 31 million small business owners in America so although the road ahead may [...]

September, 1 2020 | By: LendVer Staff – The start of the COVID-19 pandemic saw investment property lenders quickly constrict lending guidelines, and then most ceased funding altogether. Hard-money lenders remained active, providing much needed capital to real estate investors, but at much lower leverage, and much higher rates than before the pandemic. Watching from [...]

June 11, 2020 | By: LendVer Staff – One of the first financing types kicked to the sidelines by lenders when the economy started sliding, was long-term residential rental property loans. It’s a difficult proposition for a lender to commit capital for an extended period of time at a fixed interest rate, when there is [...]

April 9, 2020 | By: LendVer Staff – The Government and the lending community have been desperately scrambling to get disaster relief loan funds into small business owners hands under the newly minted Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). At the same time, commercial and investment residential real estate lenders are closing their doors, and locking up [...]