Cooleemee, North Carolina Business Loan

Local Cooleemee Lending Resources

Without further adieu, here's our list of small business banks in Cooleemee.

Lenders for Cooleemee Businesses

This is a list of banks outside of Cooleemee, North Carolina that have provided SBA loans to Cooleemee businesses. Some of these may be national banks with local branch locations.

Cooleemee Business Loan Advice

As a prerequisite to contacting banks to discuss getting a bank loan, you will need to determine exactly what size loan you will be asking for.

You need to be able to clearly introduce your business to the banker, explain how much you want to borrow, define how the money will be used, and show how you intend to to pay the money back to the bank.

Being able to present a well-written business plan is essential. If the bank loan is to for an existing business, you should also have financial statements covering the last three years. Bankers will also want to know what collateral you have available to secure the loan. Collateral is relevant because banks always want to be prepared for a worst-case scenario in which cash flow from the business does not meet your projections.

If the business has few assets, the bank may ask you to to pledge your personal assets, such as stocks and bonds that you might own or life insurance policies. The banks will check on your personal credit history in any case, so hopefully you have good credit history -- you may want to get a copy of your credit history prior to meeting with the banker.

Many of the banks in our list participate in the financial assistance programs available through the SBA. Before meeting with the banker, you may want to do your homework on SBA loans programs to see if you qualify. SBA 7(a) loans, SBA 504 loans and SBA disaster assistance loans may be available to you.

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