Financing Options

We know that it can be difficult to find your perfect business. After you do where do you find the money to buy it? Business buyers need to have some funds to offer as a down payment in order to acquire a business. To help you with this delemma, we work with motivated buyers in a variety of ways to help you tap into all available resources to finance your dream business. Below are some examples:

• Cash equivalents (checking and savings accounts; money market funds)
• Stocks and bonds
• Certificates of deposit
• Gifts/ loans from friends and family
• Second mortgages and other real estate loans
• Seller financing
• Credit card financing

• SBA financing/ bank loans/ bank lines of credit
• Retirement accounts (IRAs, 401Ks, SEPS, pensions, etc.)
• Borrowing against a different existing business (lines of credit, accounts receivable factoring, inventory financing, equipment financing)
• Asset sales (real estate, autos, etc.)

• Customer and supplier financing
• Venture capital
• Small business investment companies
• Private placement
• Convertible debt financing