Illinois USA Business owner looking to purchase the Strip Mall that her store had been in for 5 years looked to her bank to get a Commercial Mortgage for the purchase. The sales of the Boutique had been a bit sluggish for a couple of years now due to the recession.
To make matters a bit worse, because of the reduced sales in the Boutique, the owner of the company had been a little late on a couple department store credit cards. Due to the combination of the late payments and reduced sales the bank was not interested in taking the credit risk.
Her credit was not bad mind you, just a few late payments to a couple of department stores for minimal amounts.
The owner of the Boutique shopped around at a few local banks and the result was the same.
About to give up the owner of the Boutique went online to see what options were there for her. Fortunately she came across a Professional Commercial Finance Broker who had several options for her ranging from short term interest only balloon mortgages to long term generic mortgages requiring payments towards the principle as well as the interest accumulation.
If you are looking for an Investment Property Mortgage, and even if you do get approved for bank financing, do your self a favor and speak to a Professional Commercial Mortgage Broker and investigate your options.
There are many different lending programs and while many Commercial Lenders have disappeared over the last couple of years, the ones that are remaining are the ones that have been able to weather the economic storm so far.
Now with the many different nuances of our current economic market make purchasing a Commercial Property a great opportunity. You will not see a better time than now for a very long time, reduced Commercial Property values and historically low interest rates. Opportunity is definitely knocking.