The New Restrictions for Getting Bank Loans
In the past two years, getting a business loan has become a lot more time consuming and difficult. The difficulty in getting a business loan today is directly related to the recent real estate decline and the current economy. As the real estate market began declining several years ago, a large number of banks and mortgage companies incurred millions of dollars in losses. The majority of these losses were primarily from short sales, foreclosures and investor loan defaults. In order to avoid getting in this financial situation again, most banks today have implemented much stricter loan guidelines and lending laws. This even includes stricter laws and guidelines in regards to lines of credit and business loans. Some of these new guidelines include requiring that all business loan applicants be in business for at least seven years, have a limited amount of liabilities, and also have an even debt to income ratio balance.