What Is Collateral?

Collateral Defined When applying for a loan, businesses have several different financing options. In almost every circumstance from real-property/equity and asset-based loans, to equipment loans, and even in factoring, the lender will require some sort of collateral....

Financing With Assets

As so many businesses are discovering, obtaining financing through traditional means can be difficult. Many lenders have added tight restrictions and high standards to their lending process. Since the standards have been raised pertaining to credit scores and history,...

Lending Hard Cash

Alternative financing is a way of creating financial solutions for businesses who have run out of options. There are many ways alternative financing can be secured – there’s a solution for almost every situation. There are many terms you might read about in...

What Is a Line of Credit?

The nature of money in business is that is it very fluid. It comes and goes at a fast pace that can be hard to keep track of. Cash flow issues are common for business owners; you aren’t the only one! Because money doesn’t come in at the same rate it goes out,...

IRS Penalties & Your Business

A few years ago, we wrote an article for the Vancouver Business Journal on how alternative financing can help with IRS penalties. If you weren’t looking for help then, perhaps this will speak to you now. While most of us are still working on collecting our tax...