Hey Guys,
I am a co-founder of a co-working space in Sydney and after investing all my available funds to start and expand the business over the last 4 years we are now looking for help with securing outside funding through ANZ to facilitate new expansion.
For those that are not familiar co-working is the fastest growing sub-sector of commercial office space in Australia (& Europe & USA), where office space is offered for an all inclusive price and is available to companies between 1 to 100 people in size. A good article that explains the benefits here.
The help I need is that banks are hesitant to lend $300,000 we need to expand as an unsecured loan, but they have verbally indicated that with our great financial history and a property to secure against the loan they would approve our application within a week.
Therefore I am looking for a smart investor that would be happy to earn a return for securing their property with my business loan application. The rate can be negotiable but I have been thinking 5% – 8% pa on the equity secured against would be a fair return.
For serious inquiries I have all the relevant business documents and forecasts needed to do an in-depth due diligence prior to making a commitment, and when we come to an agreement I will ensure that we have a formal legal document that protects both our interests.
If you could please email me a brief history of yourself and your assets along with contact details so we can discuss it further, if you have any questions please post them below.
Carl
[email protected]PS: If this opportunity is not something you can help with but you know someone who would, I would be happy to pay $2000 as a finders fee for a successful referral.
5-8% for an unsecured business loan for a business which can’t get lending through traditional lenders is quite fanciful.
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This reply was modified 8 years, 12 months ago by
Corey Batt.
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As Corey mentioned, securing a loan at the rate you are hoping for is unrealistic. Even with a secured loan where property is offered as security (which you are not offering), the absolute best you could hope for is more like 1% per month.
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That seems a bit steep. Unsecured loans are around 15% and secured loans are around 7-8% with ANZ.
If what your saying is the accepted norm then that would make repayments (8% bank + 12% investor returns) around 20% p.a. or around a $3000/month kickback to the investor, is that correct?
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This reply was modified 8 years, 12 months ago by carlrsullivan.
Incorrect. I made no mention of bank involvement. Investors will sometimes do the loan by themselves. As I said, on loan where the investor is lending against a security asset (ie property) you would expect to pay a bare minimum of 1% per month, payable to the investor. This has nothing to do with a bank.
You may think it sounds steep but it is important to compare apples with apples. There is no point comparing against bank rates if banks have declined to be involved.
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Good luck getting an unsecured loan of 300K at 15% per annum.
As Jacqui has mentioned we are getting upto 3% fully secured by residential property at say a 65% lvr so your rate is cloud cuckoo land.
Cheers
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Richard Taylor | Australia's leading private lender
Another issue is whether a bank would be willing to lend you by securing an unrelated party’s property.
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The summary of the deal is : hand over $300k or a property with $300k equity in it to you, for just 5-8% return on the $300k. I can’t understand why you think that is a fair rate of return that will attract a “smart investor”.
Jacqui Middleton | Middleton Buyers Advocates
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Ok point taken, so what do you feel would be a fair return?
Personally no level return would make me interested if it is unsecured but i guess everyone is different.
Cheers
Yours in Finance
Richard Taylor | Australia's leading private lender
As a silent investor nobody with any brains would touch it with a barge pole. You would probably have better luck convincing someone of the merits of your business plan, and convince them to come in as a business partner that will share profits.
Jacqui Middleton | Middleton Buyers Advocates
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As a silent investor nobody with any brains would touch it with a barge pole. You would probably have better luck convincing someone of the merits of your business plan, and convince them to come in as a business partner that will share profits.
I would agree with this. I just lent a business 65K but it was secured against the business, the stock (including some very sellable big ticket items worth more than the capital) and a personal guarantee – 8% and I did it to help out as it is a lousy return. I see that as almost a gift with break even to make it just barely worth doing as a favour and not getting robbed for it. I would get a much better return in leveraged real estate but I want to build a relationship with the owner as I like the way he thinks. My point is I agree the interest rate proposed by the OP is too low without security.
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