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Commercial Real Estate Investment Property and Business Financing

This real estate and business financing article discusses a concept which is referred to here as "Thinking Outside the Bank". It is meant to be a variation of the well-known "thinking outside the box". Despite the prominence of traditional banks, they are not the only viable source which should be considered for a commercial mortgage or commercial loan. There are many reasons why a commercial borrower might not go to a traditional bank for a commercial real estate loan or other business finance circumstances.

Business borrowers have more commercial mortgage and commercial loan alternatives than they realize. As noted above, I refer to these business financing alternatives as "Thinking Outside the Bank" because a typical commercial borrower probably believes that a bank is the best source for a business loan in business investing situations. Non-traditional business lenders are usually viewed as having the competitive edge for many common commercial financing and commercial real estate investment property financing scenarios.

In some cases a traditional bank will offer to provide a business loan but will attach excessively stringent terms and covenants. In other cases a traditional bank will decline the commercial mortgage outright, perhaps because they do not even provide business financing to the commercial borrower's particular industry. In either case, the commercial borrower is likely to benefit by "Thinking Outside the Bank