ThinkSBA: Lender Fit
The Fit
Broker. A multi-lender SBA brokerage covering acquisitions, partner buyouts, and deals with real estate components, shopping your file to several banks at once.
At a Glance
- Type
- Broker (shops your deal)
- Footprint
- Nationwide.
- Deal Size
- under $500k to $5M.
- Searcher Practice
- A general SBA lending desk, handled remotely.
- Published Terms
- Acquisitions $250k to $5M, plus partner buyouts and franchises.
The Full Review
ThinkSBA is reviewed in full in the directory, with its model, the searcher case for and against it, and every source: read the ThinkSBA review.
How to Approach
ThinkSBA is a broker, so this is how that kind of lender comes in, what it weighs, and how to arrive ready.
The Typical Arc
- A conversation about your deal before any bank sees it.
- The broker packages the file and shops it across its lender network.
- Competing term sheets, then closing with the bank that fits.
What It Weighs
- The same credit fundamentals a bank weighs, packaged to show best.
- Whether the deal is financeable at all, before you spend weeks on it.
- Which lender in the network fits the deal's shape.
How to Prepare
- Know your own coverage math before the first call. SBA Acquisition Calculator
- Underwrite the deal so you can speak to it. Underwrite a Deal
- Compare the offers the broker brings back. Loan Terms Worksheet
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