Why is it so hard to get borrowers to do environmental?
We work with lenders as our primary clients and often within their small business lending area. Our primary role is to help our lender clients manage the environmental process by conducting reviews of...
View ArticleWhy Purchasing Commercial Real Estate with Cash or Seller Financing Can be...
While buying commercial real estate and other property without using a bank or credit union to finance it seems like a great deal, we have been seeing repeated examples of where it can come back and...
View ArticleNew Changes to SBA Environmental Guidance Now in Effect
The Small Business Administration (SBA) recently released an update to its Standard Operating Procedure (SOP 50 10 5 (J)), affecting all CDC/504 and 7(a) commercial loans. Version J is the tenth update...
View ArticleTechnology + Expertise is the Recipe for Successful Environmental Risk...
Environmental due diligence is a critical component of the commercial lending process. Although often obscured among the profusion of punch-list tasks required to move a deal from initial request to...
View ArticleWhat’s New in Environmental Regulations?
In our February article, I wrote about the recent updates to the Small Business Administration’s Standard Operating Procedures, which affect all CDC/504 and 7(a) commercial lenders. But the SBA isn’t...
View Article5 Top Environmental Remediation Problems, and How to Fix Them
Commercial real estate (CRE) lending is a risky business. Environmental contamination is one potential pitfall lenders must consider as part of a balanced and comprehensive risk management strategy....
View ArticleMusings of a Former EBA Board Member
Earlier this year, I completed my three-plus year term as an Affiliate Member of the Board of Governors of the Environmental Bankers Association (EBA). I am honored to have been chosen as one of two...
View ArticleWhy Outsource Your Property Risk Program?
I get asked this all the time: “Why should I consider outsourcing my environmental and appraisal risk management to a third-party firm like yours? Wouldn’t it be less expensive and less risky to keep...
View ArticleCan Today’s Risk Management Programs Deal With Climate Change?
This past year has been a tough one in several areas of the country. The devastating impacts of Hurricanes Florence and Michael are still being felt in Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Virginia,...
View ArticleSBA Rolls Out Environmental Guidance Changes
Just 15 months after implementing its last round of changes to its Standard Operating Procedure (SOP 50 10 5), the Small Business Administration (SBA) is at it again. Version K represents the SBA’s...
View ArticleWhy is it so hard to get borrowers to do environmental?
We work with lenders as our primary clients and often within their small business lending area. Our primary role is to help our lender clients manage the environmental process by conducting reviews of...
View ArticleWhy Purchasing Commercial Real Estate with Cash or Seller Financing Can be...
While buying commercial real estate and other property without using a bank or credit union to finance it seems like a great deal, we have been seeing repeated examples of where it can come back and...
View ArticleNew Changes to SBA Environmental Guidance Now in Effect
The Small Business Administration (SBA) recently released an update to its Standard Operating Procedure (SOP 50 10 5 (J)), affecting all CDC/504 and 7(a) commercial loans. Version J is the tenth update...
View ArticleTechnology + Expertise is the Recipe for Successful Environmental Risk...
Environmental due diligence is a critical component of the commercial lending process. Although often obscured among the profusion of punch-list tasks required to move a deal from initial request to...
View ArticleWhat’s New in Environmental Regulations?
In our February article, I wrote about the recent updates to the Small Business Administration’s Standard Operating Procedures, which affect all CDC/504 and 7(a) commercial lenders. But the SBA isn’t...
View Article5 Top Environmental Remediation Problems, and How to Fix Them
Commercial real estate (CRE) lending is a risky business. Environmental contamination is one potential pitfall lenders must consider as part of a balanced and comprehensive risk management strategy....
View ArticleMusings of a Former EBA Board Member
Earlier this year, I completed my three-plus year term as an Affiliate Member of the Board of Governors of the Environmental Bankers Association (EBA). I am honored to have been chosen as one of two...
View ArticleWhy Outsource Your Property Risk Program?
I get asked this all the time: “Why should I consider outsourcing my environmental and appraisal risk management to a third-party firm like yours? Wouldn’t it be less expensive and less risky to keep...
View ArticleCan Today’s Risk Management Programs Deal With Climate Change?
This past year has been a tough one in several areas of the country. The devastating impacts of Hurricanes Florence and Michael are still being felt in Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Virginia,...
View ArticleSBA Rolls Out Environmental Guidance Changes
Just 15 months after implementing its last round of changes to its Standard Operating Procedure (SOP 50 10 5), the Small Business Administration (SBA) is at it again. Version K represents the SBA’s...
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