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What to Expect When Getting Commercial Construction Financing

Understanding the process for financing commercial property can be confusing as there are several financing options available. Additionally, financing for commercial property is some of the toughest financing to get because there isn’t existing cash flow to prove the loan can and will be paid back. Although each lender has individual requirements for commercial construction loans, here’s what you can expect when seeking commercial construction financing.

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Links Financial’s Guide To Commercial Real Estate Financing

Owning commercial real estate can be rewarding, but it doesn’t take long to realize that the world of commercial property finance can be confusing. The following information will help you find the money to fund your investment. Continue Reading…

What Is Seller Financing?

Whether you’re a business owner looking to sell your firm or a budding entrepreneur looking to acquire a business, the common denominator to a successful transaction is having the financial capital necessary to accomplish the deal. Seller financing plays a role in more than 50 percent of mid-size business sales and nearly 90 percent of small-business transactions. Seller financing, often called owner financing, is an attractive option for buyers and sellers. Continue Reading…

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Restructure Before It’s Necessary

If Necessity is the Mother of Invention Then is Success the Mother of Complacency?

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Links Financial Secures Real Estate Development Financing

Links Financial has played a behind-the-scenes role in many Florida real estate deals, both large and small. President Penny Parks  has extensive experience working with real estate developers and securing commercial real estate financing. Their familiarity with real estate loans and connections in the industry recently gave the firm and its client, Mosaic, a needed advantage in securing construction financing for The Forum, a multi-family development project in Ft Myers, FL, that broke ground in August 2016.

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How to Finance the Purchase of a Business

finance-business-purchaseAcquiring an existing business is usually less risky than starting your own and is a quick way to enter the business world. For other entrepreneurs, buying a business represents a stable way to expand an existing business or increase market share. Either way, most buyers will need a business purchase loan to complete the transaction.

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Links Financial Celebrates 10 Years Serving Tampa Bay

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This month, Links Financial celebrates 10 years in business! Over the past decade, our financial firm has focused on helping businesses owners and commercial real estate investors/developers in the Tampa Bay area grow their companies and achieve their dreams.

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Partnership Buyouts

Business partnerships come to an end for a number of reasons.  Sometimes there is a different perspective of the company growth goals, or one partner is at a different life stage, or one partner wants to sell and the other wants to keep the business operating as it is.  In any case, when it’s time to buy out your business partner there a number financial intricacies that must be handled well if you are to achieve a successful business partnership buyout.

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8th Annual CREW Summit

2016 CREW Summit Tampa FL

CREW Tampa Bay’s 8th Annual Summit was a huge success! Continue Reading…

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Increasing Small Business Cash Flow Through Debt Financing

At Links Financial, we always aim to help our clients gain or maintain ownership of their business. This is one of our firm’s the differentiating factors. When a client recently came to us in need of capital, we did exactly that.

Late last year, a client approached Links Financial in search of an investor. The client’s company had been in business for 20 years selling a unique and effective patented product. While the company was well-established and its product had received several celebrity endorsements, it had a very limited cash flow available for marketing and product development. Our client wanted to increase brand awareness and to pursue new projects in 2016, but lacked the financing needed to go after either goal.

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