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For small business loans with bad credit, you have several options: your local bank and/or mortgage brokers. Some local banks specialize in business loans that they keep in-house. These loans generally carry higher rates and larger down payment requirements, though your local banker might be willing to take a more hands-off approach to your credit history.

Your neighborhood mortgage brokers specialize in making loans to people with bad credit. You can expect the interest rates to be higher and down payments needed up to 25 percent to 50 percent; however, those with bankruptcies and the worst credit will be eligible. It will all depend on how your credit looks–some loans may only be a bit worse than those offered by the banks.

Small Business Loans With Bad Credit: Bankruptcy and Credit Repair
If you are applying for small business loans with bad credit, and have had a recent run-in with bankruptcy, you can still be approved. Though bankruptcy stays on your business credit reports for seven to 10 years, most consumer debt drops off the report after seven. Thus, once you have received financing, its important to keep up to speed with your payments, in order to repair your firms business credit.

It might surprise you, but some banks prefer to see an old bankruptcy rather than old unpaid charge offs. Old unpaid charge offs mean you still owe the money and creditors may force you to pay them rather than the new creditor considering your request. Unpaid charge offs also indicate an unwillingness to deal with ones debt. Bankruptcy can be bad, but at least it shows that you have dealt with the debt.