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Scenerio: an independant business owner (LCC) operates with a license and makes decent money but she has 97K in debt. A work vehicle thats 60K and the rest is personal loans and credit cards. EVERY card she has is 25% APR (no interest on the personal loans).
That vehicle is 1200 a month! We are currently looking at getting quotes from carvana to get rid of it (low miles, new model).
But she has never used her LLC to open up a line of credit or a loan.
Right now there are strategies in place for the cards, the vehicle and debt floor. My question here is focused on the LLC as a line of credit, as a last resort.
2 year business owner/operator
700 credit score.
In reality, an LLC by itself doesn’t necessarily open the door to independent borrowing. For the vast majority of small businesses, virtually every major lender will still require a personal guarantee and base the decision largely on the owner’s personal credit profile. In other words, the LLC doesn’t really shield the owner from the obligation. In addition, if you've been using personal loans and cards for business expenses this also puts the legal personal protections of an LLC in jeopardy as it provides avenues to pierce the corporate veil.
The $1,200 vehicle payment seems like it would be the largest fixed expense in the scenario. Reducing that obligation may provide more immediate relief than opening additional credit.
Aside from predatory loan companies that will give you money with no personal guarantee, or even no credit check. The trade off is that they base what they'll loan you on your last 6 months bank statements for example. All of them charge outrageous interest rates or fees, far worse than you're paying now. They'll also require your bank account to be connected where they can automatically withdraw the payment due on the loan.... every week... without any input from you.