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The SBA rulebook changed three times in the last 12 months.Most people in this industry are still working off last year'...
06/17/2026

The SBA rulebook changed three times in the last 12 months.

Most people in this industry are still working off last year's assumptions.

Policy updates, SOP revisions, lender guideline shifts, they don't announce themselves loudly.

They show up quietly in a declined file or a restructured deal that didn't need to be restructured.

Staying current isn't optional in this business.

It's the baseline requirement for giving clients accurate guidance.

At OSBC, ongoing education isn't a checkbox.

It's how we make sure the advice we give today reflects how deals actually get approved today, not how they got approved two years ago.

The rules change. The team has to change with them.

That's what clients are actually paying for when they hire an advisor.

Most people celebrating the new $10M SBA limit don't fully understand what changed.On May 18, the SBA announced eligible...
06/11/2026

Most people celebrating the new $10M SBA limit don't fully understand what changed.

On May 18, the SBA announced eligible borrowers can now combine 7(a) and 504 financing up to $10 million in total SBA-backed debt.

Old ceiling was $5 million.

Why it matters:

The old cap quietly killed deals, acquisitions with goodwill and real estate, expansions needing both equipment and working capital.

$5M combined forced borrowers into conventional financing. Shorter terms. Higher equity requirements. Worse outcomes.

The $6M–$9M range now has a cleaner SBA path than it did last month.

What it doesn't change:

Underwriting behavior.

Lenders still want strong DSCR, clean returns, and documented cash flow. Only 6.8% of SBA borrowers ever exceeded $2M to begin with.

A higher ceiling doesn't move a weak deal forward.

Deals structured around the old cap deserve a second look.

The opportunity isn't in the announcement, it's in the conversation that follows it.

Restaurant acquisitions are process-heavy, document-intensive, and unforgiving of inexperience.Frankie knew he wanted to...
06/10/2026

Restaurant acquisitions are process-heavy, document-intensive, and unforgiving of inexperience.

Frankie knew he wanted to own a restaurant. He didn't know what that process actually required.

By his own words, he needed help he didn't even know he needed.

Wok Chow was the deal. A first-time buyer. Goodwill-heavy transaction. SBA financing.

These deals have real friction points, seller documentation, cash flow verification, lender timelines that slip without warning.

For someone who has never been through it, every delay feels like the deal is dying.

Sometimes it is. Sometimes it isn't. The difference is knowing which one you're in.

Frankie described wanting to give up. Walls. Delays. Moments of real doubt.

Lori checked on him daily. Stayed honest. Never left him in limbo.

What started as a transaction became a real partnership.

He closed. Wok Chow is his.

He wrote about this experience from inside his own restaurant.

First-time buyers don't lose deals because they lack motivation.

They lose them because nobody explained what was actually happening, and why.

This one didn’t move forward on first pass.Not because of the business.Because the file didn’t initially make sense the ...
06/08/2026

This one didn’t move forward on first pass.

Not because of the business.

Because the file didn’t initially make sense the way SBA underwriting needed it to.

A $4.21M SBA 7(a) refinance tied to a prior acquisition of an online business coaching company in Baltimore, Maryland.

The transaction itself included goodwill, customer list, website domains, closing costs, and working capital.

But once it hit underwriting, things slowed down.

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What made this deal difficult wasn’t a single issue.

It was how the profile came together on paper.

Cash flow wasn’t showing consistent enough coverage on first review.
Credit added an extra layer of caution in how risk was being weighed.
And the original acquisition structure didn’t translate cleanly into a refinance context.

Nothing was extreme.

But nothing was fully aligned either.

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Our involvement here was advisory as the file moved through that friction point.

The work centered around simplifying how the repayment story was being presented—not changing the business, but reducing the interpretation load on the lender side.

Less emphasis on assumptions.
More clarity on actual repayment behavior.
A cleaner connection between cash flow and structure.

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Once that shifted, the tone of the file changed.

It didn’t feel like multiple moving parts anymore.

It felt like one coherent repayment picture.

The deal ultimately closed at $4.21M under SBA 7(a).

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The takeaway is pretty consistent across refinances like this.

Deals don’t usually stall because of one obvious weakness.

They stall when the story the numbers tell takes too long to understand.

You can usually tell how a file is going to go within the first few minutes of opening it.Not because of what’s missing....
06/05/2026

You can usually tell how a file is going to go within the first few minutes of opening it.

Not because of what’s missing.

But because of how it reads.

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Most people assume lenders are scanning for red flags first.

They’re not.

They’re trying to understand the story the numbers are telling.

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Where things break down isn’t documentation.

It’s interpretation.

Cash flow that needs too much explanation.
Structure that isn’t immediately clear.
Risk factors that don’t connect cleanly.

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None of these are deal killers on their own.

But they slow the file down before it ever gets real momentum.

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The strongest submissions don’t just have the right pieces.

They read clean.

So the lender isn’t trying to figure out the deal.

They’re deciding how to move it forward.

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That shift happens early.

Usually within the first pass.

Most SBA declines don’t happen at the point people think they do.They happen earlier.Before underwriting ever fully enga...
06/04/2026

Most SBA declines don’t happen at the point people think they do.

They happen earlier.

Before underwriting ever fully engages with the file.

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By the time a lender is reviewing a submission in detail, the direction of the deal is often already influenced.

Not by intent.

But by how the file presents itself at first pass.

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What tends to get overlooked is how quickly lenders form an initial read.

Not on the business itself.

But on how easily the structure can be interpreted under standard SBA guidelines.

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If the cash flow requires multiple layers of explanation…

If the repayment picture isn’t immediately clear…

If the structure introduces more questions than answers at first review…

The file starts to lose momentum.

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This isn’t about strength or weakness in the business.

It’s about how efficiently the deal translates into a lending decision environment.

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At OSBC, this is something we see consistently across SBA submissions.

The difference between approval and decline is rarely one major issue.

It’s often how the file is initially received and how much friction exists before underwriting even begins its deeper review.

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And in most cases, that early read is what shapes everything that follows.

Liquidity hasn’t disappeared.But confidence in where to deploy it has shifted.---From the outside, it looks like capital...
06/03/2026

Liquidity hasn’t disappeared.

But confidence in where to deploy it has shifted.

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From the outside, it looks like capital is tightening.

Fewer approvals.
Longer timelines.
More friction in deals.

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But inside the market, that’s not what’s actually happening.

Capital is still there.

Banks are lending.
SBA programs are active.
Private credit hasn’t stepped back.

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What’s changed is deployment behavior.

Lenders are spending more time deciding where capital goes and where it doesn’t.

Not because they have less to deploy.

Because they’re more selective about how it gets deployed.

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That’s why the same deal today can feel harder to place than it did 12–18 months ago.

Not worse.

Just interpreted differently.

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And that shift is where most of the market disconnect is happening right now.

Down payment isn’t just capital.It’s a signal.Of liquidity.Of commitment.Of how much pressure the deal can actually abso...
06/03/2026

Down payment isn’t just capital.

It’s a signal.

Of liquidity.
Of commitment.
Of how much pressure the deal can actually absorb.

Underwriting reads it before anything else.

And a weak signal changes the entire conversation.

A $2.625M SBA 7(a) loan was structured for the acquisition of five residential care facilities, including real estate, F...
06/01/2026

A $2.625M SBA 7(a) loan was structured for the acquisition of five residential care facilities, including real estate, FF&E, inventory, closing costs, and working capital.

The business fundamentals were strong.

The friction came from structure.

Multiple facilities under one transaction created complexity around cash flow allocation, repayment interpretation, and portfolio risk.

OSBC stepped in to simplify the narrative, clarify repayment strength across all five facilities, and align the file for underwriting review.

Once the structure was clearly presented, the deal moved forward and closed at $2.625M.

In multi-asset SBA transactions, complexity is expected.

Clarity is what keeps deals moving.

You can usually hear it in how a deal gets described.“It’s basically approved.”“Just waiting on final sign-off.”And then...
05/29/2026

You can usually hear it in how a deal gets described.

“It’s basically approved.”
“Just waiting on final sign-off.”

And then it goes back into underwriting.

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This happens more often than most brokers expect.

Not because something new went wrong.

But because something wasn’t fully aligned the first time.

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“Almost approved” usually means the deal worked under one set of assumptions…

But didn’t hold once those assumptions were adjusted.

Cash flow gets recalculated.
Structure gets stress-tested.
Risk gets evaluated as a whole.

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What looks workable at a high level can read very differently under underwriting.

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The deals that don’t restart aren’t perfect.

They’re aligned early.

So underwriting confirms the structure instead of reworking it.

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It’s a small shift.

But it’s usually what separates momentum from a reset.

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