If you are an entrepreneur, don’t be hopeless when your personal credit score is less than 600, you can still have chance to get credit for your business. It is not easy to do and need your patience to work on it. But it is doable. You need to start building business credit score.
Step 1: Obtain a tax ID number for your business, and make legal entity as corporation.
This is the first step to separate your business and your personal assets and liabilities. This is part of the corporate credit concepts
Step 2: Sign up to at least three credit bureaus; Experian, Dun & Bradstreet and Equifax
Now you have a new credit history under your company tax ID, not your social security number
Step 3: Find qualified vendors and get credit lines from them. Start with a small limit and be prompt to the terms, and get bigger limit afterwards.
Vendors’ credit will be a good base for you to build your corporate rating.
Step 4: Make sure that your credit lines in the qualified vendors is reported to the credit rating companies
These four steps look easy, but you need to have high commitment to build your business credit rating. When you personal credit rating is bad, your company rating is the only way you have. Once you have good ratings (around 80) you can try to propose for corporate credit to lenders.
When the lenders check your personal credit rating is not good enough, they might put conditions such as collateral from your company. If you think you can fulfill their requirement, and you finally get the cash from corporate credit. Just make sure to keep good credit history with your first corporate credit because good rating will slowly open more and more credit opportunity for you, such as: business credit line.
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