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Funding, Writing, Administration, Processing & Consulting Support
When
you have considered all of the sources of capital and none are attainable, then
a grant might make sense. The American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of
2009 (a/k/a, the "Stimulus Bill") provided broad categories of funding
applicable to business and these programs have been continued into 2010, 2011
and now 2012. Could your business use a grant? Have you been
searching for capital and having found no investors to support your project you
are now getting desperate and want to consider all of your options?
Additional
information on specific industries is provided as follows:
The
processing
and administration consulting services performed by Rainmaker Marketing
Corporation include:
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Development
of the transaction-specific project feasibility study. This includes:
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market feasibility study. For more information on market
feasibility studies please click
here. |
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The
revised financial feasibility analysis and pro forma financial
presentation. For more information on our financial feasibility
analysis services please click
here. |
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Development
of the business model analysis and resulting capital finance business
plan. To learn more about our financial business planning services
please click here. |
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Development
of the grant solicitation and attending PowerPoint presentation. This
is where the creative genius of Rainmaker Marketing Corporation and our
administrative partners comes into play to give your application the best
possible review that can take place under the most favorable
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Processing
time is usually in the range of 120 to 180 days, though some grants can take
longer to process - especially those for for-profit companies. Rainmaker
Marketing Corporation typically completes an initial analysis of the available
grant programs for no fee. Administration and processing advance costs are
usually no more than one percent (1.00%) of the total amount of the funding
being sought. To qualify your project for consideration, the following
threshold issues have to be satisfied (click here for a copy of
our pre-construction phase due diligence documentation checklist):
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Site
control. Site under contract or owned. |
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Zoning
Entitlements. The site has to be entitled for the intended use - there
are no exceptions. |
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Sponsor
Entity Legal/Organizational. The sponsor entity must be formed, EIN
received and certificate of standing in place. |
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Project
Team. The key slots in the project delivery team have to be filled
with contracts and/or memorandums of understanding executed and
enforceable. |
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Round Capitalization. An initial round of capital funding has to be
closed that provides the funds necessary to defray the costs of processing
the grant, the carrying costs associated with the project over the
processing period and the completion of any other due diligence
documentation requirements that might become known as a result of the grant
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If
you are seeking to develop a commercial real estate project and are worried
about attracting capital funding in the current economic cycle, then you should
be talking to a Rainmaker consultant. Talk to the industry leader and expect to be impressed.
Straight talk and detailed answers to all of your questions.
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What
Goes Into An Underwriting?
The Rainmaker approach is truly
a comprehensive assessment with 66 exhibits collected on every project
that cover every aspect of the development, construction, operations and
regulatory matters. Collateral, credit and capacity underwriting reviews
are conducted using CREFC underwriting standards in addition to a
complete default risk analysis on term, maturity and technical default
risk profiles. Our typical underwriting report on a new
construction project will easily exceed 500 pages and catalogue all
transaction documents, plans and specifications. |
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