This is an updated post: The original post was July 12, but this update (October 10) is to let you know that the new company has been open for three months. Updates in August, after four weeks of operation, are in red. Updates for October 10, are in BLUE..
This blog has dealt with job-searching, and has addressed the advantages and disadvantages of having your own business. While that approach is certainly not for everyone, McCrabby has decided it is definitely for him.
This month (starting in July), a new company has begun operations. Curtis Funding Group, LLC will be providing equipment leasing and financing services for commercial and municipal clients, much as we have done for the past 20 years.
This new organization allows significant costs to be cut, and it lets me deal directly with each client from start to finish on each transaction. With reduced costs, I can pass on lower rates to my clients and provide more personal attention to each transaction, while managing the entire process more closely.
I have added two strong individuals to partner with me in this company, and they will be bringing their equipment leasing business (and each has 10-20 years of equipment leasing experience) to Curtis Funding Group, LLC. It is very exciting, and very gratifying to bring talented, experienced people to this new endeavor.
We will be open to bringing in others, and are offering a rich, creative, and aggressive commission schedule to those that partner with us.
This is an exciting change and one we look forward to. While my relationship with another leasing company the past two years has been positive, and while I have warm feelings for the people involved there, the time has come to run an operation again, and to expand my business at lower costs.
While we anticipated that we may not get every funding source we wanted, due to being brand new, it has been very rewarding to attain a relationship with virtually every funding source we have approached (except one).
And, we have added new funding sources that we have never worked with in the past. They give us access to some funding options we haven't had in the past. We have every niche we wanted covered.
It took about one month to put all procedures in place, so our business actually began processing equipment financing agreements about August 1. And, this month, we have rejoined NAELB (National Association of Equipment Lease Brokers), where we are a "MASTER BROKER," and we have aligned with CoreLogic, which allows us to pull credits from all three credit bureaus.
We wrote more business in September than in any single month the past three years. Business is picking up, our costs are reduced, and our capabilities have been enhanced. Everything is in place to break records in future months. If you'd like to know more, give us a call.
And, a special request: Next time you're on LinkedIn, please check out Curtis Funding Group in the "COMPANIES" section, and just click to follow us. As a new company, we don't have followers yet, and we'd like to see some. Thank you, in advance.
After announcing our opening in LinkedIn, we had underwriters calling to seek agreements to do business with us; we actually had to turn down a few of them.
A strong and ethical past history of leasing has put us in a good position to gain the relationships we need to be successful. Now, with our sources in place, and our website being operational (www.curtisfunding.com), our contracts and marketing materials all created, we are ready to process business.
Incurring reduced costs, resulting in lower rates from reputable and flexible underwriting partners, is putting Curtis Funding Group into a strong position to help more customers, at more competitive rates, with better support and follow through.
If you know any company or municipality or non-profit that needs equipment, and an economical way to finance it, have them call Curtis Funding Group. If you want to know more, call 248.238.7214 and ask for Curt.
Thanks for reading here this past two years. And, thanks to all the clients that have worked with me the past 20 years.
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How 'bout following us on Twitter, or signing up here.. We'd love to see you.. We only have 80 folks, and we'd love to get to a couple hundred (sign up on the left, where it says "join this site") so we can see your picture on this site. And follow us on twitter (@curtmacrae), where we don't post much, but we'd love to see you there.
This blog has dealt with job-searching, and has addressed the advantages and disadvantages of having your own business. While that approach is certainly not for everyone, McCrabby has decided it is definitely for him.
This month (starting in July), a new company has begun operations. Curtis Funding Group, LLC will be providing equipment leasing and financing services for commercial and municipal clients, much as we have done for the past 20 years.
This new organization allows significant costs to be cut, and it lets me deal directly with each client from start to finish on each transaction. With reduced costs, I can pass on lower rates to my clients and provide more personal attention to each transaction, while managing the entire process more closely.
I have added two strong individuals to partner with me in this company, and they will be bringing their equipment leasing business (and each has 10-20 years of equipment leasing experience) to Curtis Funding Group, LLC. It is very exciting, and very gratifying to bring talented, experienced people to this new endeavor.
We will be open to bringing in others, and are offering a rich, creative, and aggressive commission schedule to those that partner with us.
This is an exciting change and one we look forward to. While my relationship with another leasing company the past two years has been positive, and while I have warm feelings for the people involved there, the time has come to run an operation again, and to expand my business at lower costs.
While we anticipated that we may not get every funding source we wanted, due to being brand new, it has been very rewarding to attain a relationship with virtually every funding source we have approached (except one).
And, we have added new funding sources that we have never worked with in the past. They give us access to some funding options we haven't had in the past. We have every niche we wanted covered. It took about one month to put all procedures in place, so our business actually began processing equipment financing agreements about August 1. And, this month, we have rejoined NAELB (National Association of Equipment Lease Brokers), where we are a "MASTER BROKER," and we have aligned with CoreLogic, which allows us to pull credits from all three credit bureaus.
We wrote more business in September than in any single month the past three years. Business is picking up, our costs are reduced, and our capabilities have been enhanced. Everything is in place to break records in future months. If you'd like to know more, give us a call.
And, a special request: Next time you're on LinkedIn, please check out Curtis Funding Group in the "COMPANIES" section, and just click to follow us. As a new company, we don't have followers yet, and we'd like to see some. Thank you, in advance.
After announcing our opening in LinkedIn, we had underwriters calling to seek agreements to do business with us; we actually had to turn down a few of them.
A strong and ethical past history of leasing has put us in a good position to gain the relationships we need to be successful. Now, with our sources in place, and our website being operational (www.curtisfunding.com), our contracts and marketing materials all created, we are ready to process business.
Incurring reduced costs, resulting in lower rates from reputable and flexible underwriting partners, is putting Curtis Funding Group into a strong position to help more customers, at more competitive rates, with better support and follow through.
If you know any company or municipality or non-profit that needs equipment, and an economical way to finance it, have them call Curtis Funding Group. If you want to know more, call 248.238.7214 and ask for Curt.
Thanks for reading here this past two years. And, thanks to all the clients that have worked with me the past 20 years.
__________________________________
How 'bout following us on Twitter, or signing up here.. We'd love to see you.. We only have 80 folks, and we'd love to get to a couple hundred (sign up on the left, where it says "join this site") so we can see your picture on this site. And follow us on twitter (@curtmacrae), where we don't post much, but we'd love to see you there.