I liked Agility's initial concept. For the buyer to present a BASIC spreadsheet type business plan, showing how they will without a doubt be able to generate enough revenue to pay the lease. All banks should do that, to understand what it is they are lending for. But for everything that followed after that concept, they lost me :-)
Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: "RickG" <rgunder...@gmail.com> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 11:10 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Quesiton on Funding / Financing / Capital Availability Well, Agility will but what out for the terms! -RickG On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Tom DeReggi <wirelessn...@rapiddsl.net> wrote: > I've never found a lender willing to lend against using the in-place used > equipment as colladeral. > It is the biggest double standard. > I find it highly ironic that they'll use a car for colladeral that looses > 50% of its value the day it leaves the lot, and has a rate of failure and > risk of damage higher than just about any product on the market, and it > has > a huge cash burn (gas :-). but yet lendors won't put equivellent value on > wireless gear, that holds its value, Ebay boasting easilly 50% after 3-4 > years of use, even after fully depreciated. > I'll never understand the lending market. > > Tom DeReggi > RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc > IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <rea...@muddyfrogwater.us> > To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 1:55 PM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Quesiton on Funding / Financing / Capital > Availability > > >> Answers in-line. >> >> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> <insert witty tagline here> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Charles Wu" <c...@cticonnect.com> >> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> >> Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 8:49 AM >> Subject: [WISPA] Quesiton on Funding / Financing / Capital Availability >> >> >>> With all the hype being generated by the stimulus bill, we have been >>> approached by a multitude of third party financial organizations that >>> have >>> a renewed interest in potentially financing rural broadband...now, >>> specifically, for WISPs, in the past, equipment leasing has been a very >>> popular option for financing, but in looking at our numbers over the >>> past >>> year, I've noticed a marked decline in the amount of leasing that we >>> do - >>> that said, I have the following questions for the listserv about >>> financing >>> >>> Assuming that WISPs are still need to buy equipment... >>> >>> 1. Are you able to just purchase equipment out of cash-flow organically >>> generated from operations >> >> Other than originally starting with our own personal seed money, that's >> what >> we've done. >> >>> 2. Have you gone to more traditional forms of money (e.g., bank / SBA / >>> RUS loans)? >> >> I could not qualify for any of them. >> >>> 3. Are you doing more vendor leasing programs (e.g., Motorola 3% >>> financing >>> deal) >> >> Never sought any. >> >>> 4. Have you not been able to borrow money due to the credit crunch >>> (e.g., >>> not deploying as aggressively) >> >> My corporation hasn't ever been able to obtain hard money credit. In >> fact, the "credit crunch" start last Fall raised my "30+ day past due" >> amount from a piddly $1200 to at one time to almost $13,000 in just four >> months. That almost put us under, and we're still barely scraping by >> until >> our seasonally variable cash flow revives come August, with still several >> thousand on the books that's very slowly getting chipped away at. >> >>> 5. Are you holding off on deployments because of the economy >> >> No, we're holding off due to lack of cash flow. We have plenty of people >> waiting for us to build infrastructure out to them. >> >>> 6. Have you gone to Agility...<cough> Louie the loanshark =) >> >> After much discussion, being some of the first people Agility contacted, >> we >> have not done any business with them. In my estimation, they wanted >> control over our business and day to day decisions, which we concluded >> was >> both unwarranted and unwise. >> >>> >>> Or any other thoughts / comments on this topic? >>> >> >> WISP equipment is not really a "commodity" in that there is almost no >> market >> for it outside of the "maker-vendor" relationship. Other than Ebay, and a >> couple of people who attempt to do it piecemeal, there is no "market" >> which >> stabilizes the value of used equipment, making them a commodity you can >> borrow against. >> >> Perhaps it would be more useful, if vendors had the ability to get >> capital >> and create stable working and short term credit relationships with their >> buyers, kind of like the used car market. >> >> >> >>> -Charles >>> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >>> http://signup.wispa.org/ >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >>> >>> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >>> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >>> >>> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! 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