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What Can You Do If Your Business Loan is Not Approved

By Adegbola Valentine
Last updated: September 8, 2025
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What Can You Do If Your Business Loan is Not Approved

What Can You Do If Your Business Loan is Not Approved. A warm greetings from BizPremi, we know why you are here. Not great, but we are happy to be of help.

Contents
  • What Can You Do If Your Business Loan is Not Approved
    • What To Do After Rejection
      • Don’t Take It Personal
      • Be Thankful
      • Ask For A Recheck
      • Review Yourself
      • Review Like A Lender
      • Assess the lender you contacted for the loan.
      • Consider Another Loan type
      • Get In Touch With Small Business Administration.
    • Final Note

After taking a bold step, in business loan and how to get it. And then you get rejected. It’s overwhelming, and depressing. Hoping to hear great news, a nice feedback, and all you could get was;

We are Sorry, but your loan, is not approved at this time.

Nothing is more annoying than this statement. It just weakens the body. But don’t give up, at least not yet. Especially when the business loan, was your only short of realizing your ideas. Don’t let the rejection get to you, instead, look back into your application, as to reason why it was declined. Might be surprised what you’d find.

What To Do After Rejection

Like said earlier, do not let the rejection weigh you down. Instead pick up that mantle, and look for ways to realize your dreams, Below are what to do after a rejection of a business loan. While it’s has worked for some, I only wish it does for you too.

Don’t Take It Personal

Yes we all know, many lenders don’t go by the book. Some can reject your application based on character, saying business owner’s character is poor. Therefore we can’t approve. While this is true, there are also other factors, as to why the application was declined. These factors includes;

  • Credit scores
  • income
  • debt ratio
  • Risk of the business

Should your business loan gets rejected, you should really look into these factors, as they may play big impact more than you could imagine. I mean no lender want’s trouble or a court case. So in any way they can avoid that, they will.

Be Thankful

Majority of us, after a loan rejection the next thing is to mope. and be transferring aggressions on people or other things. Some of us can even go as far as insulting the lender, might be indirect. But an insult, is an insult.

But seriously we don’t need this. Rather than insulting, learn to be thankful and appreciative. The loan was rejected today, doesn’t be that will the same results in time to come. Just make sure you don’t leave there angrily or on a bad term.

In some cases, a rejected application have been approved in under 24 hours.

Ask For A Recheck

You can even ask for a recheck, yes it got rejected doesn’t mean you can’t ask for another review. Sometimes, the rejection is due to errors on their own end. probably a missing document, incomplete details, or that the lender was just in a bad mood.

Don’t be surprised, it happens. And if none of these were the reasons, you can ask for full information as to why the application was rejected. And if eventually, the loan was rejected truthfully, you get to know full reasons why it was.

If it was an error from your own end, you are sure never to repeat. If it’s because of an incomplete document, next time they are complete. And sometimes, if it’s a correctible error. Some may allow you to correct and resubmit.

That’s the importance of asking for extra review.

Review Yourself

While some lenders may not provide reasons as to why your application was rejected. There is no harm in checking yourself. Finding out why it wasn’t approved. I’ll recommend this first before asking for another review from the lender.

This way, should there be an error from your end, you would picked it, corrected it. After checking this, you might even find out enough reasons why the loan application was not approved.

Review Like A Lender

While reviewing yourself, act as if you are the lender, ask yourself genuine questions, and answer truthfully. Because sometimes your loan application may lack direction, you say it’s a business proposal what if the lender is seeing your application for a personal loan.

Then ask yourself, since you are checking your own application like a lender now, would you really accept an application like that?  If no, then you already know reason for rejection.

Often times, a lender may decline your business loan because he/she is not clear as to how the business will operate and succeed. So can expect an approval with an application that lacks certainty.

Another thing to do is to request copies of your reports from a trusted credit report website like Experian, can give you your credit rating.

After getting this report, you can highlights and mark those reds. Reds meaning the negative side of your credit rating. Explaining to your lender yourself preventing them from finding out shows you own up to it, and responsible.

Assess the lender you contacted for the loan.

Sometimes, we do the mistake ourselves by submitting a business loan application to the wrong place. If your loan, is for a small business. Let’s say a start up. Lenders that deals with large businesses, will definitely turn down your application.

Smaller firms, lenders, banks or credit union is better because they will allow you the opportunity to work face to face with the decision maker who will approve or decline your business loan.

Larger banks and financial institutions do not offer you the opportunity to state your case directly to the decision maker, which can increase your chances of not being approved. In the event that you approached a large bank, focus your second attempt on a smaller bank or credit union, especially if your business loan was not approved.

Consider Another Loan type

If your business loan is not approved, considering another loan type, is another great option. Because smaller businesses or startups may experience difficulty in loan consideration especially when it’s a big loan from a big lender.

It’s okay to get another type of loan and use it for your business. What’s not okay, is getting a business loan and using it for another purpose. Also your loan amount could be the cause. if the loan amount you need is around $5,000 to $10,000. could be lesser, consider applying for a signature loan.

But if the loan is for a sizeable amount, or more than $10,000, and your business loan was not approved, consider refinancing your home in order to receive funds. And this can be used for business purposes. Another thing to do is to offer collateral for a personal loan. Home equity loans can offer the lowest interest rates, but don’t forget to consider all other types of loans initially. Take your time, and weigh all factors carefully. While doing that, you can check out this Guide to Getting a Debt Consolidation Loan In The UK.

Get In Touch With Small Business Administration.

This administration offers guaranteed loans to businesses meeting their criteria, and specifically, the SBA (Small Business Administration ) has loan programs especially for businesses owned by women.

You can contact your local SBA offices for information, or visit www.sba.gov.

Final Note

A rejection in your business proposal or application is not the end, It’s for you to become creative and look for the ways to get your application approved, or new different type of loans and use for your business. There are different benefits of getting a business loan. What Are The Benefits Of Getting A Business Loan?

After going through that article maybe you’d see why a business loan is needed and why you shouldn’t just give up.

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