Commercial loan brokers should provide a real service to their clients. An emphasis should be on saving their clients time, helping them avoid aggravation, costly mistakes and of course, should be able to line up the right bank to the borrowers unique situation. Bottom line, the broker's prior experience should help guide the borrower, who may have little or no experiencing sourcing, negotiating, processing, and closing a commercial mortgage.One of the more valuable components of what a good commercial loan broker does, is introduce the borrower to lenders they would never, (realistically) be able to find on their own. There is a full market of commercial lenders out there that do not have branches and instead depend on their broker networks to find deals and introduce creative/unique programs that traditional banks do not offer (such as commercial stated income loans, commercial 30 year fixed or second lien position loans, etc).In
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