Get $200,000 To Start A Ranch
…… ..wouldn’t it be fun to chuck the city life and go raise horses out in the country? Well, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has a money program to help you. It’s called Farm Operating Loans and it is for people who want to run small farms or ranches away from traffic that scares the horses. You can actually get up to $762,000 with interest rates as low as 3.75%. Pretty good deal. See http://www.fsa.usda.gov/dafl/default.htm

Get $100,000 For Doing Business In Certain Zip Codes
…… you can get a federal tax credit of up to $3,000 per employee if you locate your business in certain areas called empowerment/enterprise zones. Who cares if your business is a few miles further than you would like especially if someone is going to give you a lot a money to be there. For further information and to identify these zones go to http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/economicdevelopment/programs/rc/index.cfm

Bad Credit Can Make You Eligible
…… when applying for government money a lot of things just don’t make sense. I can’t explain why every program exists, I can only show you that they do exist. And, it’s true, there are programs that are set up for entrepreneurs to get money to start a business if they have less than stellar credit. Actually many government programs have been established to serve people who can’t get money elsewhere. Yours is not to reason why, yours is just to apply.

$500,000 Grant To Work On An Education Related Invention
…… .do you have an idea for a product? Or do you have an idea that would enhance an existing product? Well the government will give you up to $500,000 if it will in some way help kids learn or help teachers teach. This money is set aside for small companies or individual inventors. It’s called the Small Business Technology Transfer Program or the Small Business Innovative Research Program. See more at http://www.ed.gov/offices/IES/SBIR/index.html