THE CHICAGO COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE FIELD GUIDEAn educational publication backed by Jaken Finance Group
PRACTICAL CHECKLIST · UNGATED & PRINTABLE

Commercial financing submission

Help a lender evaluate the property, borrower and execution plan efficiently.

Use this as a working agenda. Confirm transaction-specific requirements with your advisers. Checkmarks are temporary and reset when the page reloads.

01. Prepare a transaction summary

Explain property type, use, purchase or refinance, timing, requested debt and the investment business plan.

02. Supply property financials

Include a current rent roll, leases, historical statements, trailing operating results and explanations of adjustments.

03. Show sources and uses

Balance acquisition, closing, improvements, leasing costs, fees and reserves against debt and documented equity.

04. Provide sponsor information

Organize entity structure, ownership, experience, liquidity and requested guarantor information securely.

05. Document the capital plan

Include scope, bids, contingency, timeline, draw assumptions and third-party supervision if applicable.

06. Explain the exit

Model stabilization, permanent-debt constraints, sale assumptions and maturity repayment risk.

07. Identify property issues

Disclose known environmental, title, condition, occupancy, legal-use and tenant concerns.

08. Compare terms consistently

Track rate, index, floor, amortization, maturity, recourse, fees, holdbacks, covenants and prepayment.

09. Verify closing conditions

Document who must supply each report or certificate and when it is due.

10. Use secure intake

Follow the lender’s approved submission process. Do not place confidential borrower records in public site content.

11. Reconcile versions and open questions

Date the package, identify the author of each assumption, keep one adjustment log and answer lender questions against the same current rent roll, budget and sources-and-uses schedule.

12. Confirm authority and decision dates

Identify who can approve the financing and sign for each entity. Align commitment expiration, rate-lock conditions, purchase deadlines and the funded closing calendar.

An original editorial checklist. It is not a legal form, lender requirement list or substitute for a property-specific investigation.

Research context

These sources inform the underlying investment questions. The checklist is an original working agenda; the sources do not impose every listed step on every transaction.