In an event of emergency, the most sought option to arrange money is personal loan provided all other alternatives such as own savings or help from acquaintances fail to meet the requirement.

However before granting loan; lenders first check the income and the employer’s credibility. If the applicant works in a big company (public or private limited) and meets all other criteria including CIBIL score, salary etc. then approval is quick.

However if someone works in a proprietor firm then it becomes a challenge to get finance. This is because lender also check the credibility of the company applicant works for. Since in a proprietorship company ownership is held by a single person, so risks such as sustainability, turnover etc. always exists. For e.g. if anything unfortunate happens to the proprietor, then the whole business may come to standstill and there will be uncertainty in the job of employees i.e. company may shut down or workers will not get salary and so on. And in such cases, if any employee is granted a personal loan then repayment will become difficult due to no income.

Although there are loans which you can get by keeping securities as collateral with the bank. We would be discussing such financing options in this article.

So how can employee of proprietorship firm get personal loan? There are few solutions as follows:

High income: If the applicant works in a proprietor run company but earns good income which is higher than required by the lender then he/she has higher chance of finance approval. In addition to this, if the company is into business for a long time and profitable too then also the chances of getting personal loan increases. Salary slip and bank statement as required by the lender will help to prove the income.

Against fixed deposit: If the borrower has FD account with the bank then he can get personal loan against this FD at a lower interest rate with minimal documentation. Most importantly lender won’t check the employer’s credibility. This type of a loan is secured as the FD is pledged with the bank. And applicant will get loan amount which is 80% – 90% of the FD amount.

Against securities: Employee from proprietorship firm can also get personal loan by keeping LIC policy, gold, mutual fund, ETF, and savings bonds as a security with the bank. Calculation of the loan amount varies with each financier. Some may have a cap on the amount while others may lend money depending on the market value of the pledged security.

Peer lenders: If all of the above solutions fail then individual working at proprietorship company can apply for personal loan at peer to peer online loan marketplaces. Borrower gets an option to choose the investors (basically money lenders) and at the same time bargain for interest rate. Although every P2PL company has its own eligibility criteria, applicant has vast options to choose a lender. Also called as PTPL, these marketplaces are secured way of getting personal loan and charges are very less compared to banks.

Private money lenders: This option is mentioned but should be avoided as much as possible. Because they take control of your assets such as property or gold or any other till the complete repayment is done. And there are cases of fraudulent activities conducted by these lenders of forging the documents and taking control of the assets. Negative sides of getting personal loan from them is that interest rate charged is very high and recovery process is very bad. Ofcourse there are few benefits such as no credit history check, quick disbursal of money, flexi-repayment option, etc.

Check out pros and cons of private money lenders.

So as mentioned above there are multiple options for employee of a proprietor owned company to get personal loan. Remember to payback all the EMI on time and fully which will help in getting a good CIBIL score.