The Piney Woods of East Texas runs on pine, rain and long drives between towns. This page covers the cash-flow patterns of the businesses there and when working capital helps.
Apply Now →The Piney Woods is a temperate coniferous forest that covers East Texas and reaches into Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma. It is dominated by several species of pine and some hardwoods, and it gets heavy rainfall. The Big Thicket was historically the densest part, and logging reduced forest cover across the region during the 19th and 20th centuries. In the ecoregion description, timber production is the dominant land use, along with livestock grazing, poultry production and oil and gas activities, and Longview, Tyler and Nacogdoches are named among Texas settlements.
Our county grouping includes Smith, Gregg, Harrison, Rusk, Upshur, Wood, Cherokee, Henderson, Anderson, Angelina, Nacogdoches, Shelby, Panola, Cass, Bowie, Titus, Hardin, Jasper, Polk and Walker. It is a general list, and county membership is approximate.
Rain affects almost every outdoor trade here. Roofers, paving crews, landscapers, excavators and equipment haulers can lose work days that cannot be billed. A week of weather is not a bad week for sales; it is a week of costs with no sales at all. Businesses that carry wages through a wet spell need a reserve, or a way to build one.
This is an example, not our terms. A small contracting company wins a job needing $22,000 in materials and wages over five weeks, but the customer pays after final inspection. Heavy rain adds a week. The company now has to carry the whole job one week longer than planned. Working capital sized for the planned schedule leaves no room for that week. When estimating a bridge, add slack for the weather, not just the contract timeline.
Compared with the Metroplex, East Texas towns can be far apart, and a larger share of customers may be in rural areas. That raises fuel and vehicle costs and makes dependable equipment more valuable. If you are weighing a repair against a replacement, put a figure on the days of lost work an old unit has already cost you.
Funding runs from $25,000 to $5,000,000, and can be funded in as little as 24 hours once approved. The application takes about 5 minutes. Sole proprietors can apply, which suits the many one-owner shops and crews. Apply here when you know the figure the job requires.
It is a pine-dominated forest region of East Texas that also extends into Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma.
Lost work days still carry wages, fuel and loan payments, so wet weather widens a cash gap even when sales are not at fault.
Yes. Sole proprietors can apply, and funding availability depends on the application.
This page uses general county groupings, not an official boundary. You can apply from any Texas location.
Figure out the exact amount a job or season will need, including slack for delays.
Three months of business bank statements and a 5-minute application. FICO 500+ considered. $25,000 to $5,000,000, funded in as little as 24 hours.
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