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I would be a first time business owner, and would like to open a women’s Intimate Apparel store. How can I get started. Do I need a business loan, how would I go about renting space?

Can anyone help me cut through the crap and let me know where and how to apply for grants to open a small business. I’m a single mother of one dependent in college and want to open a “sweets” business (cakes, cookies, candies). I have lousy credit due to an ugly divorce. Please help if you have any experience with this.

I have checked all the supposed grants lists that you have to purchase and most of the grants available to women owned business are not for start-ups. They appear to be for tools once you are already in business, like money to pay an IT person or accountant if you need it. SBA has a 10,000.00 microloan that you still have to have good credit to get for a start up but I will need about 20,000.00 total. I can try to get a tax id number but even that would be New credit which can be worse than no credit. Anyone have this as a specialty or gone through this same situation lately?