Tab, I've heard a hundred times on this forum that your in busness, Tell me you never got a grant, tax cut or a small busness loan sponsored by the goverment. 
never had a grant, never had a tax "break", all the smal biz loans I have gotton have been from hard money lenders. now I have done goverment sponsored rehab work( IE contractors bid out to remodel homes that had been taken for what ever reason) All of those were given away to charitys, like womens shelters and foster care. My bid just happend to be the lowest( by about $200 bucks lol)
Other then me not getting paid right away it was a great job, didn't have to put up with the normal BS from the building dept/ inspectors. Every thing was rubber stamped and green lighted. Even the cert of habitabilty was a cake walk, took 2 hours. Normally they take 2 weeks and atleast a dozen people to sign off on it. Its not uncommon for them to take a month... Its really sad, all you need is proof that you paid all the fees and passed all your inspections... It should be a quick 10 min computer search... instead you have to go around to all the diffrent agencys and get them to sign off.