SBA EIDL loans are not assumable, meaning they cannot be transferred to another party. Another option to sell a business with an SBA loan is for the buyer to assume the loan.SBA loans are fully assumable with SBA approval. All lenders and CDCs should be cognizant of the loan program requirements for the assumption, assignment, and sale of SBA loans. The new buyer can apply for assumption of your loan thru your servicing office. The answer is that it depends so basically the way this works is the new buyer is going to need to be approved basically for that for that idle loan. An assumable mortgage involves one borrower taking over, or assuming, another borrower's existing home loan. Find out how it works. Create an account in the MySBA Loan Portal (lending.sba. Gov) to monitor your loan status or to make payments.