New here? You may want to subscribe to the RSS feed or browse the site map. Thanks!Tom at Prosper Lending Review may have topped my compiled blogger advice for new lenders by posting advice from 11 people for someone considering peer lending. The person seeking advice is concerned about stock market returns and […]
I decided to review the statistics at Lending Club and I scrolled down past the table towards the CSV file of data. There I noticed an amazing figure — Loans Not Approved for Listing. 5,137 loans for $44.9 million dollars have been denied for listing on Lending Club. The total number of loans […]
I heard last year about SUV owners who were upside down in their car loans resorting to arson due to high gasoline prices. Out of desperation, car owners torch (or pay $300 to a professional arsonist for the service) to collect the insurance money. There is a great quote from the article:
At the root […]
I mentioned previously that the subprime mortgage crisis should impact your personal loan strategy because of the number of desperate people needing just a little quick cash to prolong a slow fall into bankruptcy and foreclosure on their homes. CnnMoney confers with their article on the number of people taking out Payday loans to […]
In honor of Prosper.com’s post mentioning the wisdom of crowds, I have decided to allow the readers of Personal Loan Portfolio to decide where I invest my next $500*. The poll is listed below…
Update: People’s Choice Poll Results and Analysis Posted.
Should I invest my next $500 in P2P loans at Prosper.com, Lending Club, or […]
Late night web browsing brought me view Rate Ladder’s first Lending Club portfolio. He posted some good suggestions for improving Lending Club as I think I did on my review of my first loan portfolio with Lending Club.
One item in his review of his first Lending Club portfolio left me scratching my head when […]
Wiseclerk mentioned the fighting over the Wikipedia article on Prosper. (The disagreement can be seen on the Wikipedia talk page. ) This reminded me of the wikipedia scanner. The wikipedia scanner checks Wikipedia edits versus the IP address of the editor and looks up the domain to find out possibly what […]
Zopa, the P2P Lending company from the UK has now opened its virtual doors in the United States. Zopa has been providing a P2P marketplace in Italy and the UK for some time now. The rates that they are offering to borrowers (currently starting at 8.75%) for unsecured loans are quite low […]
Based upon my recent request, I received some useful advice from several P2P lending bloggers that I was grateful to receive before investing in my first loans with Lending Club. I am also excited to share this advice with other potential lenders. First, let me offer my own advice that I wrote on another […]
As I browsed Prosper loans, I was surprised at the number of community members who would like to use their good credit score to borrow money in order to reinvest the money in other P2P loans. This is called leverage and by definition it does increase risk. Is it a strategy that is likely […]
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