Archive for the 'Getting Started' Category

Advice for Potential a New Peer-to-Peer Lender

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 […]

P2P Lending: Everyone is Watching

My funds arrived to Prosper Marketplace a few days ago. I planned to jump into Prosper and start carefully selecting loans for funding. I browsed a few loans, but I have cold feet.
So I opened my blog to reflect…. Why am I nervous about bidding? I had no problem lending on Lending […]

Lending Club ROI Bonus: 5% extra return as a “Thank You!”

Lending Club is offering a 5% ROI bonus in the form of a “Thank you!” to investors who lend more than $5,000 before February 3rd 2008. If you lend $5,000 before the deadline, you will receive a bonus of $250! If you use my Lending Club Affiliate Link and open the account with […]

Video of Creating a Loan Portfolio at Lending Club

Recently, I created my first loan portfolio at Lending Club. I recorded the loan portfolio creation process and decided to share it in case you have not experienced Lending Club personally. I added some narration to explain the basics of the process. The video is cropped in several places to keep it […]

Prosper and Lending Club Advice for New Lenders

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 […]

Review of My First Loans with Lending Club

I extended my first $400 worth of loans with Lending Club on Sunday night. I intended to lend $500 but could not find enough people that I wanted to extend credit at this time. I decided to give a quick report of what worked well and what could have been better about the my […]

Requesting Advice on P2P Lending

Update 12/3/2007: Advice for new P2P Lenders has now been posted.  
If my account is funded this week, I hope to lend money for the first time using a P2P lending service by Friday. Since I will be selecting my first loans, I am requesting some advice based on readers’ P2P lending experiences. […]

Lending Club Referral Program - It’s Official!

Although not yet formally announced, Lending Club now has an affiliate referral program. Rex Dixon, Director of Social Media Content at Lending Club, has confirmed it in the P2PNoBank Forums. I believe the deal is the same as Prosper’s referral program — $25 for both referrer and the new person who signs up […]

Prosper Allowing Choice of Collection Agency

I decided to sign up with Prosper at the same time I am waiting for my Lending Club account to be tied to my checking account. Interestingly, Prosper allowed me to select my collections agency. The sign up process gave a choice of two companies Penncro and Fristsource and listed their collections statistics which I […]

Signing up for Lending Club over Prosper (at first)

After doing a little tire kicking, I decided to sign up with Lending Club first. I have entered all the prerequisite data including the bank account number. The initial sign up was quick and required basics such as social security number to reduce fraud and because they will send a 1099 at the end […]