With Prosper in its “quiet period” these charts may not be as useful, but eventually Prosper will emerge so I’ll continue to update monthly. If you haven’t been following these Late Loan Chart updates, you can find a description of my methods here in p…
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November 8th, 2008 — , Advice for New Lenders, Late Charts, Late Loan Charts, Prosper.com, ROI, lending strategy from Jeremy Frazao @ Prosper Lending, My Experience
My first 35% loan (and the lender who made it happen)
October 4th, 2008 — , Advice for New Lenders, Prosper.com, lending strategy from Jeremy Frazao @ Prosper Lending, My Experience
Well, it finally happened. I had a portfolio plan set to bid on listings with little chance of funding in an effort to attract attention to this blog and my website, http://www.prosperlinks.bravehost.com/. I funded this plan with $50.03 on June 3rd of …
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Forum Lenders = Good Borrowers? (Update)
September 13th, 2008 — , Advice for New Lenders, Community, Low Risk Loans, Prosper Forums, Prosper.com, lending strategy from Jeremy Frazao @ Prosper Lending, My Experience
I posed this question in July in this post. At the time, I promised updates as these loans age and as more loans are included in this sub-portfolio. Since then, I’ve made two more of these loans and the others all remain current with no late payments. …
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August 31st, 2008 — , Advice for New Lenders, Common Mistakes, Late loans, Prosper.com, lending strategy from Jeremy Frazao @ Prosper Lending, My Experience
Late last month I reviewed the loans made in May that were already falling behind. One month later, I thought it would be a good time to check on their status.You can see the four late A loans I discussed last month in this post. There is some good new…
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August 30th, 2008 — , Advice for New Lenders, Community, Late loans, Prosper.com, ROI, lending strategy from Jeremy Frazao @ Prosper Lending, My Experience
Has Prosper turned the corner and realized that lenders are the key to it’s success? The official Prosper Blog, which for so long seemed dedicated to attracting only borrowers, has focused its last three posts on lenders’ concerns. But that’s not all.O…
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August 27th, 2008 — , Advice for New Lenders, Portfolio Plans, Prosper.com, ROI from Jeremy Frazao @ Prosper Lending, My Experience
I’ve been pretty conservative from the start as you can probably tell by the average lender rate on my portfolio. So far, it’s paid off. A while back, I decided I’d try a portfolio plan to increase my ROI. (In a future post, I’ll examine this sub-po…
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Prosper Fixes Referral Ads
August 21st, 2008 — , Advice for New Lenders, Community, Prosper.com from Jeremy Frazao @ Prosper Lending, My Experience
The other day I posted about a Prosper ad for a disabled referral program here. It now appears Prosper has fixed the problem.Clicking on the ad does take you to the home page where you see nothing that mentions a referral or bonus. However, then clicki…
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August 19th, 2008 — , Advice for New Lenders, Community, Late loans, Prosper.com, lending strategy from Jeremy Frazao @ Prosper Lending, My Experience
by Prosper management!Prosper’s CFO has a loan that is less than 15 days late, exposed by a lender on the loan in this thread on Prospers.org. Today, the lender let everyone know that daggers appeared on the loan.Though Bamalucky blogged about this yes…
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August 18th, 2008 — , Advice for New Lenders, Community, Prosper.com from Jeremy Frazao @ Prosper Lending, My Experience
Not if you clicked on an ad like this lately…The referral program that offered this activation bonus was terminated on July 1, 2008 and replaced by the program described on Prosper here. The ad was placed on various sites and blogs to generate income…
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Platform Changes in 8/13 Update
August 14th, 2008 — , Advice for New Lenders, Late loans, Prosper.com, lending strategy from Jeremy Frazao @ Prosper Lending, My Experience
Now that I’m home from work, let’s take a closer look at the changes Prosper made last night.The first (and most obvious) is something some lenders have been clamoring for, sort of. By showing all 4+ month lates as charged off, lenders should be able t…
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August 12th, 2008 — , Advice for New Lenders, Portfolio Plans, Prosper.com, lending strategy from Jeremy Frazao @ Prosper Lending, My Experience
Trusting Portfolio Plans to do your bidding may minimize the time you invest, but they can’t see the danger in listings like this: Trying to start my Life in Los Angeles.If the title isn’t enough to scare you away from this listing, take a look at the …
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August 4th, 2008 — , Advice for New Lenders, Common Mistakes, Prosper.com, lending strategy from Jeremy Frazao @ Prosper Lending, My Experience
How many times have you heard the cry, “Why is this an (insert low credit grade here)?” I’ve seen it posted on the forums from borrowers and lenders many times. Many times the conclusion drawn is that Scorex sucks and is terribly flawed. Don’t be to…
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August 2nd, 2008 — , Advice for New Lenders, Common Mistakes, Late loans, Prosper.com, lending strategy from Jeremy Frazao @ Prosper Lending, My Experience
This will be the final post in this series as we take a look at the D loans originating in May that are already late.Loan #1: 1 Month Late $1,000 D @ 29.11%http://www.prosper.com/lend/listing.aspx?listingID=334932The title tells me to stay away, move o…
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August 2nd, 2008 — , Advice for New Lenders, Common Mistakes, Late loans, Prosper.com, lending strategy from Jeremy Frazao @ Prosper Lending, My Experience
Today, we’ll examine the 6 C’s that originated in May and are already late.Loan #1: Late $5,000 C @ 35% AFhttp://www.prosper.com/lend/listing.aspx?listingID=324710Autofund has been shown to drastically increase the rate of default. Why anyone still b…
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August 2nd, 2008 — , Advice for New Lenders, Common Mistakes, Late loans, Prosper.com, lending strategy from Jeremy Frazao @ Prosper Lending, My Experience
Today, we’ll examine the 6 C’s that originated in May and are already late.Loan #1: Late $5,000 C @ 35% AFhttp://www.prosper.com/lend/listing.aspx?listingID=324710Autofund has been shown to drastically increase the rate of default. Why anyone still b…
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August 1st, 2008 — , Advice for New Lenders, Common Mistakes, Late loans, Prosper.com, lending strategy from Jeremy Frazao @ Prosper Lending, My Experience
As promised, we’ll take a closer look at the B late loans from May 2008 today. I’m not going to bother with the E and HR loans, because their elevated risk is a red flag in itself. These loans usually contain other red flags, but most new lenders shoul…
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July 31st, 2008 — , Advice for New Lenders, Common Mistakes, Late loans, Prosper.com, lending strategy from Jeremy Frazao @ Prosper Lending, My Experience
Lending on Prosper, you’ll hear a lot of people say “You just can’t tell who will and who won’t repay!” If that’s the case, then I’ve just been lucky so far. Since I tend to believe that we make our own luck for the most part, I just can’t concede tha…
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July 30th, 2008 — , Advice for New Lenders, Common Mistakes, Late loans, Prosper.com, lending strategy from Jeremy Frazao @ Prosper Lending, My Experience
I found this loan while investigating a blender’s request–going through her late loans. After blogging on pious borrowers the other day, this seemed to follow quite nicely.http://www.prosper.com/lend/listing.aspx?listingID=296216Quote from listing tex…
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July 28th, 2008 — , Advice for New Lenders, Prosper.com, ROI, lending strategy from Jeremy Frazao @ Prosper Lending, My Experience
I started lending slow and conservative on Prosper. My plan was to continue for a year, then decide whether I wanted to continue and/or increase my investment.Things were going well in that first year, but I couldn’t convince myself there were enough g…
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July 27th, 2008 — , Advice for New Lenders, Common Mistakes, Community, Prosper.com, ROI, lending strategy from Jeremy Frazao @ Prosper Lending, My Experience
We’ve all seen it, I’m sure. The borrower quoting scripture or using his supposed piety to convince lenders their bids are safe.This discussion came up the other day on the Loans2U group discussion forum and led to some interesting research.Lendingstat…
Prosper Borrower Finally Funds on 57th Try!
July 26th, 2008 — , Advice for New Lenders, Common Mistakes, Prosper.com, ROI, lending strategy from Jeremy Frazao @ Prosper Lending, My Experience
Most borrowers would have long ago given up, but mvbrothers2 never gave up. On her 57th listing, she finally funded her $1050 listing at a borrower rate of 37.45%.Her path to success on Prosper began with this listing in February, 2007 as an HR borrowe…
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Too bad if you missed this autofund AA, $25K @ 29.97%
July 24th, 2008 — , Advice for New Lenders, Common Mistakes, Prosper.com, ROI, lending strategy from Jeremy Frazao @ Prosper Lending, My Experience
http://www.prosper.com/lend/listing.aspx?listingID=372036Or is it?Really, why would someone with excellent credit be willing to pay such outrageous interest? And, why are lenders willing to bid on these listings?Michael Douglas, in the movie Wall Stree…
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Listings You Don’t Want to Bid On
July 22nd, 2008 — , Advice for New Lenders, Portfolio Plans, Prosper.com, ROI, lending strategy from Jeremy Frazao @ Prosper Lending, My Experience
This morning, I decided to create a Portfolio Plan to find listings with an estimated loss, even with a 35% lender rate. This plan is shared on my Prosper profile.As of this writing, 672 of the 2279 listings on Prosper are picked up by this plan–~30% …
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July 22nd, 2008 — , Advice for New Lenders, Common Mistakes, Late loans, Prosper.com, lending strategy from Jeremy Frazao @ Prosper Lending, My Experience
Today I see my first official “Late” loan in my account summary. Click to view larger image.However, I haven’t lost hope for this one yet.The borrower seems to be trying to make it right. One day after the daggers for the 10-day pull showed in my accou…
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July 20th, 2008 — , Advice for New Lenders, Community, Low Risk Loans, Prosper Forums, Prosper.com, ROI, lending strategy from Jeremy Frazao @ Prosper Lending, My Experience
New lenders can learn a lot from the various discussion forums dedicated to borrowing and lending on Prosper, but participation in these communities offers another benefit as well.Spending time reading the forums, one gets a lot of insight into minds o…
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July 20th, 2008 — , Advice for New Lenders, Common Mistakes, Prosper.com, ROI, lending strategy from Jeremy Frazao @ Prosper Lending, My Experience
When I first began to lend on Prosper, I thought the safest loans would also be the smallest. It seemed many other lenders felt the same, because these listings were bid down to really low rates. It makes sense doesn’t it? Small loans have lower paym…
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July 19th, 2008 — , Advice for New Lenders, Common Mistakes, Prosper.com, ROI, lending strategy from Jeremy Frazao @ Prosper Lending, My Experience
It’s easy to be attracted to the listings with really high rates, but I have always considered most borrowers higher risks who are willing to borrow money at exorbitant rates. Eric’s site offers us the ability to examine the late/default rates for …
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July 18th, 2008 — , Advice for New Lenders, Common Mistakes, Portfolio Plans, Prosper.com, lending strategy from Jeremy Frazao @ Prosper Lending, My Experience
Yesterday I showed you some listings filtered by some pretty restrictive criteria in my pp’s that I would never consider bidding on based solely on the listing. Today, I’ll show you some others that also showed up on my pp search and passed my “Title T…
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July 17th, 2008 — , Advice for New Lenders, Common Mistakes, Portfolio Plans, Prosper.com, lending strategy from Jeremy Frazao @ Prosper Lending, My Experience
I would never advise new lenders to use portfolio plans (pp’s) to place bids. Prosper has a steep learning curve and there are many red flags that pp’s just can’t pick up. I do have one active pp that picks up borrowers with a previous Prosper loan, 18…
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July 16th, 2008 — , Advice for New Lenders, Common Mistakes, Prosper.com, lending strategy from Jeremy Frazao @ Prosper Lending, My Experience
I think we all fall into this trap when we begin lending. Perhaps we’re convinced that we can help someone turn their life around or maybe we really like a listing (for whatever reason) but no one else is bidding, so we offer tips to make the listing…
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July 16th, 2008 — , Advice for New Lenders, Common Mistakes, Prosper.com, lending strategy from Jeremy Frazao @ Prosper Lending, My Experience
As I’ve stated in previous posts, Prosper is not a charity. There’s no doubt that some borrowers list on the site with no intention of ever repaying their loan, but lenders have also done their share to draw borrowers seeking a gift instead of a lo…
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July 14th, 2008 — , Advice for New Lenders, Common Mistakes, Prosper.com from Jeremy Frazao @ Prosper Lending, My Experience
Prosper has implemented several changes for the better since I began listing, and some before my time. However, there are also some changes that actually increased the risk for lenders. Some changes that would make the site more attractive to lenders h…
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