I enable my partner clients to create high-performing, user-friendly lending systems and platforms with a focus on digital lending and multi-channel delivery via both State & Tribal lending models.
I have nearly 10 years of successful experience building tribal & state-licensed online lending models as CEO, COO:
Highly competent in managing Tribal Council relationships & building infrastructure.
Skilled at capital raises.
Highly proficient at enhancing portfolio ROI’s via AI [Artificial IntelligenceI] machine learning, and transitioning storefront lenders to online lending.
Your subprime consumer borrowers are searching for you. Money lending is scaling up again. Your brick-n-mortar customers are simply not coming back. Embrace digital channels, AI, smartphones… or DIE.
Here are keyword search trends for December 2021 for Lending Money to the Masses [USA only] “Cash Advance,” “Payday Loan,” “Personal Loan,” “Title Loan,” “Car Title Loan.” Need leads? Need consulting? Reach out! Jer@theBusinessOfLending.com Our Team is ready to help! State licensed and & Tribal Model. #Consulting#Lending#Fintech
Just a quick note. Debt buyers are in a state of frenzy. Payday, installment, car title… lenders are working their bad debt longer than normal. Why? Our subprime borrowers are sitting on a ton of cash. Our collection Team is experiencing more than usual success.
As a result, bad debt buyers are paying more for our bad debt!
If you do want to unload any bad paper you’ve been working in house, let me know. I’ll connect you direct.
Meanwhile, new loan originations continue to trend up. FOMO about omicron variant potential lockdowns, inflation, record low employment, record new business formations by sole-proprietors… continue.
December is OURS!
Jer
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“FACT: Two-thirds of individuals who use both credit cards and payday loans have at least $1,000 of credit card liquidity left when taking out a payday loan.”
The term “Payday Loan” comes with more negative connotations than the term “carpetbagger” did after the Civil War. Our industry, “the business of lending to the masses” has evolved from old-school, analog face-to-face paper transactions, to digital customer transactions including acquisition, underwriting, funding, servicing, and collecting while reinventing the nomenclature from payday loans to installment loans, line-of-credit loans, early access to wages, buy-now-pay-later, pawn…
The bottom line? 50%+ of households are one paycheck away from being homeless.
This behavior – resorting to costly alternative loan products by consumers rather than maxing out their credit card – is puzzling because payday loans carry very high-interest rates [when erroneously computed as an Annual Percentage Rate. Much like choosing to take a cab/Uber from New York to Los Angeles], compared to 10 to 30 percent APR’s on credit cards.
This “mistake” is costly: these people could have saved $200+ annually by borrowing up to their credit card limits before taking out payday loans.
“This phenomenon has been termed the “Payday Loan Puzzle.”
Why do households take out expensive payday loans when they have far cheaper credit options available?
“Various behavioral explanations, such as self-control problems and financial illiteracy, have been put forward. In this paper, we propose a novel rational explanation for the payday loan puzzle, inspired by the following interview of an actual payday lender:
“Why are people taking out [payday] loans instead of using their credit cards?” Tim Ranney told me, “This guy was implying that these people weren’t smart enough to make the ‘right’ decision. I laughed in his face.‘They’re protecting the card! ’I told him. […]” Whereas failure to repay a payday loan won’t affect a consumer’s credit score, failure to repay a credit card will.— Lisa Servon (2017): The Unbanking of America.
“Our proposed “reputation protection” hypothesis is that people do not exhaust their credit card limits because they want to protect their credit scores. A credit score is a statistic computed by credit bureaus to access a person’s default risk.”
“Borrowing or defaulting on credit cards will affect one’s credit score, while payday loan lenders in the U.S. do not report defaults to the traditional credit bureaus!”
Reader, Click here to read this academic report in its entirety.
To be successful as a lender – or in any other entrepreneurial endeavor – you only have to be good at a few things:
· Picking the right business niche
· Raising money
· Hiring good people
· Ability to iterate through your challenges
· Be Bold. Go where others fear to tread.
Let’s get real! Lending money to the masses can be very profitable!
We are rapidly becoming a nation of “haves” and “have not’s.” The average U.S. worker is paid $23/hour. In real terms, $23/hour has the same purchasing power as $6/hour 40 years ago. The result? Staggering household debt! [Yes, I know! Many of you are reading this Course as you sit in Australia, Europe, the Islands, China… It’s the same theme everywhere. The business of lending money.]
80% of the U.S. is living paycheck to paycheck! [CareerBuilder.com] One in three people are subprime borrowers.[<620 Credit Score.]
Two in five U.S. adults do not have access to $400 cash immediately. Not in a bank account, not on a credit card, not under the mattress… They’ve already borrowed from friends, family, their church… Nowhere to turn but to YOU!
What’s this mean to you? OPPORTUNITY!
The team at Trihouse will teach you how to loan money to the masses without getting your ass handed back to you. Yes, for many of you, reading this tomb will be PAINFUL! It’s the price for entry and success.
The loan products discussed here are installment loans, payday loans, signature loans, car title loans, personal cash advances, merchant cash advances, business to business loans… Call them what you may. All of them can be very profitable.
Real-world example?
In California and Texas, we’re charging $15 to $30+ for every 14-day loan we make. [Depends on the state licensing model used or the Native American Tribe we collaborate with.]
That’s a 400%+ annual percentage rate (APR) for a borrower to use our money for two weeks!
We’ve had stores reach $10,000 in loans after only being opened 3 weeks; within a year, $100,000 on a good week and generating $50,000/month in fees.
Online lending?
Sure. Lenders have costs. Payroll costs, utility costs, website costs, merchant processing, rent, legal, taxes… but you get the picture.
A lender’s inventory is MONEY!
It’s not flowers that die on you. It’s not food that rots. It’s MONEY, MOOLAH, COIN, DINERO, SCRATCH, DOLLARS, EUROS… NICE!!
DONE! I’ve established that the business of lending money to the masses can be very profitable!
Raising Money
This is a mindset. It’s about the presentation. Practice getting good at distilling your idea into a bite-sized amount. Get your business launched.
I’m not talking about immediately achieving a huge scale. Just get your loan business open for business and fund a few loans. Storefront, Internet, monoline, combo… just fund a few loans!
Next?
Friends, family, peers, members of your network… will find out what you’re doing.
They will want to learn more.
Don’t be shocked when they say something along the lines of, “I have $20K sitting in the bank earning 1% per year before taxes and inflation. Could you put my money to work in your new business?
Of course, you can! Offer them 6%, 8%, 10%+ per year. You can afford it when you’re grossing 500%+ APR’s on your loan portfolio!
How to Loan Money to the Masses Profitably. A few words about small-dollar lending in today’s environment by Jer Ayles, Partner at Trihouse Consulting. We began our journey as Lenders! We’ve “worked” deep in the weeds. Zero academics here!
PAYDAY LOANS: THE BUSINESS OF LENDING TO THE MASSES
Several industry-sponsored studies have surfaced recently to determine who gets payday loans today. They are interesting but offer few surprises. The studies simply emphasize it’s the same demographic with a twist. Gig Workers are now in the mix. Again, rather obvious.
In a nutshell, THERE IS NO MAGIC to identifying the payday loan demographic. Payday loan borrowers are the 99%. Retail, health workers, service workers, office, administrative, gig…
Here are a few takeaways.
Payday loans are used by people who need CASH FAST and lack other financial options for repairing their car, keeping the lights on, paying for prescriptions, filling the pantry… in other words, unexpected expenses.
So, what’s good about payday loans? Virtually anyone who can breathe & has proof of a regular income and a bank account can gain access to cash when facing a sudden cash crunch.
What’s bad about payday loans? They are not amortized. The payday loan borrower must come up with the loan principal on their next payday.
The majority of payday loan borrowers do not abuse this feature. Say they live in California. They borrow $100. In reality, the payday loan lender advances the borrower $85. two weeks later, on payday, the payday loan borrower returns to the payday loan brick-n-mortar store or the internet portal and pays back the $85 loan principal + $15 fee. No biggie. That’s the legal rate in California for payday loans.
But, of course, there are always borrowers on the margin who abuse this simple transaction. Two weeks go by, the payday loan borrower is still in over their head and they pay the $15 BUT fail to add any $$ towards the original $85 loan principal. This goes on for weeks! Week after week, they pay the $15. Before long, they’ve paid $300/$400+ in $15 increments and still owe the payday loan lender the original $85 loan principal. NOT A HAPPY ENDING.
At some point, the majority of payday loan lenders implement a policy of insisting the payday loan borrower begin adding a minimum of $20/week to the $15 fee in an effort to force the payday loan borrower to pay down the loan principal. It’s simply the right thing to do!
Back to alternatives for solving the emergency financial challenges faced by potential payday loan borrowers; their ONLY alternatives are:
Friends & family [Usually, they’ve already hit up friends & family. not an option + embarrassing]
Their church [Rarely a viable alternative + embarrassing]
Bounce a check and incur a $35 NSF fee [Result is a bank “loan” having a minimum 1800% APR & potential Check System database entry. That results in their NEVER having the ability to participate in the banking system again! BAD!!]
Get a payday loan [Typically a 400% – 600% APR] online or at a Storefront location
Go without lights, car repair… – lose their job [Not a good choice], forgo that prescription [Ugh!], etc.
Go hungry/suck it up
Borrower from their employer
NOTE: Quite frankly, PAYDAY LOAN products are dinosaurs! Virtually all forward-thinking payday loan lenders have evolved to various types of “installment loans, line-of-credit loans, even buy-now-pay-later” [BNPL] forms of payment. [These BNPL financial products are often worse than old school payday loans because consumers OFTEN fail to realize the payments eventually do come due and they simply forgot! The free interest evaporates and the late fees kick in. It gets REAL UGLY fast. But, this issue is another Post.]
Fact #1: The overwhelming majority of payday loan recipients (82%) have full-time jobs. When you add the number of recipients that work part-time or are already retired, that accounts for well over 90% of recipients.
Fact #2: Payday loan borrowers work in sales, office, gig jobs, food service, and healthcare support.
fACT 3: The most common employer of payday loan borrowers is Walmart, followed by Kaiser, Target, Home Depot, major restaurant employers, Uber, and Amazon
Fact 4: The majority of payday loan recipients are employed full time
Fact 5: Payday loan borrowers use payday loans to cover the timing mismatch of having an expense coming in before the paycheck arrives to cover it.
To the point, I need to buy an LMS company. The IDEAL LMS candidate has an existing portfolio of storefronts offering payday, installment, line-of-credit… loans.
Our goal is to acquire the clients/Lenders of our target LMS provider. We will then easily enable these Lenders to convert their face-to-face/storefront transactions with their borrowers to online, digital acquisition, underwriting, funding, collecting…
To be clear, if you are an existing LMS with Lender/Clients, we want to acquire you! We are a State-of-the-Art Fintech LMS provider.
Arad Levertov is the founder of Sunbit an Ex-Enova employee; a Buy Now Pay Later platform [BNPL}. He shares with my mentor how he did it! Today’s guest was new to the US but had a great job and was making good money. So imagine how surprised and embarrassed he was when he was turned down for a Costco credit card when shopping with his family.
That experience led him to look deeper into the market and see that there was a big opportunity to make credit more available for non-discretionary purchases. [This link is to a Podcast provided by a mentor of mine, Andrew Warner at Mixergy.]
CURO, a publicly traded lender, originates $1 Billion dollars [+/-] in consumer loans every 3 months. They have approximately a 3% market share. What's this mean for you? OPPORTUNITY!
The near-prime will soon be the subprime. Demand for loans of $500 to $5000+ continues to escalate. Opportunities are boundless for lenders.
As a lender, your inventory is MONEY! Not tulips dying. Not bananas rotting. The 99% will ALWAYS need money. Debt is the reality of living in America.
What do we do? We teach entrepreneurs how to lend money to the Masses. We lend money. We offer Courses, consulting, investments, access to our vast network of vendors, lawyers, Instant Bank Verification, payment processors, website designers, and underwriting...
We are 100% focused on the business of lending to the masses! Installment loans, car title loans, payday loans, line of credit loans...