Prosper, along with a few other websites (Learn more about Person to Person Lending) are advertising the ability to do people-to-people lending in order to make it better for the lender in terms of making the money and the borrower in terms of getting a lower rate. It is an amazing concept to me really. It removes the banks from the equation and although the loans are generally small (under 10K) there are a few that are large amounts.
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Written by Jed Pittman on November 2nd, 2006 with 3 comments.
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Each month I sift through my bills and wonder when I’ll stop receiving a statement from my student loan lender. When I graduated from college, I looked ahead to my future feeling confident. Then reality hit. I realized that I had thousands of dollars to pay back for my education. How would I pay it? How could I live with this debt? Would my children be heading off to college when I finally paid it off?
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Written by Amanda Keefer on November 2nd, 2006 with 2 comments.
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