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Welcome to the 2025 D Bank Connect in Miami.

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I'm now joined with Michelle Ramirez

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with Len Bug. How are you?

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I'm good. How are you? Great.

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Tell me about today's show so far for you.

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So today is my first show.

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I got here a little while ago, so, um, definitely fun.

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I've, you know, met a couple of people that I work

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with already, so it's great to, you know, put a face

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to the name, you know, so

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it's been going really well so far. I'm,

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That's what de banked events are all

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about, getting people together.

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Yeah, yeah, for sure.

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I'm like so excited to go

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around and, you know, just network.

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How's, what's new for Lend Bug this year? So

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We are a private direct lender.

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Um, we work with our money.

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Uh, we don't pull from anything else,

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so right now our guidelines are really, you know,

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like moving with the industry.

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So that's recently what we've been doing.

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And where do you see things moving this year?

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Uh, honestly, I couldn't predict, you know,

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the MCA business is always

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changing, you know, last six months.

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Were way different from what it is now,

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so I'm just excited to see how it goes.

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Hopefully all the way up.

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Yeah. Yeah. Hopefully we can always hope for that.

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What type of trends are you seeing happening in

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the industry these days?

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Hmm. A lot of, Hmm. That's a tough one.

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I think there's a lot of, you know, you know, new lenders,

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you know, really competing with them, seeing

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what they're doing versus what we're doing

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and, you know, trying to meet that middle ground so

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that we all can make some money.

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Of course. Um,

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but recently, that's what I've been seeing so far. Yeah.

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And hopefully more things, more good things to come. Yeah,

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Of course. We're always hoping

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for the best.

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Yeah. Well, thank you for spending some time with me.

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And there's still more to come from Miami.