[MathGuy]

https://www.lendingclub.com/browse/loanDetail.action?loan_id=37751945

You see this types of loans where the purpose is "Credit Card Refinancing" but revolving credit card balance is zero or very low compared with the amount borrowed?

Is the borrower untruthful? Am I missing something here?

Thanks

[avid investor]

Could be the spouse's credit card balances.  That's the problem with all of our attempts to evaluate a loan.  We see only the applicant's credit, debts, and income.  The spouse may be in a very different situation (positive or negative).  Sometimes I would see applicants (when I used to use the browser platform manually), where he/she makes 60k/year but has $2500 in revolving debt payments/month.  I wonder how he/she could possibly be a 700 FICO.  But if the spouse has a paycheck and no debt, or there's other income (child support, alimony, drug money , etc.), they sometimes work out fine.  The reverse is also true.  When I started my IRA account (and had a lot to invest at once), I put a lot more on some "golden" A & B notes that I wouldn't touch these days (because of the return and early payoff potential).  Some of those went belly-up in no time and I got burned.

[Booleans]

I haven't done a new backtest in a while but IIRC debt consolidation/credit card loans performed 1%+ better when the revolving loan balance was greater than the requested loan amount.

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from: Booleans on December 16, 2014, 12:51:48 PM