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20
Mar

Car Title Loan Biz 101

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Car Title Biz Profits

(For substantially more detail, refer to our “Car Title Biz Manual.” We run Boot Camps in a “live” store in Lake Forest, Calif.)

These are AVERAGES based on 274,000 “single payment” car title loans and refinances. (No installment lending)

  • Assumes $50,000 “on the street” in car title loans.
  • Average loan principal: $992.00
  • Dollars per $100 loaned: $23.73
  • Percent of borrowers who refinanced: 36%
  • Average number of refinances per borrower: 4.37

Average loan fees earned per transaction: $235 per car title loan per month
Total fees earned over life of average loan: $1027.40
Average number of loans on the books each month: 50.4
Monthly Fee Income: ($50K on the street)$11,865
Other Income (late fees, remarketed leads, tax prep, scrap gold, bill pay…): $ 1,200
Total Monthly Gross Income: $13,065

Monthly Expenses:

Rent: $715
Advertising: $125
Internet: $30
Sub-prime consumer reporting: $63
Voip Phone: $45
Ach: $42
Website hosting: $30
Efax: $27
Lenders License & fees: $130
Insurance + Business Policy + legal: $150
Bonds: $55
ADT Security: $30
Water: $35
Accounting: $100
Bad debt: $209
Office Expenses: $130
Lending Management Software $135
Bldg Repairs and Maintenance: $45
Travel, Meals & Entertainment: $150
Repo fees: $327
Total Expenses: $2,573
Net before taxes: $10,492/month

NOTE:

* Assumes owner/operator provides labor
* Your task? How much you charge borrowers in your state/province!
* Startup costs vary. Usually between $5,000 & $15,000 (Rent, signage, deposits, licensing…)
* Your results maybe better or worse. Who knows?

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18
Mar

Payday Lending Big Data + New ODFI’s and ACH Processors

Payday Loan Industry

Payday Loan Industry

By: Jer Trihouse. Sub-prime underwriting techniques have evolved dramatically with the entrance of Silicon Valley financed lenders “LendUp,” “ZestFinance,” “Wonga,” and “Think Finance.” Heavy hitters like PayPal founder Peter Thiel, Douglas Merrill and venture firms Sequoia Capital and Google Ventures are making inroads with the 60M+ borrowers seeking payday loan styled products.

Back in 1998, when I opened my first payday loan store in California, our only option was Teletrack. Teletrack focused on aggregating data submitted by brick-n-mortars. If all your local competitors used their service, Teletrack was effective for evaluating your risks and collecting on your defaults down the road.

Today, we have CoreLogic, Clarity, DataX, Microbuilt, Factor Trust… all providing payday loan lenders with tools to evaluate our loan applicants and collecting our money. Add to this tool arsenal, “Big Data.”

Lenders are evaluating a borrower’s Tweets, Facebook updates, Pinterest activities, LinkedIn profile, how much time a borrower spends on a lender’s application page, does a borrower use all CAPS to fill it out, does the borrower jump directly to the $5000 loan principal vs. the $500 loan without reading the “T & C’s” and more.

A few payday loan lenders offer better loan rates to borrowers who sign in to a lender’s website with their Facebook or Twitter account.

Analyzing thousands of data points in less than 3 seconds is now the norm. Add to this the ability to access a borrower’s rent and utility payment history and one would expect fees charged to borrowers will decline. Ah, but don’t jump to this conclusion! In today’s economic environment, few borrowers evaluate fees and rated charged for their loans. Of primary importance is how quickly can the borrower access money with the least amount of hassle. The costs are secondary in importance.

Lenders charge what they can. Borrowers just want emergency money FAST. Rate competition is rare. Particularly after the disruption that’s taken place in the payday loan industry beginning last August.

NOTE: If you’re a lender who has been forced to sit on the sidelines because you’ve “lost” access to your ACH provider, contact Jer at 702-208-6736 [jer@TrihouseConsulting.com] If you’ve “lost” your bank account, contact Jer. There are new ODFI’s and ACH providers ready to serve you. To get the ball rolling quickly, GO HERE: Request for Information. AND, if you represent an ODFI with an interest in the PDL space, reach out to me! It’s a $60B (US) industry.

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15
Mar

1 Simple Payday Loan Collection Tactic

“We’ve been taught to collect only one way. Heavy demand. Lots of thunder. But before you start firing all your collection bullets, how about a different approach?” Steve Hodgdon, founder of Modern Asset Management, reminds all of us to not overly complicate the task of getting borrowers to pay us.

Watch Steve’s short video and put some serious cash in your pocket. [After watching Steve’s collection video, READ THIS!]

The Best Collection Question. The single, best question to get your borrower to TALK to you. Let me know what you think.

Collections driving you nuts? Reach out to Steve.
Steve Hodgdon
President
Modern Asset Management, Inc.
1-415-596-2415 cell
1-800-617-3680 ext 801

14
Mar

Payday Loan Industry CFPB Field Hearing-Nashville

Join us for a field hearing in Nashville, Tennessee on payday loans on Tuesday, March 25 at 11 a.m. CDT. The event will feature remarks from Director Richard Cordray, as well as testimony from consumer groups, industry representatives, and members of the public.

Nashville Public Library Auditorium
615 Church Street
Nashville, TN 37219

This event is open to the public and requires an RSVP.

To RSVP
Email cfpb.events@cfpb.gov with:

  • Your full name
  • Your organizational affiliation (if any)

If you need an accommodation to participate, you can make a request.

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13
Mar

California Payday Loan Proposed Rulemaking by DOB

By: Admin at Trihouse Payday Loan Consulting: The STATE OF CALIFORNIA – DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS OVERSIGHT is seeking consumer and industry comments on proposed rulemaking relevant to the California payday loan industry. The California DOB is accepting comments until May 6th. It’s critical that our industry provide insight regarding the impact and acceptance of these proposed rule changes. Our “haters” have been very active!

INVITATION FOR COMMENTS ON PROPOSED RULEMAKING UNDER THE CALIFORNIA DEFERRED DEPOSIT TRANSACTION LAW

[NOTE: This was brought to my attention by the law offices of San Francisco based Paul Soter. Paul specializes in providing legal counsel for lenders in Calif.]

BACKGROUND

The Department licenses and regulates deferred deposit originators, more commonly known as payday lenders, under the California Deferred Deposit Transaction Law (Financial Code section 23000 et seq.). The Department is considering various changes to the regulations under the California Deferred Deposit Transaction Law and prior to initiating formal rulemaking, recently sought comments on these changes from  interested parties [see Invitation for Comments on Proposed Rulemaking Under the California Deferred Deposit Transaction Law (PRO 04-08), dated May 29, 2013].

Among other things, the potential changes would authorize a licensee to use electronic fund transfers and prepaid debit cards offered by licensees to provide the funds from transactions to customers and to collect payments from them, but would not permit a licensee to use a customer’s debit card, prepaid debit card or credit card in conjunction with a deferred deposit transaction.

QUESTIONS UNDER CONSIDERATION

The Department received a number of written comments on the proposed changes. Some of the comments have offered insights that may suggest the need for further consideration and therefore the Department is requesting additional information. The Department is also seeking specific information on the potential economic and cost impact to businesses and consumersContinue Reading..