Aug 26, 2013
It has been over eleven months since I opened my Lending Club account and started experimenting in the field of peer-to-peer lending. While I have been providing monthly updates on my little headquarters page, many have asked that I write a new post to summarize the results. So here’s the summary: With an annualized return…
Can you Really earn 10% Annual Returns These Days!?! Find out at the MMM Lending Club Experiment Headquarters. In September of 2012, I started making a series of investments in the relatively new field of peer-to-peer lending, choosing a company called Lending Club as the destination. The goal is to see if the higher returns…
Adventurous readers may recall that we are in the middle of a Lending Club Experiment – on September 24th, I posted an article describing my first foray into peer-to-peer lending and promised to keep you updated on the progress of the investment. At the time I invested $10,000, and distributed it mostly among the higher-yielding…
This Mr. Money Mustache blog recently blew past its fifth birthday. In real life, things haven’t changed all that much: I live just a couple of blocks from where I lived in 2011. We are still retired and yet busily employed raising one boy. Still have the same cars and the same level of annual…
Want to hear something really weird? All this time, I’ve been writing this blog about financial independence, a term and movement that is often credited to the 1993 book “Your Money or Your Life”. I had been assuming that Mr. Money Mustache himself was at least partly motivated by a long-ago reading of that book…
In April of 2016, I invested $10,000 into the new field of peer-to-peer real estate loans. I chose PeerStreet as the most promising subject at the time, and wrote about it in this article: High Efficiency Real Estate Investing with PeerStreet This tracks the results of the investment and keep up with news on the company…
