Small loans, mostly not for buying homes
Home improvement was 35.1% of its loans, refinances 27.4%, other purposes 12.7% and home purchases only 24.8%. Its typical loan was $55,000, against $115,000 at similar lenders (credit unions making between half and twice as many loans), smaller than at any of them. That is why its 1,666 loans came to only $162.0 million, against $288.7 million at peers.