Small loans across four purposes
Its loans split almost evenly: refinances 30.2%, purchases 28.8%, home improvement 27.7% and other purposes 13.3%. Its typical loan was $105,000, against $205,000 for similar lenders (national banks making between half and twice as many loans), among the lowest of them. The weight in home-improvement and other-purpose lending, which are usually smaller loans, may account for much of that. All its loans were conventional.