Improvements, not purchases
Loans for other purposes made up 53.3% of its book and home-improvement loans 43.3%; refinances were the rest. Its typical loan was $60,000, against $95,000 at similar lenders, the 367 credit unions making between half and twice as many loans. Its typical rate, 6.12%, was lower than at nearly nine in ten of them. Every loan was conventional, as at its peers.