Prosper no longer allowing PA residents to lend money

September 16, 2008 · Posted in Personal Finance 

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I haven’t discussed Prosper.com much on this blog, but it is a peer-to-peer lending site that I have been thinking about getting involved with.  I was looking into the tax implications of peer-to-peer lending before getting started, but I guess I don’t have to worry about that anymore.

This morning, I got an e-mail from Prosper - basically, if you’re a resident of PA, you can no longer lend money out or sign up to be a lender.  Seems kind of sudden, despite “ongoing discussions”.  I would be pretty ticked if I were more involved in Prosper.

Are you a PA Prosper lender?  What do you think of the announcement?

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One Response to “Prosper no longer allowing PA residents to lend money”

  1. Tony on September 17th, 2008 10:28 pm

    Thank you so much for posting on this issue!

    I think it is interesting that Pensylvania’s Moto is: “Virtue, liberty, and independence”

    Yet they’ve managed to deprive of PA Propser Lemders of each and everyone of these.

    Please sign our petition at:

    http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/pa4prosperlending/index.html

    Tonys last blog post..How Many Pennsylvanians are Prosper Lenders?

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