janis, Author at Investing small

Kuetzal fraud?

December 12, 2019 janis Kuetzal, P2P lending

Wanted to warn my readers who might have not already heard of issues around Kuetzal. You can read more here – https://explorep2p.com/alborg-petrol/ and here – https://financiallyfree.eu/concerns-about-kuetzal-is-kuetzal-a-scam. Several projects which are posted on their website seems like a fraud and if you have invested with them I am recommending to withdraw […]

Summary of returns November 2019

December 7, 2019 janis Envestio, Mintos, Monthly summary, P2P lending

Thank you for your patience for this monthly post. I assume you also have rather busy schedules so I will try to keep it as short as possible. Please find returns of November 2019 below. This month shows a good performance in interest income which I am really happy about. […]

Strategy for Mintos by the end of 2019

November 22, 2019 janis Mintos, P2P auto-invest, P2P lending

Recently there are several news about defaulted loan originators in Mintos. This has happened in the past and more importantly will happen in the future. We as investors need to keep ourselves updated and minimize risks. Some say – change platform – I believe in picking more conservative auto invest […]

Summary of returns October 2019

November 7, 2019 janis Monthly summary, P2P lending

This month hit hard for our family and will always be remembered as one of the hardest months of our lives. All I can say is cherish each moment you have with your loved ones. For this reason I thank you all for being patient for this post and I […]

Crowdestor BuyBack guarantee – max cap?

October 10, 2019 janis BuyBack, Crowdestor, P2P lending, P2P review

What exactly Crowdestor guarantee with the sum of BuyBack they mention in their web page? What would happen if one of the projects default? Or multiple? These are the type of questions I will try to give an answer in this post. Communication with Crowdestor I wanted to know more […]

Winner of 25 EUR giveaway No. 2

October 8, 2019 janis Giveaway Raffle, P2P lending

It felt like a short month and as promised, here is the winner of 25 EUR giveaway No. 2. There were 48 subscribers (-1 because I excluded myself). This is 47 competing in total. I contacted the lucky winner (ivan****com) and sent the prize to him. Here is what the […]

Summary of returns September 2019

October 4, 2019 janis Monthly summary, P2P lending

Autumn came with rainy days and I can see that majority of people are rushing back to work to their offices. Waking up and going to bed in the dark. Will need to get used to that again. But now it is time to make a summary of returns for […]

How to share Mintos strategy

September 30, 2019 janis Mintos, P2P auto-invest, P2P lending

This post will be rather short on giving the answer on how to share a Mintos strategy for easy auto invest portfolio creation. Most of you might already have used this, however, wanted to put it out anyways for someone who is not that familiar with the strategy setup. Three […]

Crowdlending comparison (update September 2019)

September 21, 2019 janis P2P lending, P2P review

It is time to freshen up the crowdlending comparison table which had a major update in July 2019. These were the previous scores. Hereby the new comparison table. Below you can see the score change table with the change column. Conclusion Mintos dominance Most of the changes relate to the […]

Crowdestate review after 1 year of investing

September 8, 2019 janis Crowdestate, P2P lending, P2P review

In this post I will outline my review of Crowdestate platform after one year of investing. It is one of the 5 platforms I chose to invest 1000 EUR in September of 2018. The short version. I am not sure if I was greedy or unlucky or combination of both, […]