If you are reading this post, I assume you have an amount of money in store and you are considering lending it out as a form of instalment loans or perhaps any other kind. The thing is lending is quite a lucrative business based on the fact that for every penny you lend, you will be expecting a return on each of the penny in form of interest. It should be noted that whatever cash you will be lending to people must be your extra amount plus the fact that you won’t be needing it urgently. Lending is quite risky due to the fact that many borrow and fails to pay back as at when due. Nevertheless, the risk is worth it and there is absolutely no way you will be losing your money unless you are not smart with it. This article tries to posit a few things to consider before lending money:

Know your borrower

            It is very important to know the financial and mental status of your borrower based on the fact that if he’s financially unstable, you risk losing your money and if he’s mentally unstable, you are definitely going to lose your money. As such it is very important to ask necessary questions such as income weekly, monthly and per annum, Also in the course of the discussion, it is very important to pay attention to your potential borrower’s response to answers in order to be able to evaluate his mental status. Alternatively, you could request for last mental evaluation amidst the documents you’ll be requesting (although, many see this offensive).  In addition, be sure that your borrower is capable enough to payback with interest of whatever amount he/she will be borrowing from you.

Consider your interest rate

Interest rate is the amount paid together with the initially loaned amount. In most cases, it is a notable percentage of the initial amount borrowed from you as a lender. When considering lending, it is very important to have a certain percentage of posited for your borrowers and clearly state the percentage clearly in the agreement form. Most times, interest rates are sometimes between 10% to 20% of the amount borrowed. Bottom line is that carefully consider the amount requested and fix the interest rate at an amount you feel is credible enough for such lent money. Most times, instalment loans attract high-interest rates (it all depends on you).

Mode of payment

            It is quite pertinent to posit in the contract agreement, the means via which payment will be made, probably via open check, bank transfer, deposit or perhaps via the debt collector agency. It is very important that this criterion is clearly spelled in order to avoid cumbersome situations when payment time is up. Under several circumstance, when mode of payment isn’t clearly stated the possible outcome is that; you as a lender wouldn’t the mode of payment to anticipate plus the fact that there will be no written evidence stating a particular mode of payment and you are bound to lose a particular court proceeding peradventure a court issue ensues between you and your borrower.

Period of payment

It is a given that loan refund is at intervals, whether weekly, bi-weekly, monthly or yearly is all based on the lender’s discretion. Beyond reasonable doubt, every lender must have a particular focus as to when in particular a proportion or perhaps the whole payment with interest would be made. Many lenders make the mistake of not clearly spelling when the whole payment will be made as such when the borrow didn’t come to terms with the payment agreement term due to oblivion, problems will begin to ensue. As such as a lender, it is very important you strategically consider the period you need your payment made.

Personal interest

            Although unforeseen circumstance may arise which will, therefore, warrant that you make use of your cash, well, irrespective of unforeseen circumstances which you’ll definitely tackle later, deal with the present. Before lending out cash, be very sure you won’t be needing the cash to carry out personal or business task. It is very important to carefully look through your plans and be sure you won’t be needing the money anytime soon, Once this criterion has been fulfilled and you found out there is no other thing left, go ahead and lend out your money.