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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Hello, my name is DALE Schwetz. I am the owner of Polo Star LLC. LenCred has been amazing for me and my business and my whole staff. Jerry Engert and his team have been fantastic!!!!! From getting fun... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I have started the process of getting a line of credit from Lencred. I spoke to a gentleman named Joel Wilson who was helpful, personable, and kind. He obviously loves what he does. He provided me w... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

My experience working closely with Lencred has been nothing but stellar. When you encounter a business that does what they say they are going to do, and truly wants to get to know their client, you ha... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I’ve had two great experiences with LenCred (2016 & 2018) and its tremendous staff. My Finance Advisor, Jerry Engert, was exceptional as well as his staff Tiffany Cope. Mr. Engert was “spot on” with h... See more

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LenCred helps entrepreneurs and small business owners obtain low-cost financing and assists businesses with high-cost debt to improve and/or restructure their debts to more cash-flow friendly financing that reduces interests expenses. Startups in their first 3-5 years can obtain between $25,000 - $250,000 in low-cost financing that doesn't require collateral or financials and that can be used to start, build, and grow their businesses. Established companies can get even more, all WITHOUT needing to pledge your precious collateral.


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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Lots of promises, no results

Lots of promises, no results. A little background here, our company has two business owners with 800+ credit scores, going on our fifth year in business and a revenue of close to 200k a year. We reached out to LenCred for assistance with a line of credit. We were made the promises, but have seen no results. All they have been able to accomplish is get us 3, 0% interest credit cards, which would have taken us about 10 minutes to apply for online. We were however, easily able to obtain lines of credit once we stopped waiting on LenCred and just called a few banks. They have no connections that I am aware of and we have received no benefit.

December 18, 2021
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Reply from LenCred

Brandon – we are sorry to hear about your frustrations. It’s never fun or part of what hard working teams want to have happen when a client is unhappy & it’s certainly even worse when they take those concerns to a public forum. We are a team that cares deeply about the work we do but we cannot create a funding solution for anyone that their own income & credit qualifications don’t allow them to obtain. This has been frustrating for us just like it’s been frustrating for Mr. Bennett. While we agree that Mr. Bennett has good credit, we do get permission from our clients to perform soft credit pulls & then our algorithm that has been developed over the last 6½ years gives them a funding range for what to expect as part of their funding plan. In our several months of working with him or trying to work with him we performed several soft credit pulls & FICO score checks &, in that time, we’ve never seen an 800 FICO score, nor do we have this partner of his who he mentioned. We would be happy to work with his partner if he wants & would coordinate that with us.

Back to our algorithm & funding ranges we give our clients before they engage with us, with our Funding Express plans we even show people EXACTLY how they compare to other people who have the same Income & Credit levels that they have. This helps us, quite honestly, to avoid situations where people feel misled because they are seeing data-driven results of many others just like them. It shows them what the average funding levels are, the low & high results, & it’s an attempt to help people better know what to expect. What is misleading about this review is that we got him MORE money than we told him we would get him in the first 90 days of working with us. BUT we only completed half of his first funding round & we planned to do 3-4 funding rounds with him during the year. Our processor made four follow up requests to finish the 2nd half of his first plan. He was called or emailed on 6/3, 6/4, 6/8, & again on 7/8 in an effort to continue moving him forward. He was unresponsive.

Even though Brandon wanted something he wasn’t pre-qualified for & that wasn’t part of his funding plan that was put together by a team of experts that collectively has over 20 years of business financing experience, we did agree to review his financials to see if something was missed and if he could get financing he was requesting. Upon review of those financials, we let him know that we did not see any unsecured business lines of credit that were not credit card based for which he would qualify. As a company that has done several million dollars in non-credit card based unsecured business lines of credit, we have a fairly good handle on how to get that product or solution. Anyone with experience in business finance knows that a solution like that is tough to get as a real estate investor like Brandon & that when a company is in a better industry & qualifies for a product like that…well…they know that those lenders have tight underwriting criteria & that they normally will only lend about 10% of the top line revenues so with Brandon being in an industry that is high risk & for having revenues below the mark it just wasn’t a fit. He didn’t like that, & we never had a chance to continue helping him with the financing he did qualify for. In our 13+ years of working with thousands of real estate investors & doing over $250 million in financing for them we would LOVE it if there were the kind of bank loan options Brandon claims are out there for real estate investors.

If Brandon was correct that he was “easily able to obtain lines of credit” by just calling a few banks, then we commend him. Ironically, in 13+ years of working with entrepreneurs & small business owners, we rarely hear from anyone that they were able to “easily obtain lines of credit” from a bank.

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Expert funding specialist, top notch customer service!

Jordan is amazing! Got me over $100k in business credit in just a few months while improving my personal credit to over 800 FICO score. He's quick to answer my questions and punctual in our monthly meetings. Very easy to work with and a great communicator. I highly recommend working with him and would do it again in a heartbeat. Thank you!

December 14, 2021
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Loan Sharks - DO NOT ENGAGE

Lencred is a subsidiary to Monterey Financial Services Inc. (Loan Sharks - LOOK THEM UP) .

I used Flex Capital's, and Michael Higgin's "services" which consisted of smooth talking and passing me off to Lencred. He mentioned all the trustpilot reviews of Lencred. There were hundreds of glowing reviews which built my confidence in them. However, I would guess that these are fake reviews. Then when I engaged with Lencred, they filled out many credit card applications on my behalf. I was assured by Michael and Lencred that this will affect my credit score minimally "with an average of an 8 point drop." I experienced a significant drop - at the start my score was around 760, and last month a lender told me it was 614 citing all the new accounts and recent inquiries. To make matters worse, when a LenCred representative applied for a Discover card on my behalf, it triggered a fraud investigation that wound up with Discover shutting down my longest lasting credit card.

After realizing that this was hurting me more than helping me, I asked Lencred Compliance to cancel my participation in the program and for a refund. Lencred insisted they did nothing wrong citing their 7-page, rock solid agreement which absolved them of any responsibility. The fine print of this agreement also gave you a 72-hour window for a refund. Why such a short time period for such a "successful" and "well-liked" program? Because it's a $4k money grab with "services" that should be illegal.

My advice: engage a local bank/credit union for a personal/business loan, or if times are dire, a private lender who won't report to the credit bureaus.

December 8, 2021
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Reply from LenCred

It's always an unfortunate thing when any client is unhappy. Being in business for over 13 years like we have, we try very hard to hire great people, build great software, and put good processes and systems in place so that our services can be delivered consistently and at scale. Reviews like this one and the several others Josh has posted on various sites are always disappointing to our team of hard working people. We have well over 1,000 active clients who our 40+ employees work hard every day to serve and we diligently follow our agreements and the plans that our valued clients are given before they make their buying decision.

For Josh, when we moved him to funding he did not yet have his business and his entity set up so it makes it tough to get funding for a business owner when they haven't set up their entity yet and didn't want to do so. When we talk about our "average" fundings we get our clients we only include funding totals for our clients who have their EIN set up. Since that's 99% of our clients it means that people like Josh who don't have an entity as a business owner are rare. We encourage them to set up their entity for obvious reasons and we offer a discounted solution for them with a company that has very good service and fair pricing and that was all part of Josh's funding plan that we recommended before he decided to hire us. It's strategy 2a on his written, Custom Strategic Plan.

When he wouldn't set up the entity we sent him to funding with a modified plan that is not at all what it would have and could have been if he would have followed our plan that he had from the beginning. Sometimes when you try to help rather than sticking with what you know is best it can work against you. In this case it seems it has.

After Josh's funding round when he was only able to obtain a few approvals, and he quickly became disappointed. He stopped returning our calls and showing up for his appointments with our team. We hit curve balls all the time with clients. It's part of life and it's why the Federal Reserve published in their small business credit survey that the majority of small business owners are unsuccessful getting all the funding they are looking for. Our data, our CSP's (Custom Strategic Plans), and our technology help to reduce the number of small business owners who are disappointed but things like this do happen. In Josh's case, it could have likely been avoided if we would have had him set up his entity as the plan stated.

There are several parts of this review that are also factually inaccurate so that's also frustrating when someone says things that are false, not accurate, and misleading to any reader. We are not and never have been a subsidiary of Monterey Financial Services. I'm not sure why someone would attempt to say something so far from the truth but we will let you decide after you've read our response.

As far as Josh's credit score drop we only perform soft credit pulls for our clients and we've certainly never seen his score drop as much as he's indicating. He could be comparing a FICO score to a non-FICO based score (we call them FAKO scores) but we did point out to Josh in one of his 2 emails he sent us after his funding round that his score would have been impacted by the big increase in spending he did and the 2 cards he maxed out as well as the card he went over the credit limit on. We have a clause in our contracts called the Treat Your Credit as an Asset clause and so our plans are all put in place to help our small business clients to separate their personal and business credit. We can help Josh with that but he has been doing his own thing and stopped communicating with us.

Josh's Discover card being closed down is something that isn't a good thing and is a bummer. For context, we don't know why it got shut down and Josh hasn't provided us anything from them to better understand. It was his lowest credit limit card by far - his next highest credit limit is 7 times higher than that one so his average credit line has increased. Additionally, his average age of file on his revolving accounts dropped from 4.04 years to 3.68 years.

There is no "fine print" in our agreements. We use the same font size and style throughout. We have different types of solutions so our engagement with some clients are shorter than others. With Josh, he chose a 12 month engagement and that plan brings with it a 5 day right of rescission. We have very few cancellations and if anyone doesn't think they want a 6 or 12 month plan then they can choose our Funding Only option where they just get funding and nothing else. For most people that's not what's best for them because they miss so many of the basics of having excellent personal and business credit but it is an option.

We would be happy to pick back up with Josh and we are happy to reconsider his Custom Strategic Plan and see if any portions of it need to be changed or updated. However, at this time, the majority of the challenges are the result of NOT following the plan; Josh will likely get better results and more funding if he's willing to follow the plan we gave him before he hired us.

As Josh stated we are also more than happy to provide all documentation and move to an independent arbitrator to resolve the matter if Josh does not wish to work with us directly.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This company is nothing but a royal…

This company is nothing but a royal pain. They make appointments and then have a third party call to change the appointment down the road 3 weeks. When you have a financial hardship they threaten to sue you instead of working with you. When you try to reach out to them they don{t take your call. Typical attitude when they get their money and forget who you are type attitude.

December 6, 2021
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Unsatisfied Client

Was promised funding of $110k and did not receive 1/10th of that i want to get out of my contract do to breach of contract or get an settlement amount. Keenan 313-685-1565

December 2, 2021
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

My Round 1 Funding Experience

My experience with Lencred has been an overall good one thus far. Jordan Thomas has been great to work with. He is very knowledgeable about the process and did a really great job onboarding me to the program. I ran into a small communication hiccup since starting. I contacted Jordan and he delivered once again with ownership and corrective action. He introduced Kattie Garrett and she did not disappoint. Kattie's customer support, prompt responsiveness and engagement has been stellar. I really appreciated her for stepping in to the new relationship, gathering facts, feedback and implementing corrective action immediately. Jordan and Kattie have worked together as a team to support me in Round 1 of the funding process and I must say they have more than exceeded my expectations. I will tell anyone....it works, if you work it. Keep up the great work team. We Rock Together!!

November 19, 2021
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Jordan is a gem!

Jordan is a gem!! He works hard to get the job done and is always available to his clients (me) and has helped with all of my questions.

November 11, 2021
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Lencred Experience

Jordan Thomas and the Lencred Team have provided excellent service and coaching to establish and strengthen both my personal and business credit. I would recommend their service.

October 29, 2021
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Creative and customer focused

I've been in the LenCred program for almost two months and have been impressed with the service/advice that Jordan has provided and the results of the program. He's very thorough and creative meeting the needs of my new business, and helping navigate the unfamiliar business credit landscape.

Very satisfied

October 28, 2021
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I signed up with LenCred almost a year…

I signed up with LenCred almost a year ago. I'm glad I did because not only did they get me all of the funding that they promised, they actually far exceeded the amount. That's probably because my credit score has increased by over 100 points since I started working with them. They also educated me in so many ways which actually helped ensure I didn't make the mistakes that many new entrepreneurs make. It is well worth the money and my return on investment was extraordinary. I highly recommend LenCred for any new or early stage company to get started on the right foot financially.

October 15, 2021
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Though it was difficult for Jordan and…

Though it was difficult for Jordan and I to get ahold of one another. One thing I appreciated was Jordan’s patience and willingness to do everything he could to make sure that I was right on track. I was able to learn and understand so much after our talk and I’m truly excited to see where my business will go. Thank you everyone at Len Cred. Thank you Jordan for being so awesome!

October 15, 2021
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Awesome company!

I have had a great experience working with the LenCred team. Jordan has been instrumental leading my funding plan and it has been a great addition to my new business. The entire team has been easy to work with and super informative, giving me a wealth of knowledge in the credit and funding space. I would recommend for any small business owner or real estate investor looking to build business credit or obtain additional funding.

October 14, 2021
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Mandel Whitehead signed me up for…

Mandel Whitehead signed me up for program giving me all false information after signing up there is no one to actually give training and once the training starts you will hear complete different things then what was told to you before you sign up ? and when i am not happy and requested for refund they said no refund but before i signed up they said 30 days refund not they will take my $7800 by cheating me .

October 7, 2021
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Highly Recommend!

I am a Business Loan Broker who offers LenCred’s BOSS programs to my clients, among other funding solutions. I have also been through this program myself. Based on my client’s experiences and my own personal experience, I can confidently say that the only time this program does not help you is when you do NOT execute the strategies in this program. If you listen to what your Business Finance Strategist, Business Credit Advisor, and Personal Credit Advisor tell you, you will be successful! No doubt in my mind. No company does what LenCred does. Other companies do parts of what LenCred does, but none are doing what these guys are doing. They are an innovative brand that just keeps getting better each day. I know they are working on additional game changing projects. Can’t wait to see what they bring to market next. Highly recommended!

October 5, 2021
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

LenCred is the best source for business credit!

I'm an independent business loans broker and represent over 20 lenders. The most frequent inquiries are fast loans for startups, and I have 3 lenders in that space with origination fees of 10%-15% and interest rates of 9%-15% and up.
Here is my experience when I started offering LenCred as an option. Comparing all 4 options side-by-side, 90% of my clients choose LenCred, for the following reasons:

1. no origination fees
2. zero-interest for the first year
3. renewal rates can be driven down to 3%-4%
4. 75% of clients need credit repair - this is provided at a wholesale rate and done quickly by a third party
5. a genuine commitment to help clients secure the cheapest funding in the market (i.e., lay a secure financial foundation for their success)
6. relationship-driven, not transaction-driven

If your hair is on fire and you need a loan yesterday, this won't work for you.
If you want to invest in your future with a trustworthy partner, you can't do better than LenCred.

September 30, 2021
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Read this review!! I just got paid from this process!!! I haven’t found anything better!!!!

I have used this program and process for 3 different companies. They have created a system that has really worked on stuff to help my business that I never even thought of. I have literally tried to find other funding companies get me more money since getting access to money can make the difference of staying in business or not and let me tell anyone reading this. ANY other company I inquired with wanted to charge me 10% to 15% of the money they got me. The lowest I got from a lending company was 9.9% and they said if they got me under $40,000 I would pay 11.9% and if they got me no money I would have to pay $795 for taking there time! What kind of crap is that! This is a flat fee, and it’s the lowest price I have gotten to get me to the money. What I also thought made this whole process better is they will actually help you fix the stuff holding you back personally and business wise. No one else even mentioned it. So happy with this company is an understatement. When ever I call them, they answer and help me every time. I have some that helps me on my personal credit and making sure everything looks good there. I have someone on business credit and they showed me exactly what I need to do to build my paydex score and the intelliscore. Then the funding person takes over and gets me my money! I paid 5k for all of that!!! Im telling you right now, LenCred is the truth!!!!!!!!!!!

September 29, 2021
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