Keep away. The loans are often bad. Defaults, fore...

Keep away. The loans are often bad. Defaults, foreclosures, late payments, short sales. And when a loan is past due for the principal to be paid off because its term is over, but the mortgagor continues to make interest payments, they list the loan as current even though you don't get the principal returned until who-knows-when, if at all. Worse than junk.