If your student loans happen to get bought by FedLoan Servicing I have one word of advice for you: run! Run far, far away! But you probably have the same stories about your loan servicing company, so is there anywhere you can actually run to? It has been nothing but
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New Student Loan Agreement on the Horizon
It seems like Congress is finally closing in on an agreement to and while it doesn’t solve the underlying problem (the easy source of money giving colleges an incentive to keep increasing tuition), they claim it will solve the problem of certain interest rates jumping from 3.4% to 6.8%. This
Continue readingStudent Loan Progress – July 2013
As I was preparing to write this post, I was starting to feel a little burnt out about my debt again. But I have to realize that I’m making progress and keep pushing towards my goal to be debt free. I’m treating it like like as much of an emergency
Continue readingA new way to approach student debt?
It looks like Oregon is on it’s way to attempting to solve the student loan crisis in their state. But just how feasible is their solution? The basic concept of the plan is that you would not receive any traditional loans and you would not pay any tuition. You heard that
Continue readingStudent Loan Progress – June 2013
Another month, another round of student loan payments. Unfortunately this month ended up being a little strange in my student loan payments, due to circumstances beyond my control. I was not able to put as much money towards my loans as I was expecting. But first I’m going to start
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