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Dangerous Default Student Loan Pitfalls – Tips and Advice to Avoid Problems!

December 30, 2010 Student Loans No Comments

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The student loans just like the other forms of financial aid are a service that is subject for repayment. However, although aware of such fact, many borrowers still fall to the trap of walking away from student loan debt which then results to series of consequences. They tend to ignore their being summoned to enter repayment usually either 90 or 120 days after separating from school or after dropping below half-time enrollment. With this, the loans remain delinquent for 270 days or become 270 days past due at any time, leading the loans to “default” status.

Student Loan Default, Defined

Defaulted student loans are actually defaults made by the borrower to the creditor of the terms and conditions of the student loan contract. It is usually caused by the act of escaping from debts, leading to unfavorable consequences on the part of the borrower.

Basically, prior to the declaration of student loan default is the delinquency period. At this period, the lenders of student loans authorized under Title IV of the Higher Education Act will exhaust all efforts to find and contact the borrower. If the lender’s efforts of locating the debtor are unsuccessful, the loan will then be placed in default. It will be turned over to either the state guaranty agency or the Department of Education. And, once the loan enters the default status, the maturity date is accelerated, making the overall payment in full due right away.

Dangerous Default Student Loan Pitfalls – Tips and Advice to Avoid Problems!

CRAMDOWN: Renegotiating Mortgages, Car Loans, Student Loans, Credit Card Debt, Taxes & Other Obligations in the Age of Wall Street Bailouts

December 29, 2010 Student Loans No Comments

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This fall, Silver Lake Publishing is “crashing” into retail stores a new book on loan mods and other renegotiations. CRAMDOWN: Renegotiating Mortgages, Car Loans, Student Loans, Credit Card Debt, Taxes & Other Obligations in the Age of Wall Street Bailouts follows in the series that has included the national bestsellers Identity Theft and Scams & Swindles. This is the first comprehensive book on the topic of loan mods widely available to a national audience.
Today’s financial environment may seem like a chaotic free-for-all. But it’s not. In order to take advantage of the opportunity to improve your situation (or your clients’) and to tell the honest brokers from the crooks, you need to know the rules. RESPA, TILA, ARRA, the FCRA, Regulation Z. This book explains those rules—and gives you the tools for explaining them to clients and prospects.
Each part of the financial sector (home loans, car loans, student loans, etc.) has its own standards, priorities and procedures. If you know these, you can speak the language of today’s deal. Of the Cramdown.
Here’s the Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: The Spirit of Renegotiation
Chapter 2: Mortgage Modification
Chapter 3: Foreclosures and Deeds-in Lieu
Chapter 4: Real Estate Short Sales
Chapter 5: Settling Credit Card Balances
Chapter 6: Auto Loans and Leases
Chapter 7: Student Loans
Chapter 8: Personal Loans
Chapter 9: Payday Loans
Chapter 10: Taxes
Appendix 1: Letters, forms, etc.

CRAMDOWN: Renegotiating Mortgages, Car Loans, Student Loans, Credit Card Debt, Taxes & Other Obligations in the Age of Wall Street Bailouts

Graduation Debt: How to Manage Student Loans and Live Your Life

December 27, 2010 Debt No Comments

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Graduation Debt is different from the competition because it provides a step-by-step road map for effectively managing student loan debt and having a successful financial life. Yet, it’s completely positive. The focus is less on sacrifice and more on not wasting money, so readers can live better lives while paying off debt.

The book’s content is divided into small subsections geared toward those neck-deep in student debt. The brevity of each section makes the book digestible to those who aren’t inclined to focus on their finances. Readers are encouraged to take action steps such as finding long lost student loans that may have gone into default, discovering payment plans they can afford, consolidating loans when it makes sense to do so, saving money on eating out and groceries, improving credit scores, tweaking their debt-to-income ratios that’s needed to buy a home, discussing their student loan and non-student loan debt with their significant others.

By the end of the book readers will be on the road to managing all their debt and having extra money for vacations and other fun stuff, too.

How to Miss Student Loan Payments Without Hurting Your Credit
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Worried your credit will take a nose dive if you miss federal student loan payments? Your credit won’t be dinged if you call your loan servicer and qualify for a temporary payment reprieve.

What steps do you need to get approval for an excused absence from making payments?

1. Write down your monthly expenses and your monthly income on a piece of paper. Your loan servicer is going to want to know why you need a break from student loan payments.

2. Peruse the Department of Education’s or your servicer’s Web site to see if there are special reasons you might qualify for a payment break such as military service or you’re returning to school. You’ll find the words forbearance and deferment. These are the terms used for an approved temporary break from payment. The difference between the two is that in deferment the government will pay the interest charged until your deferment expires.

3. Write down circumstances that apply to you that you found on the same piece of paper as your finances.

4. Find the contact information for all your student loans. If you don’t have your paperwork for all your loan servicers, contact the department of Education or pull up your loan list by logging in to the National Student Loan Data System Web site.

5. Click on each loan that shows a balance in the Outstanding Principal column. Scroll down to the contact chart and write down the name of your servicer and the contact number. Repeat for each loan on which you still have a balance.

6. When you call each of your servicers, tell them you need either a deferment or forbearance. Then tell them your circumstances as to why you need a payment break. There may be a brand new type of forbearance or deferment that may work better for you.

7. Don’t accept more time than the maximum you could need at once, especially if you qualify for forbearance instead of a deferment. Why? Your interest still accrues if you are granted forbearance. For example, let’s say you have $60,000 in student debt at a rate of 5 percent. You decide to take a six-month payment break. Six months later, your loan has grown to $61,500 because of accrued interest and no payments made.

8. Fill out any necessary paperwork asked for by your servicer (s). Wait a week after you submit paperwork to call and verify paperwork has been received.

9. To protect your credit, wait to stop making payments until you’ve received a notice in writing from each servicer with the exact date your deferment or forbearance will begin and end. Call each servicer to verify this date and the date you should start making payments when your deferment or forbearance ends.

10. Keep your loan information in a folder in a place where you will be able to easily find the information later.

Graduation Debt: How to Manage Student Loans and Live Your Life

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December 27, 2010 Student Loans No Comments

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Wake Up To The Student Loan

December 26, 2010 Student Loans No Comments

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Progressive bluegrass featuring blazing instrumental work along with soulful vocals from an incredibly talented young band.
This is the stunning debut album from the up and coming newgrass band The Student Loan. Based out of Bowling Green, Ohio this group of young classically trained musicians has come together in their freshman effort to record an album that is exceptional in its musical breadth and vision. From catchy choruses to driving instrumentals The Student Loan pay homage to traditional bluegrass while frequent meter changes and extended jam sessions reflect the influence of jazz, classical, and jam band music.

Formed in the spring of 2005, The Student Loan synthesizes a wide array of musical styles and backgrounds. Guitarist, fiddler, and singer Liz Chibucos is a classically trained composer and violinist, who also has a background as a classical and jazz pianist. West Virginian Chad Kimbler, the groups mandolinist, recently completed his masters degree in music composition. In addition to playing the mandolin, Kimbler was formerly the Principal Second Violinist in the West Virginia University Symphony Orchestra and the former drummer for the Morgantown, West Virginia based group, The Sundowners. Banjo player Mark Gerolami comes from a background in music education and ethnomusicology and is the former singer and guitarist for the Bowling Green based band, Norton and The Anthologies. Bringing to the table a background in musicology and jazz studies and rounding out The Student Loan is bassist Julio Appling, former leader of the Harlequin Jazz Quartet and member of the Southern California progressive rock group Oneiria.
1 Intro
2 Campbell Hill Backstep
3 The Blarney Inn
4 Don’t Bring Me Down
5 Buffalo Gals
6 The Clough Street Turnaround
7 Rufus
8 Out of Sight
9 Gypsy Batwing
10 The Serpents of Paradise
11 Eye of the Storm
12 Down To
13 Outro

Wake Up To The Student Loan

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