Even before taking out student loans, you should come up with a plan for repayment. Figure out how much you are borrowing, how much you will be earning, and what your best option is. This is where budgeting comes in handy. The average student loan debt is rising, as is
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Apartments tick plenty of boxes. In any given location they tend to be more affordable than houses, they typically involve less maintenance, and amid a growing preference for lifestyle over the traditional quarter acre block, apartments are dishing up healthy rental yields which is good news for investors. As a
Want to start a student loan relief business? According to a recent ad that will give you all the tools to do just that, you can learn the tricks that let you cut someone’s private student loan payment by more than 50%. Clients who sign up for this program apparently also get a written
When will the loan servicers stop the nonsense? Why isn’t the Department of Education holding their feet to the fire? Consider this. The Department of Justice (Justice, not Education), documented that Sallie Mae has been overcharging interest to active duty members of the military since 2005, in violation of the servicemembers Civil Relief
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) asked for comments on student loan servicing a few months ago. Thousands of borrowers and their advocates responded before yesterday’s deadline, highlighting again and again that the current system does not work well for borrowers and is not created to ensure that borrowers have
This article is written by Anum Yoon. She is an international student currently working in the U.S. on her OPT. She spends all her free time running a personal finance blog for fellow millennials and international students over at Current on Currency. Starting as a freshman at any college is
Many colleges in the United States are making a big push to recruit international students to come and study. The sad truth is that this isn’t always an effort to diversify the campus. At some colleges, this is done to bring in more money. Unfortunately, international students often pay a
