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Fans of Heart ponder this query: How do I get you a loan?

Goose!Goose! That's me, honeyShow me the way home, honeyRegistered User regular
edited October 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
Okay, so its more how do I get ME a loan, but that doesn't work with the lyric.

Anyway, the long and the short of it is I went to school in Fall 2004-Spring 2005. It ended up being the worst year of my life (bad school for my major, lived on campus and everything was a fuckin hike, commuter campus alienated me most of the time), and to top it all off, I still owe my tuition (15k+) because when applying for a loan via the FAFSA, I somehow managed to screw up in submitting my master promissory note, and the amount they said I was getting was voided. Its now (obviously) Fall 2007, so its too late to reclaim that money, so I need to get a personal loan to pay off my debt to the college so I can go back to school and hope to have some form of future.

So, I beseech thee, how can a kid whose barely 21 (not even til January), has had one credit card, and apparently doesn't have a good credit rep yet get a loan of around 18,000?

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  • variantvariant Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    If you screwed up on submitting your MPN how exactly did you even get the loan?

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  • Goose!Goose! That's me, honey Show me the way home, honeyRegistered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Well, it first sent me something saying I had received such and such in Stafford and PLUS loans, which I allocated to the school and they received (apparently, because the amount I owed went down substantially after doing that) the information, but once they expiration for the MPN went by, that disappeared from the statement and it said I owed.

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  • xThanatoSxxThanatoSx Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Disclosure: I spent 18 of the last 20 months working for GE Money in NZ doing personal lending and retail finance (have recently changed jobs away from GE).

    18k for a 20 yo w/ not so good credit. Do you have anything that can be used as collateral for said loan (vehicle/property etc)? My thought on the matter is that through a bank or credit union you may have issues given the risk averse nature of lending in general currently.

    Have you tried looking at Prosper.com? I have no personal experience with this site, but what I've read about it has tended to be good.

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  • Goose!Goose! That's me, honey Show me the way home, honeyRegistered User regular
    edited October 2007
    If they want a vehicle that doesn't run, then yeah I do. But nothing else really.

    I'll check that site you mentioned, and as an update I've applied to capitalone...crossin my fingers there.

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