Secret Finance

gserrado asked:


I am on my last year of Grad school and I run out of student loans. I had the federal loans and a citi-assist loan but my school is telling me that I maxed out on the amount of loans I can get (the full cost of attendance). What can I do? I see there are private student loan option but some say maximum is total cost of attendance… this means I am ineligible? what are my options?

Southerngirl29 asked:


I have around $4500.00 left in student loans, and I have two semester left of college. In the fall, I am taking 15 hours, but in the spring I am only taking six. Will they offer the remaining of my loans for the fall semester, and I can use my pell grant for the spring or will they split the remaining loans between the two semesters?

angela923 asked:


I’m graduating this June and I’m going to have about 30,000 canadian in student loans. I want to pay off my loans as quickly as I can even if it means sharing a room with someone. I’m planning to take at least 50% of my pay check to go into loans. So maybe around 900 a month, which allows me to pay off my loans in about 3 years. I’m normally a saver anyway and I can live cheaply. I would have just enough money left over for rent and living expenses. My rent would only be about 400 dollars. Plus, I have savings right now that would work as my emergency fund. Do you guys think that it’s a good idea and is it worth it financially? My thought is that it would save me on interest even though it would be hard for a few years, but I will be much better off in the long run. Any suggestions?

KristenM asked:


I have undergrad student loans from one bank that I consolidated, and then graduate student loans from another bank. I am graduating in August and at that point I would like to have them all consolidated so I am not paying 3 different people each month.

Κατερινα asked:


I am looking for a private student loan, to pay for room and board and food, etc. But most student loan companies don’t accept MMI (Motorcycle Mechanic Institute) as a school on their apps.

Does anyone know of a student loan that does? Other then Sally Mae, they only do tuition type loans for my school now.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

quake1920 asked:


I just completed graduate school a few months ago and I consolidated my student loans from undergrad and grad school and it is time to start repayment on my student loans. How many times can you defer your student loans..I consolidated them with the extended payment plan which is 30 years?

rebecca asked:


My student loans are through Sallie Mae and they charge 100 dollars to get a forbearance on the loans so I need to consolidate with a different company.

bbrrpf asked:


I have $100,000 in private student loans from two lenders. The interest rate is over 10%. Is there a way to get another loan to pay this off at a lower interest rate? What kind of debt consolidation program should I consult? Most student loan companies only deal with Federal loans it seems. I keep seeing ads for mortgage loans with low monthly payments– is there something similar I could get for a personal loan? THANKS!

Tesoro asked:


Like if I have $1000 now gathered from working as a student for 2 years, can I use that to pay some of the loan back? Or, is it that once I start paying back loans, I can’t stop, and I must consistently pay them back every month?

Also, do student loans have minimum sums we are allowed to pay every month? Like can it be that i’m only allowed to pay if i’m paying in a minimum sum of $800 or $1000?

P.S. this is not for me, so its not like I can look over a contract or anything like that.

Alex asked:


I just transferred undergraduate schools and still have some student loans from my previous school (Sallie Mae and Federal Direct loans). Is there some sort of clearing house that my new enrollment status will be sent to so that the loan agencies know that I haven’t just stopped going to school (and thus cause my loan payments to become due)? Or must I obtain enrollment verification from my current school and send it to each loan agency myself?