I’ve applied for private student loans but I don’t have any credit and my parents’ just as bad (they have a recent bankruptcy in their credit history).
I’ve already gotten federal and state grants, and the stafford loans, but I’m still $3500 short.
What can I do to be approved for a loan?
What other options are there?
I currently attend CUNY-Baruch College majoring in Real Estate and Metropolitan Development. I am anticipating on graduating next spring with a BS degree. After I graduate, I would like to pursue a degree in either Civil Engineering or Urban Planning.
In addition to attending school full time, I also work full time for a Real Estate Attorney as a Paralegal. My position has taught me the ins and outs of converting a property into condominium or cooperative status.
I am looking for anyone who can assist me in furthering my real estate education and experience.
I live in Brooklyn, New York. I am young, loyal, motivated, ambitious, an early bird, and a hard worker.
I’m a little lost here.
Early last year, Bush sent out $152 billion in stimulus checks. He then followed up at the end of the year with a bait-and-switch bailout package costing $700 billion. I say bait-and-switch because it was advertized to us as the repurchase of toxic debt to free up the financial system, and ended up being investment money and ‘bonus’ money to Wall St.
Now Obama is doing his own stimulus package. $787 billion. I may be wrong here, but the money is going to be spent on tax relief, social security hikes, unemployment hikes, infrastructure, housing, healthcare, education, energy, automobiles, security and law enforcement.
Please tell me why. Why are the Republicans having a fit at this effort? To me, the 2nd stimulus is an easy sell. It will create jobs, get the country out of its funk give us a few extra dollars in our pockets. The goal is not to make a few people mega-rich at everyone else’s expense, but to improve the country and allow a decent standard of living for more people.
It may contain a little bit of ‘make work’. It may mean a bigger government that would need to be trimmed down at a later stage. But it is an effort that in my opinion is better spent than $100,000 office makeovers and multi-million dollar bonuses and executive jets for a few.
This recession/depression was caused by the greed and stupidity of the financial giants. It was their bad decisions who allowed loans to people who couldn’t afford them. They built the house of cards and they deserve to pay the price for their own mess. But I didn’t participate in this mess! Now they get bonuses and keep their jobs, while I get small handouts from the government, massive losses in my retirement plan and the risk of unemployment.
I really think that these supposedly intelligent Republicans need to get over their compulsion to be contrary. Their solution did not work. They don’t have a solution put together that has the far reaching effect that the Obama solution provides. The Republican way is to put trust into financial institutions that have proven themselves to be untrustworthy.
Can anyone tell me why the Bush/Republican bailout is superior overall to the Obama/Democrat bailout?
Hi,
I would like to start an ( mostly) online real estate referral business.
Although I know some basics and hold a current CA Real Estate license, I was wondering if anyone could point me towards some books or websites that have correct and useful information on starting such a business.
Thank you
I’m going to be starting grad school in the next year and have no experience with the student loans I’ll probably end up taking out. I’ve searched for details via several student loan websites, and perhaps no one mentions it because it’s taken for granted that interest accumulates immediately, but are there any loans available that begin accruing their interest after the student graduates school? Or is this “pay six months after you graduate” just a phenomenon with when the required payments begin? If there are loans that do not accrue interest during school, do they have fines for early payment?
Thanks for your help answering (probably obvious) questions for a student-loan newbie!