All posts by Steve Rhode
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Does This Bicoastal Funding Debt Consolidation Loan Offer Make Sense to You?A reader sent in this offer they received from Bicoastal Funding for a debt consolidation loan. The advertisement says that not only can you repay your $80,500 of debt with their new loan but they will give...
- Posted July 19, 2018
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Mulvaney CFPB Further Abandons Consumer Interests by Firing Volunteer ExpertsRecently I wrote about the changing mission of the CFPB from consumer-oriented to business-oriented under acting director Mick Mulvaney. The agency is having such an identity crisis at the moment it is known by two names, the...
- Posted July 19, 2018
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Should I Quit Paying on My Student Loans?Question: Dear Steve, I am $91k in private student loan debt (20 year term). I am $28k in Federal student loan debt. My interest rates are good as far as student loan interest rates go – under...
- Posted July 18, 2018
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A Quick Look at the FSB Lending and FSB Education Mailer and What It SaysA reader sent in the FSB Lending Mailer through my I Buy Junk Mail program. The mailer appears to be yet another of those efforts to offer people the possibility of a loan and also maybe some...
- Posted July 18, 2018
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Department of Education Wants to Reconnect to Data From Social Security AdministrationA notice out today says the Department of Education seeks the “re-establishment of the matching program between the U.S. Department of Education (Department) and the Social Security Administration (SSA). The purpose of the matching program is to...
- Posted July 18, 2018
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Debts Resolved – Scam, Complaint, Review, Or Praise?Please share your experience with this debt relief company and provide your review and feedback, in the comments section below. The goal of this page is to allow people to share information that may be important to...
- Posted July 17, 2018
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Debts Resolved Puts Out Press Release Which Leaves Me Scratching My Bald HeadA debt relief company named Debts Resolved just put out a very odd press release. Parts of the release didn’t make any sense to me and I was surprised the release used titles of people like the...
- Posted July 17, 2018
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NC Calls on Department of Education to Cooperate Again With Law Enforcement AgainNorth Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein yesterday called on the U.S. Department of Education to honor its “historic law enforcement partnerships” by reinstating the long-standing practice of disclosing student loan information to law enforcement agencies – a...
- Posted July 17, 2018
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CESI and EARN Team Up to Upgrade Debt Management with SaverLife ProgramFinally. I can’t believe it has taken so long for a credit counseling group to make the leap to include a savings component to a debt reduction approach. Historically credit counseling groups directed every possible dollar they...
- Posted July 17, 2018
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CFPB or BCFP. Who Are They Today And Where Did Consumers Go?The Acting Director of the CFPB, Mick Mulvaney (Bio coming soon), has indicated he wants the entity name changed to Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection. Recently I received a press release from the organization that still identifies...
- Posted July 16, 2018
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This is How Absurd Student Loan Debt Has Become – Paid Off the Game ShowA new television game show has debuted named Paid Off. The premise is contestants compete to have their student loan debt, paid off. The show on TruTV pits a few people against the other to win and...
- Posted July 16, 2018
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CT Targets Debt Management Inc. in Scathing OrderThe State of Connecticut, Department of Banking, takes their jobs very seriously. For years they have gone after debt relief companies. But while the name of this company sounds like a debt relief group, it is a...
- Posted July 16, 2018
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Chamberlain College of Nursing Won’t Give Me My TranscriptQuestion: Dear Steve, I took a private student loan in order to complete my last year of nursing school. I knew then that the loan would be expensive to pay off but I also knew that once...
- Posted July 7, 2018
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I Co-Signed For a Student For My Ex-Girlfriend And I Want It Off My Credit ReportQuestion: Dear Steve, I co-signed on my ex-girlfriend’s student loan. The loan is now in collections. I am in the process of trying to qualify for a home loan, and the student loan is showing up on...
- Posted July 5, 2018
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Bankruptcy is Wrong But I Don’t Want to Pay My Christian CollegeQuestion: Dear Steve, My Situation is very similar to the situation in this post. The main and only difference is that I completed one year of school at a Christian private school, and it was towards a...
- Posted July 5, 2018
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