Happy Friday friends! I’m excited for another installment of Student Loan Conquerors. Student Loan Conquerors is an interview series where I talk with some awesome people tackling their student loan debt head on and finding out how they are doing it and what inspired them to start in the first place. If you are interested in…
2016 has been a ball buster of a year. It’s flown by and is quickly coming to an end. I want to help you kick off 2017 with a bang. What better way to kick start the year than with kicking some debt to the curb? I know that debt repayment is not always a…
If you’re making repaying debt and student loan debt, in particular, a priority, awesome. Way to go you. Do yourself a favor and make sure you aren’t taking a step backward with every two steps forward. Avoid these mistakes: 1. Building Up More Debt While Repaying Debt It’s really hard to pay off your student…
You can always make more money, but you can’t make more time. You probably hear this saying floating around the personal finance blogosphere. It is I would guess a major reason there are so many people pursuing FIRE (financial independence/retire early). Oh, and would that I could, I’d be pursuing that too, but first I…
A while back, when driving for Lyft I was taking a friendly group to a party. They asked why I decided to start driving with Lyft. Per usual, I said I had a shit ton of student loan debt. Turns out this group was a group of doctors. They said they had a ton of student…
Wouldn’t we all love a pardon on our student loans? Depending on your loans and/or what you do for a living, you just might qualify for student loan forgiveness after a certain period. Before you get too excited, realize that depending on the program you qualify for, that forgiven amount might actually become one big…
There is a lot going on when you finish school. If you just graduated from law school, then you are probably focusing on studying for the bar and student loans are the last thing on your mind. However, eventually, you are going to have to sit down and figure out how much you owe in…
This is a guest post from Eric Rosenberg at Personal Profitability. He paid off $40,000 of student loan debt from his $90k MBA in two years and quit his day job in April 2016 to pursue his online side hustle full-time. On March 23, 2012, I made a $3,690.52 student loan payment. That was the very…
This blog post is part of the World Suicide Prevention Day blog tour. If you or someone you know is feeling suicidal, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 or visit www.Suicide.org Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness, But it Does Buy Options I’ve talked about how money is more than just numbers before, how…
You know I have a mountain of debt. Most of it is federal student loans. But I do have one private loan, my bar loan. It was a variable interest loan and after the interest rate went up three times in six months, I decided it was time to refinance. My Original Bar Loan First things…