Comments on: Seven Reasons Why I Hate Student Loans

By: suze

suze — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:56:00 +0000

I like the site — got here through a review on Free Money Finance. The look is very nice and readable.

Good advice, too!

By: erik.folgate

erik.folgate — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:21:34 +0000

Blaine, thanks for the advice. I have an administrator that handles the site so I will let him know about the RSS thing. Also, we just tranisitioned to a new template so the contact page hasn’t been put up yet. sorry about that!

By: erik.folgate

erik.folgate — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:20:35 +0000

Well, I need someone to teach me how to filter out certain google ads or else I wouldn’t let payday loan ads on my site, EVER. As for the student loan ads, I am not saying that you should NEVER get a student loan. I was in school recently, so I know that the value of certain educations can out perform the student loans in the long term. I was just trying to make a point that if at all costs you can avoid them or avoid taking such a big loan, DO IT! You’ll definitely thank yourself in your twenties and thirties.

By: luxuryoption

luxuryoption — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:43:15 +0000

After reading the post on your disdain for student loans, why do you have student loan ads on your website? [not to mention the revolting 'payday loan']

By: Blaine Moore (First Time Home Owner)

Blaine Moore (First Time Home Owner) — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:16:19 +0000

I’m with Flexo; I can easily beat my interest rate and with a mortgage and new student loans starting up from my wife being in graduate school, I imagine that my student loans will be some of the last debt that we pay off. Once I have the cash and no mortgage debt though it’ll become a priority.

By the way, I just wanted to mention a few suggestions for your site. I found you through your paid review at FreeMoneyFinance. Your autodiscovery feeds on your site don’t point to your RSS feed; they point to one at bloggingpro.com instead. You will want to update that. Second, there is no way to contact you that I could find; you will want to either provide a way or make it more obvious. I figured that it would be better to leave a comment and let you know rather than just deciding not to bother letting you know.

I like the look of the site. Very slick.

By: Flexo

Flexo — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 05:44:13 +0000

Nice post, particularly because I agree with everything you wrote… almost. With the low interest rate I have locked in, I’m not rushing to pay off the loan… even after taxes, my money I’m earning from interest in savings beats the interest I pay on the student loans. Although, It’s likely I’ll just pay the rest off in a lump sum to get the debt off my conscience.