Along with the honor of earning a college degree comes the need to pay for it all after graduation. Some students are lucky and have parents to pay for college, while others work hard and earn scholarships. If you have to pay for college yourself, you will have huge student loans to work off after you leave. The problem with student loans is that most students don’t understand what they are getting into once they graduate. There are deferments and forbearance you can apply for if funds are low. These will give you a grace period before you have to begin paying off your loans. While these can help when money is tight, the interest continues to build up. In some cases, when payments are missed, students end up facing defaulted student loans.
When this happens, you can kiss your credit rating goodbye. Defaulted student loans that show up on your credit report may stop any bank or other lending institution from extending a loan to you for a home, or for any other reason you may need to borrow money. If you don’t get these loans fixed and up to date, they will follow you around forever. Even worse, there are some companies that will buy defaulted student loans,...