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Don't Go Overboard With Easy Payday Loans
When you take out an easy payday loan from a legitimate lender, your limit is ordinarily
set (usually around 25% of your monthly income) at that time. That limit is based on proven,
and common sense reasons, for making sure that you are not borrowing more than your paycheck
says you can. Important note: this is a good, no great thing!
Now, if you take that amount out at one lender and then go to another payday
loan company and take that amount out again, then you have personally, by your own choice
(which will cause you to suffer future consequences) borrowed beyond the reasonable means you
have to pay the loan(or loans, now) back. You cannot blame the easy payday loan lenders for
the consequences of your own bad choices, but unfortunately, that seems to be the trend: to
blame everyone else except the one who got into the mess in the first place.
To stay out of trouble with easy payday loans, always remember the two following rules:
- You should never carry payday loans from more than one pay day lender at a time. They do
not have a magical system by which to know if you already have a loan out with another lender.
- If you are over your head with a legitimate lender (most of them are CFSA members), then
there are easy, no additional fee, payment plans by which you can pay your loans off —find
them.
By the way, legitimate lenders, by CFSA rules and regulations, do not practice intimidating
or unfair collections, nor can they take you to court if they were inclined to do so. It is
in their agreement of honor with you, and their choice of risk, that it is your honorable agreement
to pay back the loan that they gave you. The APR that you are quoted is required by government,
and it truly is not the reality on a short-term payday loan, since what it really is, is a
fat-fee (like $15 on a $100 loan) plus a one-time return check fee (maybe $25) if your check
happens to be returned for insufficient funds. Remember: there is NO interest if you have the
funds in your account to take out on your next payday (this is what this type of loan is all
about).
Easy payday loans, if used as intended are actually cheap, and pretty reasonable to negotiate
with, compared to the fees, penalties and interest rates of traditional bank loans.
