The PayDay Loan Web – Don’t Be a Needy Fly That Gets Caught in This Web

my personal payday loan story that can help you

the
term payday loan starts with the letter “p” which is the same letter
that starts off the words pain, penalty, poor and poverty. Both the
internet and the physical world are full of places where you can get a
loan with bad credit, no credit check, and no employment verification
but what these modern day loan sharks don’t tell you is that their
interest rates are so high that one day you may end up with the payday
loan mafia coming after you!

Sure, these loans look very
attractive to those in financial need that are unable to get a loan by
conventional means but when the facts are presented what you have to pay
back just isn’t worth it. This fictional character that we all refer
to as “guido” which is the person that comes to break your arms and legs
when you don’t pay a loan shark back is in existence in a different way
when it comes to payday loans. Instead of your arms and legs the
payday loan guido comes after your heart, soul and peace of mind.

Payday
loan places make their offerings look so attractive but it is all an
illusion because who can really see when they are desperate? What you
don’t want to happen is for what appears to be a temporary solution to
become a long term problem and many times that is exactly what happens.

I’ve
been caught in the payday loan otherwise known as payday advance web
many times. Sometimes life’s circumstances leave us very few choices
and we decide to do what we feel like we have to do to buy gas and put
food on the table. Like I said, i’ve been there before and as a
survivor of payday loan debt I have knowledge that can help you.

I
want you to ask yourself a question which is, “if you don’t have
enough money to get by what makes you think you can payoff a loan with
300%- 700% interest?” You might as well sell your first born child.
Payday loans may seem good in the short run and you may get instant
gratification and even a rush when you hold that cash in your hands or
see it in your bank account but in the long run it is a race that many
can’t win.

My story, like many, was that I obtained payday loans
to cover immediate expenses I needed cash for but didn’t have money to
pay the loans back so I got extension after extension paying out ungodly
amounts of money. Before long I was getting new payday loans just to
pay the other payday loans I had received. I was trapped in a vicious
cycle with no way out and a ton of stress upon me. I became a needy fly
caught in the payday loan web, especially since most of my loans were
online loans; I was literally in a virtual web. The payday loan spider
sucked the life blood out of my bank accounts and I didn’t know what to
do.

Please understand that you can’t solve a problem with a
problem and you can’t come out debt by creating more debt. The solution
to your debt starts with gaining additional income sources and paying
off existing debt little by little so you can be free. In my own
personal payday loan crisis I got up to almost $7, 000 worth of payday
loans and when renewal payment time came my entire paycheck was gone.
This is a miserable experience that I pray you can avoid. You might
already be at this state but even if you are I have some suggestions for
you that will offer hope.

The first thing you have to do is to
make a conscious decision to get out of this situation. Decide to
change and become a butterfly rather than a fly caught up in the payday
loan web. When a caterpillar is going through the metamorphosis in the
cocoon in order to become a butterfly there is a struggle. The struggle
is in fact what makes the butterfly great because the struggle to get
out of the cocoon transformed actually pushes fluid from the butterfly’s
body into its wings so that it can emerge in beautiful flight. This
process may be a little painful but it will help you fly and be what you
were made to be.

One thing that I did was to become an affiliate
for payday loan companies so that I could get paid from other people
acquiring payday loans. Some people are just going to get them so there
is no reason why you shouldn’t get paid from the process that made you
pay so much. The second thing I did is what really helped me which was
to get a payday loan consolidation company to take on my debt at a
reduced amount and pay the payday loans back for me on my behalf. It
was one of the best choices I ever made and it was a way out of the
payday loan web.

You can do a Google search to find companies that will
represent you in this way but do your research and make sure that the
company you choose is credible. I used pdl assistance, inc. They
require an upfront fee to take your case but they will work with you on
paying it and it is around $200. Next you set up a plan to pay them a
monthly amount on your payday loan debt and they pay your debtors
directly. They will give you different term options to pay the debt off
and they will deal with the payday loan companies for you. Doing this
took a huge weight off of me. I got a 12 month term to repay my payday
loan debt at 35% of what I owed the payday loan companies. The $400 a
month I was paying on this plan was much better than the $700 plus every
two weeks I was paying for all the loans I had.

One important
thing to know when you start a payday loan consolidation program is that
the payday loan companies are going to call you to collect. When they
call just give them the information for the company that is representing
you and let them know that the debt is going to be repaid to them as
part of a loan/debt consolidation program you have initiated. I
obtained the fax numbers to my payday loan companies and sent them
notification on who to contact regarding the repayment of my loans. If
you do this make sure to include your account number and social security
number so they can properly locate your account.

Some companies
will continue to try and collect from you in spite of this so I have
another suggestion if this happens. If you get numerous collection
calls after you have informed them about your debt consolidation you
need to fax and/or send them a cease and desist letter. You can get a
template off the internet and submitting this letter will stop the
collection calls while your debt consolidation program is in the works.

Another
tip is to close the bank account you have the loan fees being deducted
from if possible. You will want to start a new account before you close
your existing account and under no circumstances get payday loans under
the new account. You have to treat the payday loan habit like an
addiction. If you are going to stop it then stop it because replicating
the mistake will only make things worse for you.

If you need
money then get bad credit credit cards and pay them on time to build
your credit. Pay more than the minimum payment and use them to pay
bills so you can pay what you need to pay while building your credit.
No debt consolidation company can legally advise you to close your
account but sometimes it is the only way to keep the payments from being
processed and causing you hundreds or even thousands of dollars in
overdraft fees. For me this was the easiest way because I had so many
loans and it would have cost me a $25 fee for every stop payment
processed plus the bank could have missed some.

I also want you to
know that the cease and desist letter can be used for any type of debt
collection and not just payday loans. It is important to know your
rights and you can find them out online at the federal trade
commission's website where you can learn about the fair debt collection
act. You will learn what creditors can and cannot do regarding the
collection of your debts and how to stop inconvenient and harassing
behavior.

I do not encourage anyone to get a payday loan because
it can get out of control so easily. If you must get a payday loan be
sure to get one with low fees well below the normal $30 per $100
borrowed.