Lack of emo or tact

[sincere]

Enough of that damn emo on my LJ. *kicks it*

I would do this meme I just saw which was like, "Name a fandom and I will name an unpopular opinion I have about it," but I do that all the time anyway. (Hey, y'all, I don't care what anyone says: Will Turner is a jackass.)

Instead, I ask intelligent questions. Has anyone else consolidated student loans and has some tales of woe and/or recommendations for me? I need to because my payments are coming up in, uhh, August.

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[rosesnrubies.livejournal.com]

Mine were consolidated through AES also, and that's where I do my payments. However I thought I got a notice in the mail a while back that they might have been sold to Sallie Mae - I'm not totally positive, am going to go look tonight.

AES has been great though, and they'll send email reminders for your payments :)

[yashahime.livejournal.com]

My mother used to work at a bank, and she said that they would sometimes sell accounts, yes. If yours were sold to Sallie Mae, I'd get away from them ASAP. Sallie Mae has a habit of not applying your payment where it's supposed to go and then charging you fees out the wazoo. They lost a deferment form--fortunately, I had records--and even though the back-dated the deferment for the time period in question, they still wanted me to pay a small fortune in fees on it. We had Words. With the supervisor's supervisor. But that's a REGULAR OCCURENCE with Sallie Mae.

[rosesnrubies.livejournal.com]

Would my loan be owned by Sallie Mae though if I am still continuing to pay through the AES website?

I've heard lots of bad stuff about Sallie Mae in the past few months.

I really ought to read the boring letters...

[yashahime.livejournal.com]

If you're paying through the AES website, then they're still owned by AES. You may have gotten one of their stupid "give us your money and business!" letters. I get them all the time.