Is A Paycheck Advance Right For You?

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Anyone can run out of money before pay day. Often times, income has little to do with it. Couple that with a flailing economy, and more and more individuals are having trouble making it to their next pay day. It might be more diapers and formula for the baby, or an overdue car payment. In any case, a paycheck advance is an option that more and more people are taking advantage of.

It wasn't long ago that cash advance offices were in the wrong part of town, frequented by people our mothers told us to stay away from, and managed by individuals we didn't want to be around in a dark alley. No more! Offices are now managed by business people in suits, and located in the same beautiful office buildings as their where their customers are employed.

Application requirements differ depending on where you go, but generally you need a net income of at least $1,000 a month and your loan will only be approved for an amount less than your take home pay. You also need to have a checking account. Some companies allow you to borrow up to $1,000, but most limit their loans to a maxmimum of about $500. The general rule is the more you earn, the more you can borrow.

Interest rates are comparable with what you'd expect to pay if you were taking a cash advance from your credit card. These are unsecured loans, the interest is a bit high with an average of 15-25% depending on the loan term, but if your only option is taking out a loan or having your electricity turned off – the decision is a no-brainer.

Many companies have websites where you can apply discretely and handle the entire process almost anonymously. They usually require that you send in some type of paperwork like check stubs but after your application is approved they usually deposit the money into your checking account fairly quickly.

Keep in mind that even though they won't pull a regular credit report, they will check with another type of credit service that only deals with open pay day loans. They monitor what loans have been paid, which ones are open, and which ones have been defaulted on. If you have no open loans, and if you have never defaulted on a past loan, you're good to go.

If doing business online is not your thing, call a local office and ask what you need to do to apply. Make sure you have everything when you show up. You may get a check right away or you may need to wait for it to get wired to your checking account.

Make sure you do some research first in order to compare rates and limits. These companies have learned to aggressively compete with each other.

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November 15, 2010

Sandy @ 2:21 pm #

My husband, me, and my two children moved to Reno on July 1, 2008 from California thinking that this move would change our lives for the better. It is now August 19, 2008, and I have spent time and money on gas looking, applying, and interviewing for jobs that left me nowhere. I have literally applied for more than 500 jobs, interviewed for about 20 of them, followed-up, and still nowhere. Our house payment is $1100 per month not including any of the other bills. Our expenses are increasing as our income has almost completely vanished. Therefore, I panhandled one day because I had to get to California for court. I had not a penny to my name. All that I needed was $50-60 to get there and back. I stood holding a sign for two hours thinking that maybe I was walking away with less than I hoped and it turned out that people helped me with exactly what I needed to get to California and back again. I was greatful! WIth the rising gas prices, no job, and down on luck, we've had to do this a few times. I have taken out loans from paycheck advance places, and this, too, is only adding to our debt rather than helping it. At present, our power and water bills are about to be shutoff and our cupboards are bare with food. How is one to live like this? What other solutions are there when the need for money is now not later? Even if getting a job, which I have looked for every single day more than eight hours a day on the internet, on the street, and networking with as many people I run into daily, one still doesn't get paid from that job for two weeks. The BILLS have to be PAID NOW! My children need to be FED FOOD NOW! Well, the long end of the story is that my husband stood out there for fifteen minutes today to earn enough to pay the bills that will be shut off this weekend if we didn't come up with any money, and a cop pulled up to him in his car, grabbed the sign, threw it away, and told my husband that if he could take him to jail for panhandling. Luckily, the officer didn't take him to jail, but he did state that if he catches my husband out there again, he will take him to jail. SO- now what do we do? We are stuck and out of luck. We are not out there because panhandling is a FUN thing to do. We are out there for a legitimate purpose. If one looks at the churches- they survive on donations and help from the people. Grant it- we may not be in a building, instead we are on the streets simply trying to survive asking for the same donations that a church asks for. True- the minister provides a teaching or a service to the people, and if hired, I would provide a service to the people as well! Please…. any suggestions or advice as to what we should do as we try to pursue our career at looking for a job? By the way, I am also a student of a University- in my senior year, and also have an Associates degree. It is not that I am stupid or too uneducated to get a job.

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