Please let this be real

Mar 3, 2018 4:01 PM

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http://www.businessinsider.com/national-collegiate-billions-student-loan-debt-2017-7

Business Insider just click-baited 75% of millennials. Well-fucking-played.

8 years ago | Likes 286 Dislikes 0

This happens more often than you think. Debt buyers are a very common thing at least in the US source: I volunteer at a consumer debt clinic

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

If you can't prove I owe you something, it's hard for you to take me to court over it? But just MAYBE? Fucking clown world.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

they lost the paperwork for 5 students?

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Real or not. It will show up. If not. Make a fake. Shitty but true.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Sounds like an inside job

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

5 billion out of 1.3 trillion. By the way, student loan delinquencies is at a record high. Might it trigger the next great crash? Who knows.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Good. I hope they get fucked.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Please let it be Nelnet...please let it be Nelnet

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Please be mine, please be mine, please be mine.....

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I want a 1h30 and a half movie about a dude/dudette stealing and burning those paper to save life, Shindler List style

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Which uhhh... Which lender is this? *starts furiously jotting down notes*

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

They say if you ever get foreclosed on that you NEED to show up for the hearing bc 9 times out of 10 the bank that holds your mortgage...

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

...seldom have paperwork to prove it. So many people think all is lost, so they don’t show up. Meaning they could have kept their house.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well it's about time for a fight club incident

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

80 Billion dollars was just given to the military on top of the 168 they are already getting and no one speaks of it. 1/2

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It would cost 68 Billion for the U.S. to pay for free college for it's citizens. "But we don't have the money" Fuck off. 2/2

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Right after I paid mine off of course

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

so they are making a sequel to fight club?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"I hope this is real" It's a news story from last year. If you were affected, you'd know by now

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This is almost a year old. Update?

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Laws are still pretty much the same. If the debt collector does not have the paperwork proving their right to collect, you can dispute it

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Those five people must be overjoyed

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I used to foreclose loans. Lost papers happen ALL the time. Under FS, you literally ask the witness 4 ?’s and the papers are reestablished.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Long story short, these loans won’t disappear.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

does business insider actually think anyone is going to turn off their ad blocker and purposely give their computer cancer?

8 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 0

Old executive types might. But no-one under 40 will.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Guys, I think Tyler Durden is behind this.

8 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Oh man, you beat me to it

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Durden? Or Mr. Robot?

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Good call.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What paper? How is there no electronic copy? I call fake news.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

God I hope they lost mine.

8 years ago | Likes 189 Dislikes 1

Ditto

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They will say they found them. They won't show them to you tho

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

same.

8 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Is this real?

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Ditto

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I can't help you, even I owe them...

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

PLEASE BE MINE, PLEASE BE MINE PLEASE BE MINE, PLEASE BE MINE PLEASE BE MINE, PLEASE BE MINE PLEASE BE MINE, PLEASE BE MINE

8 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Unless you have private student loans, they are not yours.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I do! I do!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ohhhhh! You might get lucky! But, if I understand the article correctly, the only way to really know is to stop paying.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Oh, that happened decades ago!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Please let it be DeVos student loan company.

8 years ago | Likes 103 Dislikes 4

According to the article it's "The National Collegiate Student Loan Trusts"

8 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 0

Damn.

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I was hoping for Wells Fargo.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Sallie Mae.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Those 7 students are so lucky

8 years ago | Likes 2697 Dislikes 7

(Article says 10k)

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Seven? So they didn't get the books too.

8 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

There's only 5

8 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 1

There.. Are.. Four.. Students..

8 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

I see what you did there.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Three students, but one is 32 and still working on his doctorate. He needs one more class, but the university has cancelled it 3 times now.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Wow that hit way to close to home.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 0

This, this makes me sad. Funny, but sad.

8 years ago | Likes 168 Dislikes 3

This makes you funny?

8 years ago | Likes 43 Dislikes 0

Yes, like Pianto Larmes, the Weeping Clown...

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

v

8 years ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 0

Realistically: 5,000,000,000/37,000=135,000

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 6

That's like 27000 more students than I'd have guessed

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

And in a dispute case, the lender wins by default.

8 years ago | Likes 101 Dislikes 10

This isn't true.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"Your honor...what loan?"

8 years ago | Likes 41 Dislikes 1

Not if it can't prove it's the lender. The paperwork missing here isn't the note, it's the sale of the note to the new lender.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

What lender? That's the whole fucking point of this. You can't simply *claim* to have lent someone $1 million and "win by default".

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Or if you can, then let it by known that I personally gave Donald Trump a loan for $5 billion, and I'm seeking full repayment w/ interest.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

how would they know who to dispute things with?

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

Because they have the ledger, just not the actual evidence that the own the loan it shows.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Really? Can you back that up with data?

8 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 1

The article literally states you still have to prove you had the note.

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

I believe the article is supposed to be that they lost that paperwork and thus couldn't prove it in court

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

TL;DR Article states that they still usually win because most settle or don't show up to court but when they do lender struggles to prove1/2

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Ownership due to not having paperwork like a promissary note

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That article does not say the lender wins by default. It says they must "prove that the borrower agreed to the loan and its terms".

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

"Even if a promissory note is lost, the legal obligation to repay the loan remains."

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Right, obviously. But as the article says, to enforce it they must prove that the legal obligation existed in the first place.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I admit, this is mortgage law, but the foundations of any promissory note should be fairly equivalent, barring specific exclusions.

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Property law is probably the most strict contact law in the country so be careful about applying it outside of property.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And if, add I suspect, the specific exclusion might be realized property versus intangible knowledge, prepare for liens on your degree...

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I think they’ll find it... they got 5 billion reasons to

8 years ago | Likes 612 Dislikes 1

Isn't everything electronic with logs stored on multiple back up servers.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

In theory.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Way more than that. It’s 5 billion plus interest.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

They are willing to go as far as paying $4.99 billion to find it

8 years ago | Likes 139 Dislikes 1

Would they be, if it seemed as if they'd fail and then be out the initial 5 billion and additional 4.99 billion they spent digging around?

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

$4,999,999,999.99*

8 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 1

You can gut pennies in half, right? You gotta step up your game.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Or, possibly, fabricating it?

8 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

That would be a lawsuit waiting to happen

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You really think someone would do that, run a student loan organization and tell lies?

8 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

They would have to somehow get the very specific information on every single student. Now if they lost the paperwork... How do they know who

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

There's one fucker that owes them 5 billion. They know it.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's on a sticky note somewhere...

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0