Loan (ar) Ranger

Advantages: Fun, easy to lend, makes you feel good, can earn better interest than a bank sometimes.
Disadvantages: Can lose your money, your money is tied up - I mean it's tied up for years (or forever)

...'s purely based on a sound business like assessment of your ability to repay. As more lenders want to cash-in on your unfortunate cash-flow predicament, they'll try their best to get as much money offered to you as possible at the highest rate they can manage. They might question you on your finances too and allow you to explain yourself. Generally you'll find the experience either amusing or slightly humiliating depending on how much you enjoy complete strangers telling you how you should manage your money. Once the offer process is complete (typically 7 to 10 days or so) you'll have a list of people who've given you offers, and the best ones who add up to the amount of money you wanted are chosen. You can then accept the loan, or reject it. Your choice. There's a second way ? markets. This is where you go through a loan application...

hard_to_please 10.08.2009 · Read review
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NASTY BUSINESS!

Advantages: Compelling reading
Disadvantages: Some similarities to other novels by the author, strong language may offend some.

...Review of The Business, a hardback novel by Martina Cole The Business is Martina Cole's latest offering in a long line of best selling novels set against a backdrop of London's criminal underworld. For those unfamiliar with Ms Cole's books, she writes of subjects unsavoury, seedy and at times, uncomfortable. Nothing is taboo to Ms Cole and The Business covers violence, murder, prostitution, drug addiction, child abuse and neglect . Her writing style is gritty and she produces novels that are hauntingly readable. Readers are under no illusions about her characters and their lifestyles, a peep into a world very different from most people's reality, Ms Cole's books have the ability to shock, fascinate, touch and repulse me as the story unfolds! **The Plot** Covering period from 1978 to the present day, The Business follows...

brittle1906 16.01.2009 · Read review
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Change of Business?

Advantages: Another Book From Cole
Disadvantages: Not a great page turner

...Martina Cole - The Business?.. **The Book** Martina Cole's latest novel entitled "The Business" is yet another book filled with the gritty, hard hitting seediness that is the London underworld. We go back in time to the late 70's and meet the Dooley family. Gerald Dooley SNR, head of the house, Mary Dooley the mother of three children, two sons and a daughter, Imelda. Imelda is the main charter throughout the book as we follow her life, which is bad from start to finish. Imelda is trouble with a capital "T" and this is something that her family are soon to realise. Her sexually loose behaviour soon gets her with "a belly full of arms and legs" as Martina Cole so eloquently puts it, and this causes major friction within the family. Her father, Gerald SNR, cannot believe that his young and angelic daughter is already giving...

newby2 13.07.2009 · Read review
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Personal Loan

Advantages: Competative
Disadvantages: None

...I haven't wrote a review on Ciao for quite some time, so to get back into the swing of it, I thought I'd write about something I know quite a lot about!!!! HSBC Loans. HSBC offer several ways of borrowing money, I'm going to talk to you today about the personal loan. SOME BASIC FACTS An HSBC personal loan is a good idea if you want fixed monthly repayments and you know exactly how much you want to borrow. You can borrow any amount between £1000 and a whopping £25,000. As I said the repayments are fixed which basically means you will pay the same amount back each month for the period of the loan. Loans between £1000 and £15,000 can be taken over any period between 1 and 5 years. Loans over £15,000 can be taken over a maximum of 8 years. An HSBC personal loan can be agreed for any purpose, and if you are accepted the money can...

coolaskaha 15.05.2004 (15.03.2006) · Read review
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Egg Fried Loans

Advantages: Simple application process. Very flexible personal finance. Low APR
Disadvantages: Telesales staff very pushy with the payment protection sales.

...After making a decision to buy a new car, (see my previous op!) I shopped around for the best loan deal I could find that suited me. The most obvious places, like my bank, or the place I was buying my car from did not offer anything favourable to me. What I was looking for was a loan where I could be flexible, i.e. be able to pay off lump sums when I can afford it, or increase my monthly payments or take a month off maybe now and then. It would also be nice to clear the debt without incurring penalty. So, after checking my banks website, and calling them, I searched on the net for flexible loans. Two familiar names came up, Egg, and Cahoot. The Cahoot site didn’t load for me, I am an impatient sort, so they lost my business straight away. Egg was looking good already! The Egg folk offer a number of personal...

alflavor 22.09.2001 · Read review
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The Business

Advantages: Sunny
Disadvantages: Boring

...The Business is set in the 1980s and tells the story of a young man from London who goes to work in Spain. The film is set in the Costa del Sol, The acting, the storyline and the script in this film is not very good.. I might recommended this film for the soundtrack but not much else because it really isn't that good. I rented this film without the additional disc of extras so I can't really tell you anything about them. Even so, I wouldn't bother watching it if I were you. Running Time: 90 mins Director: Nick Love Producer: Allan Niblo, James Richardson Executive/Co-Producer: Rupert Preston Editor: Stuart Gazzard Screenwriter: Nick Love Director of Photography: Damian Bromley Sound: Simon Willis Cast: Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan, Georgina Chapman, Geoff Bell...

Nazuku 15.07.2006 · Read review
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The wacky loan-zone

Advantages: Easy to use, excellent rates, cut out the banks
Disadvantages: Some longer term rates can be less competitive for borrowers

...What's good about a Personal Loan? If all the junk mail and newspaper ads from the big banks are to be believed, a Personal Loan is a great product that everyone should have! In reality, the best thing is usually receiving the money, and buying your big-ticket item or paying off those debts... it's rarely the loan itself, but that is about to change, thanks to Zopa. Zopa (short for the "Zone of Possible Agreement") is an online exchange offering savers the chance to lend money to borrowers in a safe and straightforward way. Savers wanting to earn a higher rate of interest than they might get from a bank can pay money into Zopa and offer it to potential borrowers at rates and terms (length of time of the loan) that suit them. Borrowers can similarly be matched to these lenders. The beauty of the system is this - your...

andyev 10.04.2007 (20.04.2007) · Read review
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Halifax Unsecured Loan

Advantages: No monthly repayments for first three months
Disadvantages: APR rate can get steep up to nearly 23%

...I applied for an unsecured loan with Halifax, I really wasn't sure where to start as I'm new to the loans market - I'd never considered one before but I was looking for a new flat and wanted the cash for a deposit. I think it is wise to compare loans before you choose because there are so many out there!! I used financial comparison sites to help me, one I used was Which Way To Pay (www.whichwaytopay.com) , they have a really good breakdown system of each loan. Halifax were straigh to the point and I was happy with the no repayments for the first 3 months system as that was perfect for getting settled in my new flat! Plus they are good for the fact that the monthly repayments are fixed so you don't get caught further down the line!...

xenia123 11.11.2008 · Read review
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Cahoot flexible loans.

Advantages: I was accepted where I have been refused elsewhere.
Disadvantages: None yet really!

...I have a graduate account with barclays with a lot of debt (£3000 overdraft and £3000 personal loan) and was finding the repayments on my loan quite high, so I approached barclays with the intention of consolidating loan, overdraft and £1000 credit card with another loan with lower repayments. I am employed and have been with barclays for 7 years. Seems reasonable? Well, see my other opinion (which I will write next) about my fiasco with Barclays. No really, you would not believe it! Anyway, fuming about Barclays, I went searching for another loan provider, planning to consolidate and leave Barclays forever. I felt quite dejected when I was rejected by Lombard direct, due to a low credit score. This was due to me not having worked for long I think. Ciao was my next port of call, and I was glad it was. My attention was drawn to...

Friedegg 22.06.2003 · Read review
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The Business Of Dying

Advantages: Gripping plot, fast paced story, great characters
Disadvantages: Can't think of any!

...I love reading but for some reason I don?t seem to have the time to read as much as I would like to so my recent holiday meant that I got some time to loose myself in a good book ? The Business Of Dying The Business of Dying is Simon Kernick?s first book. About The Author Simon Kernick was born 1966 in the town of Slough. After leaving school in the mid 1980s, he worked in a variety of jobs including bring a labourer on a road-building gang (until an industrial accident cut short a promising career); stockroom assistant for a major IT company and a fruit picker, He also spent several years living and travelling in Canada and the USA before returning to England via Australia and the Far East to complete his studies. Simon Kernick currently lives in Oxfordshire with his wife and two young daughters and is just about to start...

daylehall 05.07.2007 · Read review
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