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While nothing beats getting an interest-free loan from your parents, this is something you could put on a credit card - especially if you're able to pay it back
by exhilaration 10y ago
While nothing beats getting an interest-free loan from your parents, this is something you could put on a credit card - especially if you're able to pay it back it back with your first few paychecks before any interest accrues. (Assuming, of course, you can get a card with a decent credit limit while still a student.)
- eropple 10y agoIn 2010, when I graduated, it was still real hard to get a rental office to take a credit card. And $1500 + $1K in moving expenses + $1K in furniture would have been prohibitive on the $2K credit-limit card I was able to get as a college student. I paid it back pretty quickly, because tech job, but I couldn't have floated it.
- douche 10y agoUnfortunately, a lot of those kinds of expenses are precisely the ones that you can't float on credit as easily, and must have cash in hand (or in check) to cover. I've never rented anywhere that would let you pay a security deposit or first-month's rent on a card. Even things like movers often enough have worked on a cash or check basis, in my experience.
- tedajax 10y ago> (Assuming, of course, you can get a card with a decent credit limit while still a student.) This is the key :)