I won’t advise anyone despite the condition to take loan, even taking loan for business is scary because if the business doesn’t succeed the person will now be more indebted, a friend of mine used the last asset the father left for him to take a loan with the mindset of starting a business, he was given 23million naira after about 6months into the business everything crashed.
Your friend got it wrong. It very bad taking a loan to start a business. No matter how knowledgeable you are on that business, you shouldn't take a loan to start it. Alot of challenges may arise as it's a new business. Getting customers alone may be a problem for a year. Loan can be taken on an already flourishing business to booast your interest or to support the business. To be sincere, most of this successful businessmen we are looking today get loans from banks and government for their businesses. Do you think Dangote as rich as he is don't take a loan? And mind you there is always a clear difference between a good debt and a bad debt.
Loan is always easy to collect but paying back is the issue and mind you once the date of expiration of that loan reach the lenders will disturb you to the extent you can run mad and lots of interest will accumulate depending on the terms of agreement,
Well, collecting a loan is easy as you said so far you meet up with the various criteria. But paying may not be easy sometimes but with a better plans for your loan payment, you can pay with ease. Most time when I get a loan , I always look for two ways repayment plans. I don't get loan without plans. So if one doesn't work, then the other works. My two repayment plans can hardly fail me at the same time.
my humble advice is for people to cut their coat according to their size, accumulate wealth gradually, don’t be pushed into taking loan with the mindset of increasing your financial status overnight or because you have a pressing need, always take things gradually.
With the present situation of this country, you can hardly see people without loan. Try to check through the forum, you will even see that we have much high rank members with loan debt. I don't see anything bad in taking a loan if interest isn't much when you are highly in need of money for important purpose and you also have a reasonable two or more repayment plans.