Its extremely easy to use credit cards beyond your ability to pay for the debt, especially when credit card companies are charging high interest rates on the amount you charge. If you happen to make a late payment, then youll be paying even more with late fees on top of your monthly payments and interest.
How To Settle Your Debts For Less Than You Owe
When your finances seem to have overtaken your life and you find yourself unable to make your payments each month, before you decide to declare bankruptcy you should attempt to obtain debt settlements with each of your creditors. A debt settlement is when a creditor agrees to accept less than the total balance owed in a lump sum payment, in order to close out the account and have it reported to the credit bureaus as paid.
How To Keep Your ‘get Out Of Debt’ Resolutions This Year
Getting out of debt is one of the top New Years resolutions made every year. Unfortunately, like many New Years resolutions, most people generally forget about or give up on their resolution to get out of debt before the first month is even up. Here are some tips to help you keep your ‘get out of debt’ resolution this year:
High Yield Savings Accounts
Savings accounts are operated by a commercial bank or mutual savings bank, and are backed by the FDIC up to the limits indicated. Money in savings accounts earn interest over time, helping to grow your wealth. The amount of interest savings accounts earn is dependent upon the type of savings account and the establishment where you save your money. Interest rates are also dependent upon the economys current condition.
How Debt Consolidation Loans Save Money
A debt consolidation loan makes it possible for an individual to pay off their other debts and make a single payment each month rather than multiple payments to each individual creditor. Basically, you apply for a single debt consolidation loan that can pay for each of your credit card or unsecured debts, use the money to pay the accounts in full, and then make one payment to the new debt consolidation loan.
How Do People Get Into Debt?
There are two main ways that people find themselves crushed by the weight of their debts. Some people find that debt hit them like a ton of bricks when they lost their job, or experienced a medical issue that resulted in the inability to work or excessive medical expenses. Other people find that debt has sort of snuck up on them, over years of casually using credit cards for little purchases that they just didnt have the cash to pay for; or from taking on large purchases…
Five Tips For Improving Your Credit Score
You probably thought once you graduated from school you would be done with report cards. In the adult world, a new type of report card determines whether youll be grounded or not- its your credit report. If your credit score doesnt meet the grade, creditors will ground you and either completely refuse to lend you money or lend you money at extremely high interest rates.
Five Ways To Stop Living Paycheck To Paycheck
Over 1 million Americans file for personal bankruptcy every year. The average American household has 10 credit cards. People are living above their means. Americans are drowning in debt and the problem is getting worse. Many people are foreclosing on their homes and will be forced to live on the street because they are in so much debt.
Freeze Your Credit!
Several states allow individuals to freeze their credit report- which prohibits credit from being issued in their names. While some states, including Texas, Illinois, Washington and Vermont, only allow credit freezes if the individual has already been the victim of identity theft- other states, including California, New York, New Jersey, Louisiana, Maine, North Carolina and Colorado.
Even People With Good Credit Are Penalized
By now everyone is aware of the Vantage credit scoring system developed by the three major credit bureaus: Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. The system grades consumers on a scale of A-F. I have done extensive research, but have yet to find out how lenders will use this score, or which lenders will choose to use the Vantage score as opposed to the FICO score.
Diversified Porfolios
Anyone you talk to about investments will probably tell you the same thing: Dont put all your eggs into one basket! This cliché simply means that when you are investing, you should not put all of your money into a single company; or a single industry. This technique of investing is called diversification, but there is more to diversification than just following the cliché.
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