The Finance Blogger

Consolidation loans are a really great tool for consumers and business people who would like to reduce their payments into one easy to manage monthly payment and usually save money at the same time. You may have several loans at various interest rates. Or perhaps a couple of credit cards with unpaid balances. You are likely paying too much interest and your monthly payments may also be higher than they need to be. Consumers in this situation can apply for consolidation loans. If you have a good to excellent credit rating you can save hundreds or thousands of dollars a year.

Debt consolidation may also help to improve a consumer’s credit rating as well. With only one loan instead of several and lower monthly payments, they will be more affordable. The ability of the consumer to meet all of their monthly payments is quite a bit higher which reflects positively on their credit rating. Anytime you miss a payment, your credit rating will slip several notches. This makes it more difficult to obtain a loan and driving the interest rate up as well. Demonstrating that you can meet payment requirements over an extended time frame also helps your credit rating.

Secured Consolidation Loans

A popular method by consumers to enable debt consolidation is to use the equity in their home as collateral. This ensures that the consolidation loan is secured. It allows the lender to provide a much lower interest rate to the consumer.  With low rates, the consumer may even find that their monthly payments decrease by several hundred dollars a month. This reduction can be very helpful with their monthly budget.

Consumers must realize that if they are unable to pay their monthly payments they could lose their homes. If they have used their home as equity for the mortgage or the loan, they could lose their homes. The lender will have the right with a secured loan or mortgage to sell your home. This happens in situations of nonpayment to recover the remaining amount that is still owed.

This can be very catastrophic for everyone and consumers should make every effort to meet all of their monthly payments. If you find yourself in this situation, talk to your lender and attempt to work out a solution that keeps you in your house without losing it. Eventually, you will need to make all of the payments on what you owe.

Avoid Credit Car Debt

Use consolidation loans wisely and once you have consolidated all of your debt into one loan, avoid running up the balances on your credit cards again, or you will be faced with exactly the same problems you just got out of. Credit cards have very high-interest rates and consumers end up paying a great deal of money for interest charges if the unpaid balance goes beyond the due date.

In addition, as soon as you pay less than the full balance by the statement due date, interest is calculated on the unpaid balance from the date the items were first charged to the card. The amount of interest is often much larger than most people expect and then it is even more difficult to pay the total amount owed.

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