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tips for attorney debt negotiation
- Be honest (no lie) but has your financial situation unfavorably.
- If you are considering bankruptcy declare yourself, make it known, but not incurring anyfurther debt after saying or not you declare yourself bankrupt.
- Never say where you work or what your bank.
- Do not hire a lawyer if you’re not sure you’re better off than your creditor.
- If the creditor says it agreed to negotiate and complete debt cancellation, make surethat once the agreed payments are made on your account statement showing that the debt has been canceled altogether.
- Chances are you have to pay taxes on the debt cancellation. The creditor will send youinformation at the end of the accounting year and have to declare profits from the debt cancellation.
Debt Consolidation
What is the purpose of debt consolidation?
The main objective is to get a loan with lower interest rates and lower monthly payments without risking your property.
The debt consolidation loans are useful for people with high interest on their debts and those who have difficulty paying bills each month.
Main advantages of debt consolidation
Join all your debts into one: Suppose you have five different things, the mortgage on your house, car loan, personal loan and some money in two credit cards, you need to be aware of each of those debts and pay 5 bills each month. With debt consolidation your debts will be consolidated into 5 one thus need to pay only one bill each month, so it will be easier to plan and budget your expenses.
Reducing the average interest rate on the total amount: With five different debts, the higher interest rate can be up to 18% and the lowest interest rate may be 3.5%. After consolidation, the consolidated debt may have an interest rate of only 3.5%, so your average interest rate is significantly reduced and therefore your overall debt and you have to pay each month.
The debt consolidation loans can reduce the total amount of money you pay monthly, that is, after consolidation pay less money in the single monthly payment that you pay now to add all your monthly payments.
Try to avoid paying loans they ask very high monthly amounts or promise you a very large reduction of your debt, they are very risky.