subject: When Debt Consolidation Can Help. [print this page] Many people seem to forget when taking out a credit card or loan that they already have financial commitments that they must pay.
Many people seem to regard their debts as totally seperate entities totally unrelated one to the other.
When the individual arranged the 220,000 mortgage which they could easily afford at the time they could in fact afford it that is if they had stopped simply at the new mortgage.
However after moving into the new house that they arranged the mortgage to buy, they fully recarpeted the property, and bought all new furnishings for the public areas and the bedrooms.
The garden was replanted and patio pots planted with little rose bushes.
A new conservatory was built and decking installed outside the patio doors leading on to the rear garden of the property.
To suit and fit in with the new up market neighbourhood there is now a flashy sporty car sitting at the door in an attempt to keep up with the neighbours.
As such there is more than £220,000 mortgage to be paid every month and the credit card at 5,000.
There is now 15,000 hire purchase for the new furniture, the 10,000 hire purchase for the floor coverings, the home improvement loan of The new onservatory cost 17,000 and then there is the loan to buy a car costing £20,000 and the loan to pay for the decking cost £5,000.
This gives debts totally 72,000, and it is all very well that the new house is nicely and comfortably furnished and there is a smart looking car in your drive way but when the repayments of all these debts are totalled up the monthly sum being paid out each month is staggeringly high.
For someone with a high income who can comfortably afford the repayments there is no problem but for the average person 72,000 is a great deal of debt and after a while most would struggle with the repayments.
Credit cards have interest rates normally in excess of 20% to more than 40% and the home improvement loan if arranged by thre home improvement company will have an interest rate of about 25%.
Hapinees flies out the window and puts family life in chaos when debt problems become pressing.
Labouring under a burden of debt and even having to remember on which date in the month the numerous repayments have to be made becomes a burden.
Before the whole debt problem becomes intolerable, help should be sought in the form of debt consolidation.
Debt consolidation can be arranged by means of a consolidation loan whereby all the numerous pieces of debts are rolled into the one monthly payment and the combined debt of in this instance 72,000 is rolled in to the one payment each month at an interest rate of currently about 9% APR.
Consolidation loans come with good interest rates that are in fact a fraction of the rates for personal loans and credit cards and debt consolidation is very cost affective.
A remortgage can also be used for debt consolidation and a remortgage works in exactly the same way as a consolidation loan by combining all the other debts in to a single much lower monthly payment monthly.
Think carefully and decide if you really can easily afford the repayment before taking on debt.
If this advice is too late the next best course is to seek debt consolidation help.
by: Liz Moir
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