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One of the main questions which arise out of the decision to take out a debt consolidation loan, is "will debt consolidation affect my credit?" The answer to that will be yes. Because you are in debt, it is more than likely that your credit rating has taken some bad hits. Your credit rating score is looked at by creditors, and it gives them some idea of the risk they would take in loaning you some money. This is the kind of thing which will affect repayment rates, especially if your credit score is bad because you have defaulted on many of lines of credit. When faced with debt, that is almost inevitable, but the truth is that your credit score can be repaired. By taking all of your debts and consolidating them into one with a loan, will actually be a positive step forward in repairing your credit score. So, if you are asking "will debt consolidation affect my credit" then, yes it will do in a positive manner. The initial positive is that you are doing something to actually fix your credit in the first place. When you take all of your loans to a debt consolidation agency, they will negotiate with creditors to try and lower the amount of outstanding debt. When everything has been arranged, they will then fix payments to your creditors in order to get them off your back. The creditors will be happy they have got their money, and by closing several lines of credit, it can help improve your score. Simply by making payments to a debt can improve your credit score. It is the defaulting on payments which is detrimental to the overall rating. While the credit score may not truly reflect the fact that you are doing something about your debts, a more comprehensive credit check, the type which is done by companies, will reflect that. The important thing to remember is that you have been in debt and caused a lot of damage to your credit rating and that will affect the amounts you can borrow. But borrowing more often leads into more debt, so taking a long time to boost your credit score is a good thing to do. So the question of "will debt consolidation affect my credit?" becomes more than the sum of its parts, when you apply it to a long term solution. If you are in debt, or if you are working your way out of debt with debt consolidation loans, then ideally you do not even want to be thinking about applying for credit elsewhere. A debt consolidation loan will help with your financial burden now, and while lessening the monthly outgoings, you will still be in debt, and it is not a free reign to go out and spend unwisely the extra cash in your pocket. It is bad credit choices which usually lead to serious debt, so "will debt consolidation affect my credit?" Yes, just as much as debt itself will. |
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