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If you have a bad credit record, that indicates to a lender that you are likely not to repay your loan. If you have no credit record, a lender cannot determine whether you are likely to repay your loan.

In either of the above cases, the lender may want you to find someone who has a good credit record that indicates he or she is likely to repay the loan to act as your co-signer. A co-signer becomes equally responsible for repaying the loan with you. If you fail to repay some or all of the loan, the lender can require the co-signer to repay it as if the co-signer had taken out the loan him or herself. (The co-signer can then take action to try to recover the payments from you, but that does not concern the lender.)

The co-signer is a person with good credit (or at least better credit than you) to whom the lender can turn for repayment if you fail to repay. Having a co-signer makes the lender more confident that they can get repaid.

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