It depends on the loan and your current credit. Remember that by co-signing a loan, you're taking liability for the contract. The bank looks at each one of these as a credit risk, and therefore will limit your purchasing power based on the amount of collateral you have in contrast to the amount of the loan, and your risk potential (or credit score). For instance, if you co-sign on a sibling's $30K loan, but only have a yearly income of $40K and have no house, you're likely to NOT be able to qualify for a decent mortgage rate. To them, it's YOUR liability!
Yes since it will show up on your credit record as your debt. You are fully responsible for any loan that you co-sign.
Yes, it will affect your debt to income ratio.
No.
Never cosign a loan. While I agree that one should NOT cosign. cosigning can hurt or help. Remember that if they do not pay you have to. Cosigning will affect your credit and count towards your debt to income ratio and show as an open joint auto loan. You might be turned down to get your own auto loan without a cosigner if you cosign.
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Yes since it will show up on your credit record as your debt. You are fully responsible for any loan that you co-sign.
Yes, it will affect your debt to income ratio.
No.
Yes.
Never cosign a loan. While I agree that one should NOT cosign. cosigning can hurt or help. Remember that if they do not pay you have to. Cosigning will affect your credit and count towards your debt to income ratio and show as an open joint auto loan. You might be turned down to get your own auto loan without a cosigner if you cosign.
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only if your cosigning
It depends on what kind of loan. Generally, the answer is no, it does not, but the divorce may have an adverse effect on the separate credit scores, and it would be the lowering of the credit score that might make one ineligible for cosigning.
There is not a strict set of requirements for cosigning. You will need to be over 18 and the lender will need to believe you are a good credit risk. This is based on your credit score. You should be concerned with the obligations cosigning a car loan will create for you. See the Related Link for "Experian: Advice on Cosigning a Loan" for info on this.
There is not a strict set of requirements for cosigning. You will need to be over 18 and the lender will need to believe you are a good credit risk. This is based on your credit score. You should be concerned with the obligations cosigning a car loan will create for you. See the Related Link for "Experian: Advice on Cosigning a Loan" for info on this.
Cosigning for a loan is dangerous to do. A true business loan should be under a business name itself, a personal guantee may be required in some situations. To build business credit search for a mentoring service online.
The only way to be removed from the obligation of cosigner is for the loan to be refinanced.