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Is it better to try for lower payments through your credit card company than to file bankruptcy?
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∙ 13y ago
Always. In brief, bankruptcy will follow you for the next seven (7) years and make it difficult (if not impossible) for you to get any consumer credit during that time.
If you are having trouble making payments, call your credit card company and let them know. In the process, help them understand that you want to be a good and responsible customer and ask them to help you figure out a plan that will meet your budget while preserving their interest in what you owe.
There are also nonprofit credit counselors that can help you with the process.
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Which hurts your credit worse bankruptcy or late payments?
Late payment will drive your credit score into the ground rapidly. Many people question filing a Bankruptcy even though their credit is shot through late payments on mortgages and other bills. Filing Bankruptcy put all collection activity on hold and your accounts show current and up to date as long as you make your payments on time. Most people are surprised tofine their credit in much better shape after a BK than before with a much higher credit score Late payments can always be corrected, and this will be reflected on your credit file. Bankruptcy, however, will stay on your credit file for six years.
How does surrendering your house in chapter 7 affect your credit report?
If you are surrendering your house anyways, it is usually better for your credit score if you do it through bankruptcy. If your house is foreclosed on before you file bankruptcy, then your credit score is hit by both the foreclosure and the bankruptcy. If you let your house go back through bankruptcy, instead, then your credit score is only hit by a bankruptcy.
How long does it take for your credit to get better after you are discharged from Chapter 13 bankruptcy?
Your credit score starts going up the minute the bankruptcy is filed. Debts incurred after the filing (even the day after), are exempt from the bankruptcy. If you make house and/or car payments on time, your score goes up Legally, they can hold it for up to 10 years.
Your mom is a co-signor on your car loan and is filing bankruptcy you have always made the payments and still owe money on the car What happens to the car Do you still make payments What happens?
(Depending on where you live) You can: 1. She can elect not to include the car, and retain property of it. 2. If you are 1/2 way finished of payments you can contact the lending agency and request sole responsibility of the lien 3.Return the car to the title company If you keep the car, you will still be held liable for the payments. If you no longer want the car or to make payments, you will need to release it back to the title company. Another thought too....your credit is tied up in this deal. Her credit will be affected by the bankruptcy but if you keep the car and keep the payments up you'll get the credit and benefit by doing the right thing by paying it off. You'll be much better off doing that. If you turn the car in I think it will hurt your credit. You still have to pay if you keep the car.
Is financial debt solutions a better solution fo filing bankruptcy?
Debt solutions or consolidation is something you should look into before filing bankruptcy. Consolidationg your debt allows you to make smaller payments over a set amount of time and can positively effect your credit.
Which hurts your credit worse bankruptcy or late payments?
Late payment will drive your credit score into the ground rapidly. Many people question filing a Bankruptcy even though their credit is shot through late payments on mortgages and other bills. Filing Bankruptcy put all collection activity on hold and your accounts show current and up to date as long as you make your payments on time. Most people are surprised tofine their credit in much better shape after a BK than before with a much higher credit score Late payments can always be corrected, and this will be reflected on your credit file. Bankruptcy, however, will stay on your credit file for six years.
If an account is closed by a credit grantor why would the card holder continue to make payments after bankruptcy findings are closed?
The card holder is under no legal obligation for the card holder to continue making payments after filing for bankruptcy, unless the case is dismissed without a discharge. There are some who believe that they can improve their credit rating by pay off debts that were discharged in a bankruptcy, but I believe there are better methods to reestablish credit after bankruptcy.
How does surrendering your house in chapter 7 affect your credit report?
If you are surrendering your house anyways, it is usually better for your credit score if you do it through bankruptcy. If your house is foreclosed on before you file bankruptcy, then your credit score is hit by both the foreclosure and the bankruptcy. If you let your house go back through bankruptcy, instead, then your credit score is only hit by a bankruptcy.
How long does it take for your credit to get better after you are discharged from Chapter 13 bankruptcy?
Your credit score starts going up the minute the bankruptcy is filed. Debts incurred after the filing (even the day after), are exempt from the bankruptcy. If you make house and/or car payments on time, your score goes up Legally, they can hold it for up to 10 years.
Your mom is a co-signor on your car loan and is filing bankruptcy you have always made the payments and still owe money on the car What happens to the car Do you still make payments What happens?
(Depending on where you live) You can: 1. She can elect not to include the car, and retain property of it. 2. If you are 1/2 way finished of payments you can contact the lending agency and request sole responsibility of the lien 3.Return the car to the title company If you keep the car, you will still be held liable for the payments. If you no longer want the car or to make payments, you will need to release it back to the title company. Another thought too....your credit is tied up in this deal. Her credit will be affected by the bankruptcy but if you keep the car and keep the payments up you'll get the credit and benefit by doing the right thing by paying it off. You'll be much better off doing that. If you turn the car in I think it will hurt your credit. You still have to pay if you keep the car.
Is financial debt solutions a better solution fo filing bankruptcy?
Debt solutions or consolidation is something you should look into before filing bankruptcy. Consolidationg your debt allows you to make smaller payments over a set amount of time and can positively effect your credit.
What type of student loans can you file under bankruptcy?
A law was passed in 1998 that has made it even more difficult to discharge a student loan in bankruptcy. It is incredibly difficult to discharge a loan in this way, and the only approach is to convince a court that repaying the loan would create a severe hardship for you. You would have a better chance of cancelling the loans or postponing payments through forebearance or deferrment.
If you continue to make payments will bank continue to pay taxes and insurance from escrow if you do not reaffirm your mortgage after chapter 7 bankruptcy?
If you continue making the regular mortgage payments, including the escrow amounts, you are reaffirming the debt. It would be better to formally file a reaffirmation agreement that is approved by the court.
Where can you find a letter of hardship to a mortgage company?
Just explain your situation to them and ask them if you can make intrest only payments until things get better. They're usually good about that and they will just tack the payments on to the end of the note.
Should you let your car get repossessed or file bankruptcy or what if you wrecked your car with no insurance and you are 3 months behind on payments?
The Lender may or may not want to repo a wreck. Bankruptcy, same deal. Call the lender, tell them what the car looks like, and let them decide. ___ File bankruptcy if you are buried in unsecured debt, not to save the car. Especially a wrecked car. ___ "Repossession" looks slightly better (not MUCH better) on a credit report than a Chapter 7. Let it get repossessed.
Which is better to file bankruptcy or voluntary repossession?
file bankruptcy that bay you wont loose your stuff
Should you file bankruptcy when there is a foreclosure and pending divorce situation and you do not want to keep the house and can not repay any money still owed to the lender?
If the mortgage is in both names, or if there is significant joint debt, you are better off filing bankruptcy jointly before the divorce is final. If the mortgage company forgives the balance, it will count as income to you and you will have to pay taxes on it in the following year, unless you file bankruptcy. Or the mortgage company can sue on the deficiency and get a judgment good for 10 or 20 years. Unless you file bankruptcy.
