If you’ve made some mistakes in the past about your credit, get ready for the facts about bad loan loans. You should first try to judge how bad your credit is before pressing the panic button. Very often, bad credit items that appear on your credit report can be challenged and sometimes removed. In addition, errors in your credit report can adversely affect your credit score and place you in the category of high credit risk. Items that are good news for you but don’t appear on your credit report (or in one or the other credit bureau file about your credit history) can cost you some valuable points. Last but not least, accepting bad advice from well-meaning relatives or friends can lower your credit score and make you a candidate for bad credit loans.
Bad news first
Let’s look at these ways to improve your credit score one by one. But first, let’s get rid of the hardcore issues. If you’ve had bad credit problems in the past and know you’ve made some wrong decisions that may have put you in bankruptcy or wage garnishment, it will be almost impossible to fix your situation in the short term. Medical emergencies also have inevitable consequences, but none of this means you won’t be able to find a lender of last resort.
If you’re reading this, you’re probably at the point where you’ve decided to reverse your spiral credit history, but know for sure that this will take time and cost you money. Bad lenders equate you with high risk and assign a high interest rate to the type of loan you’re looking for to offset some of the risk that you may not repay their loan on time.
Bad credit car loan
Let’s say you’re in the market for a car. You have to make a high down payment for a bad loan car loan. I’ve heard of down payment requests of up to $3,000, but that’s not the only problem you’re facing. Your interest rate on a bad loan car loan can range from 19% at the bottom to 29% at the top end. A used car with high mileage could end up costing you $400.00 or more per month in monthly payments. To minimize the damage from these high rates, I would suggest that you call several lenders first. They usually sell and finance the product locally. If you find one whose maximum interest rate is in the low twenties, you may be able to save a significant amount of interest payments. However, you need to make sure they report your payment history to the credit bureaus, as this will help improve your credit score, provided you pay on time.
Bad credit personal loan
Bad credit personal loans are issued by a variety of sources. Again, their focus will be on charging you a high interest rate to cover the risk of your loan default. Payday loans are an example of bad credit personal loans that carry tremendously high interest rates because they are calculated over a short period of time and are designed to take you to the next paycheck.
Other types of personal loans include equity-backed loans. Let’s say you have a house or other asset that is almost or completely paid off. Local and regional banks or home equity specialists lend you money with your asset as collateral. Although a loan of this type is safer for the lending institution, your previous credit history will force you into a bracket that pays somewhere around 21% despite the use of your collateral.
Bad loan mortgage loan
This is the big ticket item that will cost you dearly over the term of the loan. Consumers with credit scores above 650 may find that they are paying six percent for their mortgage loan, for example, depending on the interest rates in place at the time of their purchase. If you have bad credit, you should be willing to pay two and a half to three percentage points more and sometimes double digits on your mortgage interest. Depending on the prevailing economic circumstances, it can definitely be very difficultTo obtain a mortgage. You can expect any lender looking at your loan application to expect you to have a significant down payment in hand, ranging from 10% to 20% of the value of the home you want to buy.
Not only should you expect a high interest rate, but you should also require your lender to purchase private mortgage insurance to cover the risk of default. If your down payment is higher than 20% of the cost of the home you buy, you may be able to negotiate the payment of PMI, even with a mortgage loan with bad credit.
Like a bad credit car loan, your history of on-time payments will begin to increase your credit score over time. In a record of good payments, you may be able to refinance at a cheaper interest rate. But before you even sign for your bad loan mortgage loan, be sure to check the penalties for getting out of the loan early. Prepayment penalties can be enormous and most people are so excited about getting a bad loan mortgage loan that they neglect to consider what could change in three years.
Cleaning up bad credit
Let’s say your situation is so bad that you can’t find a lender willing to lend you money. What’s next? You could wait a few years for bad credit positions on your credit report to drop, usually in seven years for most items. Or you could start the process of cleaning up your credit report, as even a difference of a few points on your credit report could make the difference between getting a loan or a rejection. If there are items on your credit report that are incorrect or should have been removed due to their age, write to the credit bureaus and request their removal. You are obliged by federal law to make these corrections.
Errors in your credit report can be caused by human error. An account with a bad history might appear in your report because a clerk entered a person’s Social Security number one. Rest assured, it happens. You might end up being charged with someone else’s court records, but you wouldn’t know until you see a copy of your credit report.
Add the good news
If you’ve paid out a defaulting account in the past but it doesn’t show up on your credit report, you should provide proof of payment to the credit reference agencies and have their records corrected. That can mean a few points on your credit report.
You may find that a car license you paid for was never reported to the credit bureau, and even though your payments were all on time, you don’t get the benefits of that good credit history. Contact the lender and ask them if they will report your credit file to the offices.
A word of caution
Well-meaning friends and family often “hear” that you should do this or that to increase your credit report and improve your chances of getting bad credit. The most popular advice is that you should close your credit card accounts. This may sound reasonable, but it can be detrimental to you. Make sure that if you take this route, you don’t close the accounts with the longest history. It may be safer to close newer accounts, but you should know that a portion of your credit report is calculated by looking at the ratio of outstanding debt to total available credit. Close some accounts, lower your available balance and your score could drop.
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Wendy is now a financial analyst and writer. Wendy has been writing about finance and personal finance since she was a sophomore in high school. She has also been writing for several online publications and published in The Huffington Post, and Forbes Woman.
Wendy is a credentialed financial analyst and has experience working with financial institutions and businesses. Wendy is also a certified financial planner. When Wendy's not writing, she enjoys tending to her many plants, watching TV, and spending time with her family.
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