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Debt Consolidation Loans

Qualifications for a Debt Consolidation Loan

You might think that having a huge pile of debt is qualification enough to get a debt consolidation loan. However, debt consolidation loans require borrowers to have collateral. Some lenders might suggest putting your house up for collateral if you have nothing else, but that's not smart. If you're a homeowner, the best way for you to get out of debt is to get a debt consolidation mortgage, but that's a story for another page.

Basically, the kind of collateral people put up for debt consolidation loans is a car, a boat, an RV or something similar that's paid for in full. That way, if borrowers default on their debt consolidation loans, the lender has something they can sell to recover their money. Isn't that what you would do to protect yourself if you were a lender of debt consolidation loans?

Why Debt Consolidation Loans are a Good Choice

Some people believe that debt consolidation loans just replace one set of debts with another. But there are definite benefits to getting a debt consolidation loan. For instance, you can pay off all your unsecured debts immediately, thereby reducing your stress. In addition, you're replacing several monthly payments with only one. But the best reason to get a debt consolidation loan is because the interest rate is much lower than what you're usually paying on your unsecured debts, which is usually 14% (if you're lucky) or more (which is typically the case). But the interest rate on debt consolidation loans is usually in the single digits--particularly if you have good credit. (And yes, you can have good credit and still be in debt.) Then you have the loan paid off in five years.

So what do you do if you don't have collateral? No worries. There's always debt consolidation. A debt consolidation program doesn't have any qualifications whatsoever--other than you being in debt. What happens is a debt consolidation company contacts your creditors to get you deep reductions on your current interest rates. Sometimes they can even get past fees removed. Then they combine the new, lower balances so that you only make one monthly payment to them instead of all those other monthly payments to your creditors. Your payment to the debt consolidation company takes care of all those for you. As a result of all the reductions, you are debt free in about five years. Pretty sweet!

So as you can see, there really are options for everyone when it comes to getting rid of your debt.

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