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1. Merge all your debts into one: Suppose you have five different things, the home mortgage, car loan, personal loan and some money on two credit cards, you need to be aware of each of those debts and pay 5 bills each month.

With debt consolidation your debts will be consolidated into five one, thus need to pay only one bill each month, making it easier to plan and budget your expenses.

2. Reducing the average interest rate on the total amount: With five different debts, the highest interest rate can be up to 18% and the lowest interest rate may be 3.5%.

After consolidation, the consolidated debt may have an interest rate of only 3.5%, so your average interest rate is significantly reduced and therefore your overall debt and you have to pay each month.

3. The debt consolidation loans can reduce the total amount of money you pay monthly, that is, after consolidation you pay less money in the single monthly payment than you pay now by adding all your monthly payments.

Try to avoid loans that ask you to pay very high monthly amounts or promise you a very large reduction in your debt, they are very risky.

* The consultant will consolidate all your debts into one payment, so you avoid having to deal with several creditors.

* The counselor will talk to you to know what your budget and prepare a plan to pay your consolidated debt according to your means.

Many debt consolidation companies offer free professional advice.

Fraud Debt Consolidation

Due to increasing debt in Spain has been experiencing rapid growth of businesses dedicated to debt consolidation, so be careful if you’re going to hire one of these companies to consolidate your debts.

Definition of debt consolidation: Debt consolidation involves obtaining a loan to pay other loans or credits (credit card, etc). With debt consolidation you can pay several debts into one monthly payment. Debt consolidation is only one solution for reducing your debt.

What is the purpose of debt consolidation?

The main objective is to get a lower interest loan with lower monthly payments without risking your property.

The debt consolidation loans are useful for people with high interest on your debts and the costs they pay the bills each month.

If you are not qualified for a consolidation of your debt yourself, you can hire a specialized company.
Sometimes it is very difficult to pay all our bills.

The Temptations make it easy to get into debt, but may not be as easy to leave them, and when more than one creditor, the situation can be quite overwhelming. One of the possible solutions to this situation is debt consolidation.

There are times when you yourself can do the consolidation, for example, when you can negotiate a lower interest rate for transferring credit card and other debts to this card from other cards with higher interest (watch out for transfer fees .) But other situations are more complicated and for which you may not feel qualified.

* If you are not qualified to do it yourself, you can hire a debt consolidation company.

* A coach will analyze your financial situation: number of unsecured loans (like credit card debt), number of guaranteed loans (mortgages, car loans), total amount of debt, interest rates, etc.

* The counselor will negotiate with your creditors to try to slow the amount of your debt.

You know, really, what is money? Do you know how to create the same?

Surely many may have a vague idea, but will feel really amazed at the complexity of the issue. At the time I also did a little definition or answer to those questions throughout the book I realized it really was a total ignorant about what I thought I knew.

With this last expression I leave a short “snack” on the money, I mentioned the concept of “thought he knew” and there precisely lies one of the main problems of money paradoxical.

The money is “a belief based on another belief” that simple piece of paper or coins is simply a belief on our part that we believe that for others is important. I propose a short exercise to better understand what I just mentioned:

Suppose you because of a plane crash ends up as a castaway in the middle of a desert island. Already for a few days began to despair, is just that even Wilson (friend of the famous ball in Tom Hanks movie “Cast Away) can help. Suddenly the water floating currency in two suitcases that happen to be yours.

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A few days ago I wanted to comment on the book I’m reading now, but the times I have been quite complicated. Fortunately and apparently troubled times and have somewhat subsided.

The book that I read today in my free time is called “The Future of Money” and the author of it is Bernard Lietaer. In this post I will talk a little about it and expose details that so far I found extremely interesting, especially the little stories or comments that are in between.

In itself the book had a major effect on me. I remember being in a bookstore looking for something interesting to read and I found it. Usually books qualify for the description of its back and even through a brief introduction, but I must stress that this is the first book from the prologue where I’ve been attracted to keep reading.

Above all it shows in small events as mentioned earlier various crises that have happened in the world and highlights the case of Argentina as one of the pioneers in this series of crises to come.

The book itself says three promises that are really interesting:

1) We understand the true role of money in a clear and simple language that anyone can understand.

2) We may answer questions such as why we have increasingly less time and money? Why are people obsessed with money? Why is increasing the global currency turbulence? Why scarce productive work? Among many others.

3) discover that there is another way to deal with the global economy and where each of us can take part (and we should be) for it.

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* Tip 1: bad and good habit Habit

Almost always the way to work, back in the car with a friend. I’m very protective of the people I love or anyone entering the car so we demand that you please use a seat belt, accidents are accidents and you never know when, where and with whom they will.

The first few months every day I had to ask my partner to put the belt, now you do unconsciously. This is a good habit, not using the belt a bad habit.

Financially the same thing. Bad habits can be compulsive or impulsive spending, debt, always use credit cards, not manage the finances, etc, etc, etc.

So the advice here is to try to target these bad financial habits you have and try to change them. If you smoke, surely you do out of habit, but when it is known that smoking is doing. Then with the money as well, you know when you are managing or using their money so that it can hurt.

Try making a list or write when you see those bad habits, then keep it in a place where the display.

* Tip 2: Have a spending plan

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On the other hand live in a society where spending money is what matters. Today there is so much consumption, which are not part of it (speaking of objects not very important) would be like being from another planet.

In a consumer society becomes very difficult not to fall into the temptation to spend on something, not to mention the publicity that comes into our heads and we tinker with all cables. You end up buying 15 phones for years always saying “this is just the cell that was in need.”

Another important factor in the family, a subject already talked a bit but to summarize, our home education can not always be the best. For example, I come from a family that has had many money problems, trying to help at this point many responses were negative.

Even when I talk about investing or generate new revenue by some members oppose and tell me what I have to do really. My question at this point is: What advice can you give me one person on money management, when that person has such financial problems?.

However, that education and financial advice has been passed from generation to generción creating the illusion that it is part of our tradition. The study, work and earn money. The investment for them is impossible, in fact the word “investment” in their heads do not have a specific meaning, because it is an issue which does not speak much.

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In today’s entry I will make a short introduction to the reason why many people have bad habits with money. In a way I will advise based on techniques or tools that I gave good results.

The idea is that you begin to choose among those options that best suit your needs and even create your own financial plan.

The picture today is to put a ticket on fire. Here in Argentina is often hear the phrase “Money burns me” as saying that we lose it easily and that is why I decided to create this post.

* Why do we have financial problems?

Not to the point of talking at the level of the national economy, but rather trying to take as the axis center the subject or the person who has the money, we can say that A or key facto in this process is you.

Robert Kiyosaki mentioned in many of his books that people are accustomed to bad money management. At this point I strongly agree with him. But the key question is: What factors contribute to our financial ignorance?

* The answer is simple: The financial education that gave us

Until today I have not seen in schools and universities are touching on money management topics and personal finance. Not touch on issues such as taxes, banking. Issues we deal with almost 80% of our lives. So people are forgetting an important education 80%.

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Most people have multiple debts and payments. We all know that we have a mortgage, car loan, card … But what almost nobody knows is how much money you actually how much time is left to pay and at what cost (interest rate) is paying those debts.

It is very appropriate that we keep a tight check on these data, to know at any time if our situation allows us to meet these debts.

Reports and to request a payment plan

The first thing we do is a list of all loans that we have, other periodic debts and insurance payments will be addressed (taxes, incidentals, etc..) Some of these debts relate to loans for which we paid interest and others do not.

Debt interest

For example, among the debts with interest are: mortgage, car loan, personal loan (for any expenses) and credit card.
Interest-free debts

Debts without interest but we have to pay monthly or other intervals, but we can plan because we know that exist, include: income tax, vehicle tax, tax on the rateable value, shares of the residents, vehicle insurance, home insurance and personal, car reviews (ITV, maintenance …) and so on.

Contingencies

And there will be another section of contingency, we can take into account, and which, although it is uncertain, we can sense in our experience. This is wise not to fall short in forecasting and to provide a sufficient contingency expense (if less then, that money already spent on other things.)

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In recent years, the housing market in Spain has enjoyed spectacular growth, both in terms of houses built and from the sales data from new and existing homes. This large increase was reflected in a large increase in the number of mortgage loans requested and granted. Credit institutions have seen and their profit rates reflected significant growth.

But with the slowdown in sales due to economic uncertainty, the high housing prices and the oversupply of housing, there has also been a decline in the number of mortgage applications.

Banking institutions in order to meet their objectives in terms of volume of loans, are forced to adopt new strategies to attract customers in a market are not as abundant. How? For taking away customers to the competition. If there are no new customers, he will have to convince those already in the mortgage market for transferring their mortgage to our organization: it is what is called subrogation of mortgage.

This war between the entities to grab customers, can be beneficial to the consumer, because the organization must offer more favorable conditions for new mortgages which they had before. On the one hand, some banks offer commission-free mortgages (cancellation, subrogation, etc..).

More advantageous interest including financial compensation that may be a percentage of total mortgage (1% – 2%) or a fixed amount (about 600 €). They also tend to offer the possibility of extending the repayment periods up to 35 or 40 years so that the monthly fees are lower.

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