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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.

* 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

The famous phrase “the money I was out of control” or “money burning me” has to do with the lack of planning and cost control. Read the rest of this entry »

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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