Sunday, January 25, 2009

DIY credit repair vs. professional credit aid

By Ricardo Mendiola

If you like many other people have found yourself with not so perfect credit, take heart, because you are not alone. You will be alone however if you choose to ignore the importance of credit repair, because in the end you will not have anything left or any future to work towards. The modern world that we live in today is based on credit, and if you lost it, you are going to need to work hard to start to get it back.

That being said, the amount of credit repair you need to perform is going to vary depending on what your current situation is. If you only have managed to lower your score from a good to a fair, getting it repaired back to your comfort zone should not be very difficult at all. However, if since your entry onto the credit market, you have gone from good to bad, your work may be a bit more complicated as you first need to figure out your exact standing in monetary value before you decide how to proceed.

If this credit repair scenario sounds like yours, most likely you have good financial habits as you are not sinking in debt and/or at the bottom of the credit chain. You probably just need to refine your financial habits a little more and give the changes to take effect, thus helping your score to get fixed up a little. Learning from your mistakes is the best way to seek improvement.

This may lead you to wonder about the many ads and banners you see advertising quick credit repair online and lead you to believe there are other options than the one of hard work and perseverance. Nope. Actually, if you choose to use these scams, you can end up with less money than you started with, or with more debt and behind bars.

If the reason your credit score is low is because you can't afford to pay your bills on time, you need to cut back, right now. Unfortunately, often times when you start with credit repair you will have to let some things go. If the oil gasket is bad on a car you have had for years, you would not hang on to it right? So don't hang onto your expensive lifestyle. Drop the cable, drop the dinners out, drop the designer labels. Once you get your ratings back up, you may find the cash to enjoy some of these again once you are out of debt, but for now, you have no choice.

Why not attack the insecure credit consumer? You are nervous about starting credit repair and getting a low interest loan, or a loan period faster, so you pay the fifty dollars to learn how to get your credit repaired, only there is no information. You pay with your credit card to a random bank account, and in return get a short five page set of essays that will do nothing to help you. Now you have an empty wallet, and a useless purchase with money you don't have.

Thus, you will have less debt total and you can start making your payments on time again. This is when a credit repair professional should be brought into the equation, when there simply is no other way out. It will leave a mark on your credit report record, but not as huge as the one you will leave if you don't start to try and repair your credit.

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