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Obviously, you are looking for solutions
to your debt problems or you would not be here at the Debt
Consolidation Shop. Millions of Americans have faced problems
with paying their bills. Sometimes the solutions to these
problems can seem elusive.
Fortunately, there are many online resources
to help you with your plight. There are companies that offer
debt negotiation, reduction, consolidation and elimination.
The trick is in deciding which solutions are right for your
particular situation. You will find a list of these resources
on our home page.
In general, debt consolidation and negotiation
experts will help you to reduce the amount of your debt, lower
the interest rates that you are paying and lower your monthly
payments. Your monthly payments can be combined into one payment
at a lower interest rate and therefore, a lower monthly payment.
Debt consolidation loans do not lower
your payments but they do help to lower your payments. For
instance, let's say that you owe $5,000 on one credit card
that you are paying 18% interest for and another that you
owe $3,000 on that you are paying 21% interest on. You have
a car loan with a balance of $12,000 and you are paying 9%
interest on the loan. Lets also assume that you have a college
loan that you still owe $24,000 on and the interest is 7%.
With a debt consolidation loan you might
be able to pay off all of these loans. Let's say that the
debt consolidation loan is issued with an 8% interest rate.
Right away you can see that it might not be such a good idea
to include your college loan in the debt consolidation package
since the original loan was at only 7%. However, it doesn't
take a mathematician to see that combining all the other debts
at 8% would save you some money.
Other debt consolidation solutions that
you may have at your disposal would include home equity loans.
If you happen to be a homeowner you might be able to get an
equity loan to pay off your debts. In general, these loans
are issued at a much lower interest rate. Let's say that you
can get a home equity loan at 6% interest. In this scenario,
you could go ahead and pay off that college loan that was
originally issued at 7% since you would be saving some money.
If you are looking for a debt consolidation
or home equity loan then a great place to get started would
be with E-LOAN .
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