But, not recognizing the habit and digging
yourself into lots of credit card debt or not having emergency savings will have long term negative consequences.
Not exact matches
A
lot of freshly graduated students quickly get themselves
into the unholy tri-fecta
of debt: car loans, mortgages and
credit card debt.
Of course, rolling
credit card debt into a 30 - year mortgage isn't actually paying it off, but the monthly payments will be a
lot lower, and if you're lucky and your home appreciates further, you can pay it off fully when you sell the property and still have paid a
lot less interest.
Assuming that you aggressively pay off the
credit card debt and do not get
into any new
credit card debt during this promotional period then the balance transfer option can potentially save you a
lot of money.
People who have
lots of credit card debt probably don't have the self - discipline necessary to put money
into a savings account.
Converting
credit card debt with an average interest rate
of 20 %
into a personal loan at 12 % will save you a
lot of money by itself.
With a Chapter 13 bankruptcy, we take the amount you are in arrears (whether it is mortgage only,
lot rent only, or a combination
of the two), your unsecured
debt (such as
credit cards, personal loans, payday loans, etc), and wrap it up
into a payment plan you can afford.
Just to put this
into perspective, it's important to remember that while your 300,000 miles can buy a
lot of free travel, it's nowhere near the equivalent
of your $ 60,000
credit card debt.