A general rule of thumb with secured credit is: if you wish to keep your property, you need to
keep making payments to your creditors.
Not exact matches
Just as
creditors want
to see that you can
make on - time
payments, and that you can
keep from utilizing too much of your available credit, they also want
to observe your ability
to handle different types of credit accounts.
You may rebuild your credit by
making payments to all your
creditors on time and
keeping account balances low relative
to the credit limit.
The most important thing about a chapter 13 case is that it will allow you
to keep valuable property, especially your home and car, which might otherwise be lost, if you can
make the
payments which the bankruptcy law requires
to be
made to your
creditors.
While your exemptions allow you
to keep property even in a chapter 7 case, your exemptions do not effect the right of a mortgage holder or car loan
creditor to take the property
to cover the debt if you are behind or do not
make future
payments.
When you are mandated
to repay your debts
to several different
creditors at one time it can become difficult
to keep up with the
payments that you are
making to these entities.
Perhaps you were worried about
keeping your car and chose
to pay it off before filing without
making payments to your other
creditors.
In most cases, if you have equity in your house, a consumer proposal is a better option, since you can
make a plan with your
creditors to make payments over a period of time as long as 60 months so that you can
keep your house.
Since
creditors have access
to both credit reports, you could have a hard time
making the
creditor believe the cosigner can't afford
to pay the debt if he or she has
kept up with all their other
payments.
You might owe $ 5,000, but if the
creditor is concerned that you will be unable
to keep making the required monthly
payments, and that you might end up defaulting altogether, the
creditor might agree
to take $ 3,000 right now.
In addition, while a bankruptcy can prevent
creditors from contacting you while the bankruptcy is in process, action can be taken during a bankruptcy
to ensure you
keep making your child support
payments.
For example,
to keep a car the debtor may choose
to redeem the debt (pay the secured
creditor the value of the collateral in exchange for a release by the
creditor of their lien) or reaffirm the debt (sign a reaffirmation agreement and continue
to make car
payments).
This can
make your overall situation more stressful, increase your debts, and
make it difficult
to keep to payment arrangements with your
creditors.
If you do not
keep up these
payments, the secured
creditor can try
to make you bankrupt, which could put your family home at risk.
We then
make payments to your individual
creditors on your behalf, helping
to simplify your finances and
making it easier
to keep up with your monthly
payment.
Make sure your
creditors are reporting your
payment history properly
to the bureaus, and always
keep an eye on your company's credit reports.
Whatever the reason for your bad credit history, the first step toward repairing it is applying for a card
made especially for your situation and then, if approved,
making timely
payments and
keeping account balances low relative
to the credit limit with all your
creditors.
Patty was able
to make a compromise with her
creditors to avoid surplus income
payments and
keep her assets.
It can be triggered by a
payment or an adjustment of some kind or, as I suspect, the
creditor attempting
to keep the score down, either as punishment or
to make it more likely
to get paid
to raise the score.
If you own property, your
creditor may be able
to apply for a charging order even if you have
kept up
to date with the
payments you have been ordered
to make.
So in order
to keep your house or your car, you will have
to make the
payments, as scheduled
to you secured
creditors.
Keeping up
to date with the
payments a court has told you
to make stops
creditors from using most kinds of enforcement.
In certain cases, if the
creditors erased penalties while adding interest when you consolidated, this will be taken into account again if you fail
to keep making payments.
With just one
payment to make each month, you can simplify your finances,
keep up with your
payments more easily, and remove the stress of owing lots of money
to lots of different
creditors.
Consistently
making only minimum credit card
payments is less dramatic but still harmful, and when combined with a high debt -
to - income ratio, warns
creditors that you might have trouble
keeping up with your
payments.