You will need to start rebuilding your credit as soon as possible, but you really need to beware of new credit card
offers after filing bankruptcy.
Not exact matches
NEW YORK, N.Y. — The company that once
offered to sell you eight CDs for 1 cent has
filed for Chapter 11
bankruptcy protection
after almost 20 years of falling sales.
Many people have had to
file for
bankruptcy after hiring the services of unscrupulous companies claiming to
offer debt settlement services.
Creditor companies often send debtors
offers for credit cards
after they
filed for
bankruptcy knowing that it will be 8 years before they can
file for
bankruptcy again.
Most of the credit card
offers you can get
after filing bankruptcy come with very high interest rates, annual fees, monthly maintenance fees, lower limits, and short payment periods.
Three years
after filing bankruptcy, borrowers get
offers with annual percentage rates (APR) 19 points higher than those without.
Fortunately, there is a way to use the equity in her condo to
offer her creditors a proposal; a deal to pay them something, not everything, but more than what they would receive in a
bankruptcy, and Mrs. B did not want to have to
file for
bankruptcy after coming this far in her life.
Some consumers trying to rebuild credit
after filing bankruptcy think they're seeing the light at the end of the tunnel when «pre-approved» credit
offers start arriving, but accepting some of those
offers will do more harm than good.