It's not going to be made
any worse by filing a bankruptcy or consumer proposal.
Not exact matches
CNN Money estimates that a home foreclosure can decrease consumer credit scores
by 85 to 160 points, while
filing bankruptcy creates
worse results
by reducing credit scores
by 130 to 240 points.
Filing bankruptcy to discharge credit card debt at 29 % interest would not be considered «
bad»
by most people.
For many people, the perception of
filing for
bankruptcy involves negative feelings, made
worse by common misconceptions about how the
bankruptcy process works.
Some people feel like they are doing something wrong
by filing for
bankruptcy or that they are the
bad guy somehow.
Worse yet, if you time it so that you make your surge in credit card purchases right before you
file for
bankruptcy, it'll most definitely be dismissed
by the court, since it'll be obvious that you deliberately tried to add on more debt in an attempt to get it erased.
So, your credit is not going to get any
worse by filing a proposal or a
bankruptcy.
Many credit scores
by customers have suffered because of their
bad credit history, especially if they have once
filed a Chapter 7 or a Chapter 13
bankruptcy or have several unpaid debts still intact.
Peabody Energy, the world's largest private coal company, has
filed for
bankruptcy (although coal's problems are due mostly to fracking for natural gas, which
by some measures is as
bad as coal).
Filing business
bankruptcy may only put you in a
worse place
by preventing you from getting the credit your company needs to stay afloat.
The only reason
bankruptcy has such a
bad reputation is because it is discussed
by people who know very little about
filing bankruptcy.