Thursday, December 17, 2009

Ways to avoid Bankruptcy

There can be various ways to avoid filling a bankruptcy even when you find yourself in knee deep debt situation just by following some simple steps:

Debt Settlement: This is a situation suitable for debtors who don’t wish to continue with the burden of monthly payments and like to pay off all the dues with a small negotiation. A debt settlement program sometime referred as debt reduction can help an individual to cut down the debt amount by 40-60% of the original amount. A professional or collection agencies can help to negotiate your debt with the creditors, banks etc, or a consumer can do it by himself.

Debt consolidation program: A suitable debt consolidation program can be chosen in order to avoid bankruptcy and lead a debt free life. In this program all the monthly bills or credit card bills are consolidated to a single bill which will reduce the burden of extra finance charges, interest, late fee and other financial charges. Debt consolidation also has a positive impact on your credit score which really make sense to choose for consolidation.

Debt Management: It is a program where a credit counseling agency offers free service on managing debt by keeping you update on your bills so that all the bills or dues are cleared by time and dues are not accumulated. This also provides services like minimizing or waiving interests or fine levied due to late payment or on payment of the dues on time.

Pay Day loan consolidation: Pay day loan consolidation is also a program to choose for avoiding debt situation. In this case also multiple pay day loans can be consolidated into an affordable monthly payment.

DIY Plan: The last but the most effective way to avoid a bankruptcy situation is to go for a DIY Plan (Do it yourself plan). This seems to be tough whereas it is easy to go for a DIY plan for debt settlement without taking the help of professional. In this program you have to first communicate and negotiate with your creditors and then work upon a budget to meet your regular expenditure.

The above ways are definitely a ways to avoid an unwilling situation called bankruptcy but it can only happen if you first belief that you are in debt and wish to pay off all dues that would lead to have a debt free life.

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