Member since: June 2008
Total Contributions: 241
About Me: Debt free, except home mortgage.
Solid financial plan (do's and dont's):
Things you should do:
- Budget, budget (know what comes in and where it goes)
- stay out of debt (except mortgage)
- have a 6 month almost cash emergency fund
- put 15% into retirement accounts
- have a 15 year fixed rate mortgage with a payment of no more than 25% of your take home pay.
- have no more than two credit cards
- use them for online purchases (such as airlines tickets, amazon, etc)
- pay the cards off every month, well before the due date
- have term life insurance in place while you have small dependents and while you are building your financial future
- get LTC when you turn 60 or so
- when you are getting significant savings in your account, meet with a fee-only financial planner.
Things you should not do:
- co-sign
- collect credit cards as a sign of how well you are doing financially
- loan money to family or friends (make it a gift, w/o strings attached)
- sign up for Debt Consolidation
- buy from Cash Value Life insurance of any type
- get a car loan (it goes down in value)
- use your bank as your financial advisor
- use an insurance agent as your financial advisor
- impulse buy
Checking credit score does not change your score.
Response posted 8 months ago
Why Why Why would you want a car loan? Stop monkeying with the credit scores.
Save up and pay cash. Never finance a depreciating asset.
Response posted 8 months ago
Pay or settle this debt.
Response posted 8 months ago
Yes, use the credit score report card.
Response posted 8 months ago
Yes, of course. Why would you want to pay interest to the bank every month?
Response posted 8 months ago
How do you know it was unauthorized?
Response posted 8 months ago
Rental properties are a high risk for the banks. Do not expect low rates and good terms.
Sell one and pay off the loans on the other. Go to a cash based business (no debt !)
Response posted 9 months ago
maybe.
Response posted 9 months ago
Instantly, if you have entered the correct information to identify yourself.
Response posted 9 months ago
Loans are not going to fix your problems. It just moves it around. you need a plan to get out of debt fast.
(budget, cut lifestyle, stell stuff, extra jobs)
Response posted 9 months ago
Well, they can sue. You must respond and use the SOL defense in court.
(to attach bank account, they must win in court and get a judgment against you. They can not garnish social security checks directly. Mingled funds in a checking account is a different story)
Response posted 9 months ago
Pay it off. Get serious. Cut lifestyle, tight budget, extra jobs, sell stuff, stop charging to the cards.
You are the solution. Not some company that will take your money and do nothing for you.
Response posted 10 months ago
Why do you want more? There is no need to have more.
Response posted 10 months ago
Why do you want more credit cards?
Having many credit cards is not a measure of success, it is a measure of praying at the FICO altar.
You should stop this silly game and start thinking income, assets, career and success. Who cares about the credit score? I don't.
Response posted 10 months ago
Why come out of the lime light? Why do you want debt ?
Response posted 10 months ago
I would stop playing with Cap One and stop playing the credit score game.
Response posted 10 months ago
Credit scoring is a crystal ball.
Who cares !
Response posted 10 months ago
In most cases a rip-off for the consumer.
(You are reducing the equity in your home at a high cost.)
Response posted 10 months ago
Vantage score is just another way to confuse consumers.
Response posted 10 months ago
First you must report it to the police, and get a police report.
Then you have to contact the creditor and let them know about the fraud and they have to remove your name.
Response posted 10 months ago
Pay. (No bill does not mean you do not owe it !) You woke up the sleeping giant by disputing it. (If you dispute, the credit agency will contact the creditor to verify)
Response posted 10 months ago
Save up a 20% downpayment, pay on time on all your bills and apply for a regular underwriting mortgage (and not the FICO monkey lending)
Response posted 11 months ago
No, it will go down. You will get another hard credit inquiry.
(Pay it off and get out of the land of payments)
Response posted 11 months ago
Yes, but for what purpose?
You knew you bought stuff, you knew there was going to be a bill. You did not update your contact information.
What did the CC company do wrong?
You are playing with snakes and got bitten.
Pay cash or with debit, then you do not have to worry about this anymore.
Response posted 11 months ago
Credit card? More debt?
How about a cash life for awhile?
Your credit is ruined for several years. (Why would anyone loan you money, if you are not going to pay it back?)
Response posted 11 months ago
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Time to pay !
Response posted 1 year ago