Wednesday, January 21, 2009

You Can Be Debt Free

By Brenda Lengel

It is the dream of many Americans who have mounting credit card bills to become debt free. Owing large amounts of money brings stress into our lives and we want to reduce the financial stress in our life and become debt free. It is easy to spend too much money on our credit cards and many times it is difficult to pay more than the minimum payments for each credit card that we have. This debt burden makes us want to become free of our credit card debt.

If you want to become debt free, you will have to adopt a disciplined financial plan. As a part of the plan, you must cut out all overspending and stop using your credit cards. Once you cut back on your spending, you will have more money for paying your credit card bills and gradually you can reduce your debt burden.

Another way to become debt free is to seek professional help from debt reduction and debt consolidation companies. These companies offer to help you become debt free by offering debt consolidation and debt settlement services. The goal of any debt consolidation service is for you to become debt free.

There are several different programs that the debt consolidation company may suggest for you. In debt consolidation, they will contact all of your credit card and unsecured loan companies and let them know that you are trying to become debt free. They will work to get your interest rates lowered and your over the limit and late payment fees reduced or eliminated. The debt consolidation company will start making payments for you to your creditors after they receive each monthly payment from you. In this way, you only have to make one payment each month instead of paying several creditors. They will manage your consolidated accounts relieving you of some stress.

If your debt burden is too large, you can take a debt consolidation loan to become debt free. A debt consolidation loan will help you consolidate all of your loans and credit card dues into one single loan at a lower rate of interest and for an extended payment term. This way you will have to pay just one monthly repayment rather than paying several expensive repayments.

Another method of debt consolidation is debt settlement. With debt settlement, your debt counselor works with your creditors to obtain a settlement amount for each one of your accounts. The settlement amount is lower than your current balance and this will save you money. You will make monthly payments to the debt consolidation company and they will pay each one of your creditors until each account is paid in full. Debt consolidation counselors know how to negotiate with your creditors so it is good to let them contact your credit card companies.

You will be debt free once you have made the required payments for any of these debt consolidation methods provided that you have not continued spending excessively and run up any new debts. The stress of the high balances on your credit cards will have been eliminated. You will be free to save money now for future purchases and you will have learned to follow a monthly budget. You can become debt free with the right guidance and the right debt consolidation program.

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