Sunday, June 19, 2011

Why Your Credit Shouldn't Suck

By Trent Johnson


Having bad credit is very detrimental to your everyday life, and won't go away overnight just because you want it to. It's not something you can get rid of very easily, even if you really want it to fix itself. Having bad credit can affect you in plenty of ways, including taking loans or applying for credit cards.

For instance, getting a loan from a standard bank will become difficult. Also, you most likely won't be approved for credit cards since you can't be trusted to make your monthly payments. As your credit score drops, so does your reliability, and as your reliability drops, the amount of people willing to help you do as well. This includes, but isn't limited to, banks, loaners, and creditors. If you're looking for loans in order to buy a house, a car, or even something like a laptop, you can be sure that it's going to be hard to find one. However, if you do get your hands on a loan, you can expect it to have extremely high interests rates - rates so high that if you end up missing a monthly payment, you'll be paying more than you would have ever dreamed of paying for whatever you were buying. With such high rates on all of your credit cards and loans, it becomes very easy to accidentally miss a payment, which will lead to more and more missed payments. Soon you'll find yourself having an outstanding balance, which will decrease your credit score by even more. Also, even if you get your hands on a credit card, you probably won't be able to receive the same benefits that people with a higher credit score receive such as cash back or airline miles.

Another reason you wouldn't want low credit is because if you have low credit, you won't be able to use the benefits of having a credit card to its fullest. For instance, you won't be able to have the rewards that they only offer to people with higher credit scores, such as cash back or travel miles.

It will also be difficult for you to find a place to live if you have bad credit. Forget buying your own house, even apartment landlords may not even accept you if your credit score is too low. They will almost always run your name through a credit report to see whether or not you're trustworthy, and with a low credit score, they can safely assume that you aren't. And even after you find a place to live, if you have bad credit, you can expect the utility companies to require you to pay a security deposit before you can use their services. This includes electricity and phone companies. Your credit score reflects your reliability to the rest of the world, so in order to prove yourself reliable; you need to manage your credit score properly so that it doesn't slip up.

There are no advantages to decreasing your credit score, so you should just fix it as soon as it starts to slip; it will make your life much easier if you do. If you don't manage your credit score, you'll just be digging your own grave. Things will just get worse and worse unless you take action as soon as you see yourself slipping up.




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