Debt Consolidation

What is debt consolidation?

If you have a gotten to a point where your credit card is maxed out, you are behind on your home loan repayments, you have trade creditors, you owe money to friends and family and there is interest building up on these debt at a variety of different rates and you are getting calls from debt collectors you have probably lost track of your financial situation and your debt is starting to get out of control. Debt consolidation is a process which can assist you by simplifying your debts into one loan and usually getting a lower across the board interest rate on all of your loans.

How is this achieved?

There are a number of tools of debt consolidation. The most common one is a balance transfer card. This is a credit card which allows you to pay off your existing debts and obtain a lower interest rate on the money that you owe. Also if you use a series of balance transfers at progressively lower interest rates overtime you can significantly reduce the total amount of interest that you are repaying, this is especially true if we are currently experiencing a period of lowering interst rates because the new lenders that you are using will slowly be able to offer you lower interest rates on each balance transfer.

Another tool which may be used to achieve this is a line of credit on your home loan. Because for most people the home loan is the largest debt that they have and often the most inflexible having a debt consolidation loan linked to your home loan account is often the easiest way to consolidate your debts in one easy system of repayment. All of the major banks offer lines of credit on their standard home loans and obtaining approval for these types of accounts in normally quite straight forward.

Who can I talk to to get advice?

Often useful advice can be obtained from a financial counsellor, debt advisor or legal professional on the appropriateness of having a debt consolidation loan. They can help you examine your debts, income, assets and liabilities and see how to restructure your financial arrangements most efficiently to pay off your debts as fast as possible and ensure that you do not end up in a situation where you become unable to repay your debts as and when they fall due and payable (which is where you become insolvent) which is a much more serious position to be in. Also, in any situation of debt restructuring cash flow or income is king because this gives you the fundamental solvency to continue repaying your debts and allow creditors to lend to your with the security of knowing that the debts will eventually be paid off.

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