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When you need help.

Help is available when you need it. Some of the best ways to take charge of your life and to repair your credit are:

  • Self help
  • Credit repair and debt consolidation companies
  • Law firms who repair credit and who provide legal advice and services such as bankruptcy.



If you are a disciplined person and you can follow instructions, then self help may be for you. (Perhaps your current financial crisis is no fault of your own-- an illness, a family emergency or an accident, for example.) An excellent way to structure a plan is with a self help book. See "The Credit Repair Kit," lower left hand column.

But if you believe that your credit problems are really a result of your own inattention or perhaps from your overextending on credit (right now it's time to be brutally honest with yourself) then you probably need a professional to set up a structured plan for you.

Using a professional has excellent advantages:

  • Peace of Mind. Knowing that you have a professional-- even your own attorney-- working for you can be the load off your shoulders that you've been seeking
  • Professionals are skilled at negotiating with creditors to lower the interest rates on your bills
  • Creditors are more likely to accept a debt restructure program from an established professional than from an individual debtor who's already missing payments
  • You can consolidate all your bills into one periodic payment that goes to the counseling service -- then they pay each of your creditors from that amount
  • Your creditors and all those rude bill collectors will stop hounding you as the counselors screen them for you (as long as you keep your payment agreement)
  • Professionals can help you find discipline and self control and help you to change your spending habits
  • A law firm can counsel you on other alternatives such as bankruptcy (but make choosing bankruptcy a last resort!).




For more help in making your decision read these articles from the United States Federal Trade Commission about credit repair.

Credit Repair: Self Help May be Best


Advertisements Promising Debt Relief May be Offering Bankruptcy










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