subject: Now Is The Time To Begin A Debt Relief Program [print this page] In the current economy not only is having debt stressful, it can also be downright scary. You exhaust a great deal of time trying to figure out how to juggle your money so that you have enough to make it cover all of your financial obligations. Sometimes there isn't enough magic in the world to make it work. And each day the interest accrues on your unpaid debts.
What the stress does to you physically and emotionally is one thing, but what scares me more than anything is what the financial institutions have started doing the past year. It used to be they threw credit at everyone. If you could sign your name, you qualified for a credit card. Now you can do all the right things and it does not make you exempt from an interest rate increase, a credit limit reduction or your account being closed all together.
So, if you were relying on that $3,000 in available credit as your money in case of an emergency and your credit limit was lowered by $2,700, you don't have much security at all. It is to the point where the only thing you can trust is yourself. And if you have debt and not enough money to cover unexpected expenses, you have some work to do. It will not be easy, but it can be done.
If you have no emergency fund, you are going to have work on the fund and the debt relief simultaneously. As long as you can make minimum payments, you can begin saving for your unexpected expenses. When you have a $1,000 in your rainy day fund, then you can begin slamming your debt. You can either use a plan that is organized following one of the well known financial experts. If you feel you need more structure than that, consult a nonprofit credit counseling company and they will get you setup on a debt management plan.
If you want this to be over with more quickly, you will have to be aggressive about finding ways to cut back on your expenses and increasing your income. This is a good warm up for the wealth building that should follow when you have paid off all of your debt. Delaying getting started on getting out of debt is only going to push you farther into the hole. Get a free quote for getting out of debt today!
