subject: Popular Debt Relief Strategies - How to Resolve Your Credit Card Debt [print this page] While credit cards can be a source of comfort, they can also be the root cause of many problems. Many times a customer ends up paying more in fees and interest rates than the actual purchase. Most of the times, it is best to do away with your credit cards than deal with so much debt.
You must first start by checking what the exact problem with your credit card is. Are you being charged a very high interest rate or a late fees or large balance or variable interest rates? Once you have identified the problem you can counter them.
If your interest rates are high you can call up your credit card company and ask them to reduce the interest rates to a rate which is competent with other cards. If your company does not negotiate, you can transfer the balance and get the advantage of the low introductory offer. Before this make sure to check the company's standard rates. The standard rates should be less than what you are paying with your current creditor.
If you have been charged a late fee or a cash advance or an annual fee, it is possible to get this fee removed from your account. It is possible for the creditor's to waive off one or more of these fees from your account. Some of the creditors waive off this fee as a onetime courtesy.
If the balance amount is too high and due to some reason you are no longer in the position to pay off the entire loan, then you can go for debt settlement. You can negotiate with your creditors to settle your account. In standard cases a debtor can get a waiver of about 40 % to 60 % of the total debt amount.
Popular Debt Relief Strategies - How to Resolve Your Credit Card Debt
