Sunday, 17 August 2008

Your debt can be erased totally

By NDIMELE IKECHUKWU PHELIM


Most companies who are into money lending are always preparing one way of recovering their money from you. They will leave you to enjoy the grace of 12 months before you are charged interest rate. Also they will be glad to help you decide on how to pay your bills before hand.

Debt is not forever .It is just a temporary condition that will come and end provided you do what you are expected to do .You don't need to panic whenever you get yourself in this mess. Just schedule a meeting with your creditor and make them agree on the terms that you will pay your debt because you need to avoid any type of embarrassment.

If on the other hand these companies already started pursuing you and sending you threatening letters and especially if they started making phone calls demanding money, do not let them bully you into forcing you to promise them that you are going to give them the money you owe them. The first step in the negotiations begins with answering back to these letters and telephone calls with another letter to their chief credit controller explaining your position but most important of all do not make any type of promises especially if you know that you cannot keep them.

When you are writing or talking to your creditors always include your full details and any account numbers that may help them track you, remember some debt collection agencies may have thousands of accounts. If a creditor has already sometime wrote to you always remember to include the same reference code that he suggested in his letter.

You should always give reasons why you are not making any payments, you can refer to your budget, income or any other expenses you may have and let the creditor know why you cannot pay the amounts being requested you can also ask the creditors to freeze your interest or at least charge a very low interest rate.

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