Posts Tagged Student Loan
how do i re establish bad credit?
i have previous closed accounts, charged off, taken to collections, delinquent, and finally paid. there are about 5 credits all the same, will not be taken off until 5 years. they were minimum amounts between 200-500 each. i have a student loan i pay on time each month. i get denied for credit when i apply for my bank (wells fargo) personal loans and credit cards. i do not want to be in more debt since i finally got all of those delinquent accounts paid off now. how do i re establish credit, all i get is denied, and i need money for a loan someday soon. is a secured credit card through the bank the way to go? is there any other ways to re establish my credit or help my credit report/score? if a secured card is the way to go, explain to me how it works, i understand you put down a minimum deposit. what i dont understand is you make monthly payments, but if its YOUR deposit, why would you OWE anything?
Kim
How does co-signing 4 a loan affect my credit?
A few years ago I co-signed for one of my sister’s medical school loans, as I was the only one left in the family with good credit! It’s in good standing, everything’s cool, but there is this nearly 30K Sallie Mae loan on my credit reports, indicated as “joint responsibility”. That alone equals half my yearly income. Does this co-signed student loan have the same impact as if I alone simply had a 30K personal debt on my report? Anyone know how much that might detract from my credit score? It’ll be there for 15 years!
BTW I know that I’m responsible for the debt if my sister doesn’t pay it, but she’s utterly reliable and I couldn’t exactly let my sister be forced out of her final semester of med school for lack of funds could I? She is now finishing her residency and is a few months away from commanding a hefty 6-figure income.
Gail
I need some advice with credit card?
Posted by admin in Personal Finance on February 19, 2010
I need advice on which cards to keep and which to close In total I have 7 Credit Cards I know for sure I want to close two of them out but would also like to know if I should do anything to the others
I have the following Cards,
Bank of America Platinum Plus, using $70 of 2,300, opened 06/07
Sears (Blue), using $350 of $1,100, opened 12/07
HSBC, 0 of $300, opened 03/08
Capital One, $100 of $750, opened 03/08
Sears MasterCard, 0 of $1,000, opened 07/08
Target, 0 of $200, opened 09/08
Sam’s Club Personal Credit, $70 of $500, opened 11/08
I also have a student loan out that deferred for $7,000
I plan to close out HSBC ( they wanted to charge $10 for a credit line increase of $100 they also have an annual fee and I think the most they will do is cut it in half) and Target because of their low credit limit and I really don’t shop at Target, just used it to get a 10% discount on some present for my mom. I don’t want to close out sears (blue) because I bought a TV on it and its interest deferred until august (I should have it paid of by april). Capital one is interest free for a year which is about to end, think I could get them to give me a good credit rate?
Do you have any suggestions for me I don’t want to open any more credit cards any time soon.
My credit score is a bit out of whack, credit companies Always report to the credit agencies when I have a high balance with them, which I think is unfair, hopefully I get lucky this upcomming report. Suggestions with that as well would be appreciated. Thank You very much for your suggestion.
P.S. I use Bank of America Privacy Assist to check my credit report it updates every 3 months. I still have money over from my student loan (I was going to use for a down payment on a car) should I use that money to pay off all the debt or should I continue doing it the way I am now, I made a budget off all my credit cards and I should have every thing paid off by february, except the sears card.
NELSON
Good/Bad Credit and Discover Card?
I work at Sam’s Club and I applied for the Sam’s Discover Card today. I didn’t get approved, but I did get approved for the Sam’s personal credit (up to 300 dollars). I’m only 20 so I don’t have a lot of credit experience under my belt, but I was wondering why I got downgraded.
I have bounced my debit card a couple of times, and I got a letter from the bank about it. The letter said that if I did not pay soon, they would turn it in to the credit beaureau. I paid it back so I’m assuming that they didn’t have to turn it in.
I have a student loan that I took out in August from the US beaureau of education for 1700 dollars. I haven’t started paying it back yet, but the only credit report I am able to view online says that it is in good standing, and that I have 0 potentially bad accounts.
Why did I get denied? What is it that Discover is looking for? How do I know if I have good or bad credit?
DONNELL