Well, me and my fiance have been living in our first home (a double wide trailer) for 3 years. We have kept up with the payments just fine until we had to get this last loan out to cover the air conditioning (last summer). My fiance brings home about 5-7 hundred dollars a week depending on the hours he gets in. We even worked a paper route for about 6 months to get caught up with everything and it seems impossible. We dug ourselves into a deeper hole than we were in before and now it is reallly impossible to get out of. We have tried EVERYTHING to get back on track. My fiance just heard this morning after having a friend cosign for a personal loan, that we were denied and the cosigner had PERFECT credit. My fiances credit has gotten terrible since we bought this house and he is so overwhelmed with bills and working 12 hours 5 days a week that it is driving him crazy. He tried many times to get a personal loan/home equity loan and everything before he had tried to get the cosigner and those times obviously he was turned down as well because of bad credit. I don’t like hearing DENIED once or twice a week and seeing my fiance get disappointed. The loan he is applying for would be used to pay off all of the bills we are currently making monthly payments on and knocking the monthly bills from almost 500$ to just over 150$. Paying that one loan payment will make things easier for now and he can pay that off as much as he can, but the minimum would be a lot easier to keep up with. He is saying that if he can not find a way to keep up with things better, we are going to lose the house. I am unsure of what we could do and i wanted to ask all of you if you have ever been in a similar situation and if so, what did you do to get out of it when everything seemed impossible. We were thinking bankruptcy, but we don’t know how it works. I am hearing that you still have to make payments on your bills unless it adds up to a certain amount. If the current credit accounts do not add up to be enough, would foreclosing our house and filing that on our bankruptcy help since it would be a higher total of debt? I don’t know how this works and he can’t just STOP paying people because i know they will all take him to court and garnish his paycheck. Please give me some advice. Thanks

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I have about 7,000 credit card debt i am in a credit counseling program. Ive had my car for a year and I am so upside down the loan was for 15,000 6 years at 20 % interest. My current income is only about 900 a month so i am considering filing bankruptcy and having my dad cosign for a new car and a house which wont be for a few years when im done with school. My whole family is pressuring me to go bankrupt but im tempted to just tough it out so i can maintain good credit? What should i do?

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