I filed in March 2007 and expect my actual discharge letter in the mail any day now-wait, is that the mailman? My bankruptcy already shows up on my credit report and my credit score isn’t so terrible! Specifically, I want to know if its o.k. to start applying for ONE SINGLE credit card and a car loan. That’s it. I’m rebuilding my credit on those two things. Period. Thanks.
And is it a good idea? I owe money to a credit card, a bank, tons of medical bills, and student loans (although if I remember correctly, student loans aren’t forgiven through bankruptcy). I probably have 30K-40K in debt altogether—most of which being the medical bills. I’m 22, would bankruptcy be a good option? And how would I do it? How much would it cost? How long would it take to fix my credit thereafter?
When I turned 18 I made the huge mistake of applying for every credit card anyone would ever give me. Now I am 22 and have a boat load of debt including judgements, collections, student loans, car loans, pay day loans, etc. Totalling 40,000.00 plus!!!! I want to know if bankruptcy would be good route for me as my credit is already poor. Can it make it any worse?
I can’t open bank account because I filed bankruptcy. The banks will not accept because of that. I have been looking for alternatives and while googling I found a thing known as "online account". They say that to open online checking account, i make opening deposit with credit card. Whatever I pay with credit card is my online bank balance. And that then they will mail me checkbook to my house. For depositing check, they said I should scan and email them the check I want to deposit. And that they will use those scans to process the deposit. They say they will also send visa check card through mail, and it can be used at any ATM. Is this scam or real? The online check account site says initial deposit must be 500 dollars using credit card or western union. Is this real or scam?
Also that I should scan and email copy of my social security and driver license for opening of account
I’m looking for information about how a person can file bankruptcy on a specific credit card, if I so choose. Any information would be greatly appreciated.
I work 40 hrs a week as support for a software company. I work remotely from home. I have been freelancing at night when everyone is asleep and on weekends – this is my second job, my attempt to pay off medical bills, and to move forward on quitting my current job I hate so much. Last week I told my husband I have a big job and I have a 2 week deadline. This job will pay for my son’s Hockey Season which is 0. I told him this several times before taking the job and he told me he was okay with it. One night I decided to work on the project right after dinner and as soon as I went upstairs he wanted to know what I was doing and demanded that I take his laptop and work downstairs. I was a bit put off and did it. Then he went to give my youngest son a bath and demanded that I stop what I was doing to watch my older son do his homework… First of all, my husband never gives my youngest son a bath on his own – I usually do it and rarely tends to my son’s homework. He started yelling at me saying that I need to spend more time with the family.. What??? I’m home all the time with the family.. He’s not!
Keep in mind that he works 50 – 60 hours weeks and sometimes more. When he does work more than usual, I never give him a hard time. I take care of everything at home.
This one time when I asked for his support on my big project – he failed me. I decided to quit this project because of my husband being impossible. I was so angry at him, I could not talk to him. The next day I woke up angry, he was telling me what to do and how to do it… He is usually like this and I just ignore it. I was so pissed, I was super sensitive to every word that was coming out of his mouth. I felt like I was in shackles and I have no rights as a human being. I know this is so exaggerated on my part.. That is my feeling after getting no support from him.
What brought me to the melt down is this. I have a paypal business account and credit card for my business needs. my husband knows this which is a big mistake telling him. That account allows me to send invoices to people so that they can pay me for services. I have been taking the profits and paying for things we need and paying for medical bills. I have gotten about 00 from freelance work so far. Well, my husband keeps on telling me we need to pay for hockey stuff and now My dog’s grooming and vet bills.. This is where I get frustrated.. I have to work to pay for this stuff. I don’t want to incur more debt. He also wants me to file for bankruptcy.. I don’t. That is the easy way out and I feel I can fix this.. He doesn’t agree with me and continues to friggin buy things like he has endless amounts of cash.
I really think he takes advantage of me. Everything we have bought, he had convinced me to put it on my credit card and promised he will pay it back. Every time I go to him on paying back my card, he comes up with excuses and yet he is able to buy shoes, clothes, gadgets, toys for kids, – lunches, etc… Do you see why I’m mad?
And just a couple of days ago I flipped on him because he told me he just bought some Vail Resort stock… I was pissed because when I was trading stocks a year ago and making a profit, he got involved and said this will be a good hobby for the both of us. I immediately disagreed and told him that I want to do this on my own. He has stocks and a retirement fund. I have nothing and would like to try and build a retirement fund and portfolio. He was offended and got mad at me. I gave in and decided to work with him. He told me to buy a stock that I did not agree with and insisted that if I do not buy this stock it would be a big mistake. Well I didn’t want to and we fought over it. I didn’t want to fight with him and bought the stupid stock. A week later it fell 10% and I pulled out. He wanted me to keep it and called it a long term stock… He was so wrong. The little money I did have went to paying for penrose hospital – they had a court order for us to pay for a bill. So I pulled all the money and gave it to them. See why I am mad… Why do I put up with this?
He is another funny thing he did. For a while he was recording Dave Ramsey show. This show has people calling in about their financial problems and he give advice. Well I did watch this show and loved it because if reinforce what I know is true and when I had asked him to watch it with me – he agreed but he thought it was comical and didn’t take the show seriously and stopped recording the show… I am crazy.
He pays for health insurance, car insurance, utility bills, and cable. I pay for mortgage, car, credit cards, daycare, and gas/groceries.
I don’t have anything left when these bills are paid.
Yes, I have talked to him about this and we are trying to work things out. I don’t give up that easily. Divorce is not in my radar. I feel so frustrated and wish I could figure this out. My husband tells me all the time that I need to learn how to relax.. He’s right there. And we balance each other because I am all about being responsible and he likes to have fun.. Well I love to have fun too. I was adventurous before kids and marraige. Now i’m home working all the time. Try to pay the bills.
I am so broke. I even tried to look under the seats of my car to find enough change to buy a kid I work with a 54 cent ice cream cone he earned by good behavior and grades for 4 weeks but I did not have enough. I lied and said I forgot my money at home. So I took him to park and I owe him a ice cream next week I work for a small mental health non profit and my husband has been out of work for two years. I was able to make ends meet except for one credit card,student loan and my car. My student loan took my tax refund for the past two years but I still owe them two thousand. I had the car voluntarily repossed because I could not afford it(big mistake because now the court says owe 10000 when the loan with interest was only 6000 and I paid on it for 2 of the 4 years), The credit card got a garnishment that takes 400 a month from my pay at 25% pre tax which is more than I take home in two weeks now, and now the bank(car loan) has sued me too and wants to garnish me too but I don’t make enough for them to take anymore. I am so tired of eating peanut butter sandwiches, soup, or beans that I get from the food bank. If I could find some way to file bankruptcy I would be ok, but I have no clue where to start. Any help would be great, even the info needed to file or ask for help. I just cant do this much longer.
I’m in trouble what can I say and the only thing left is to file bankruptcy. I do own a home and I’m current with the payments.I do not want to lose my home.What I make right now is just enough to support myself and my kids. Few years ago my then husband took a second mortgage on another property that we own at that time. After separation we have lost that home and we agree for me to remain in this home now and pay for it which I do. The problem is that things changed. I lost my job , divorce etc and we stop paying that loan. Its about 27.000 dollars. After stop paying the loan was handed to a collection agency. I agree to pay them 100 a month. But is getting harder in harder to go by. Mortgage , food, gas , 2 kids ,etc I can’t make it. I really don’t have any other debt except a 1800 dollars credit card that is still current. I have a part time job now and I don’t know how to make it.The ex husband don’t help. My question is can i file to bankruptcy on my own? I don’t have money to pay a attorney. My credit is ruined already.I need to get out of this without loosing my home. When I did my taxes I paid off some other bills that I had. I don’t want to do this just to get away from my debt, but I don’t see any other option. I make 900 a month.
Thanks
i forgot to say that I live in Illinois
I am now a stay home mom due to having two children with a rare disease and due to daycare costs. I would be working just to pay daycare, so my husband is the only income we have now. We have ALOT of medical bills that we were barely paying off before when we had 2 incomes. We also have some credit cards that need to be paid. We also pay on a repossession and we have a judgment for a credit card that we used to have. In plain words we have alot of debt and we don’t really have to means to even pay it off. i have 2 school loans that I have put off repaying. It really seems like bankruptcy is our only option and I have accepted this but I wanted to know if anyone has any other ideas?
I mean its not like America can file bankruptcy. When the Military shuts down for a lack of a paycheck. Law enforcement stops for the same Reason. The money in your hand is no long accepted like the credit card in your wallet. What happens then to the sick the old the children.
I want to file Chapter 7 to totally get rid of my debt. The only problem is my spouse doesn’t agree with this, so I would have to file by myself. I have 5 credit cards in my maiden name and 1 credit card in my married name. My medical bills are in my married name. As far as my assets, my name is on the house but not on the mortgage. My name is also on the two cars that we own.
Can I file Chapter 7 bankruptcy without the cars and the house being affected? If I can’t file by myself then what else can I do?
i know most people say use a credit card but my mom cant get one cause she filed for bankruptcy before so how else can you do it?
ive heard debit cards work? how would that work?
anything else?
[and im 15 so i cant really do anything of that sort on my own.]
We owned a house, two cars and 1 credit card together. We leased to own our house and relocated to another part of the county. I had yet to find a job when our tenants bailed on their contract and ex-hubby cheated on me.
I moved in with a male friend and it took awhile find a job. I could not afford to pay for our mortgage, cars and credit card in time. He refused to sell or rent out the house, but would not pay on it either. I did not have the money to bring him to court before the house got forclosed on. So we lost the house, the cars have been repossed and the credit card charged off.
I am now looking to try to repair my life and possiblly buy a home in the future, but I don’t know where to begin? Should I file BK? I can’t afford to pay back the money.
I am 20 years old I live in a house with my boyfriend it is in his name but I paid for this house also, I was just wondering if anyone had ways to get a credit card? I went to my bank and asked and they want me to put my own money on a card for like almost 2 years and keep paying it back. I do not have that much money to pay on the card and then pay back constantly. I work in fast food but I do keep my bills paid, was just wondering if theres any good cards out there to apply for like a 300$ credit limit I want to start building my credit. Also My dad filed bankruptcy a year ago and he is starting to re build his credit can he cosign for me still? its so difficult doing it by yourself because my mother has bad credit so I cant have her cosign anything so I’m kind of stuck. And yes I’ve applied and kohls, fingerhut all these small places and got denied. Please any advice would be great! It would help out alot! I dont want a credit card to be immature, I want it for emergencies such as my car breaking down or for gas or bills.
I have had two financial advisers tell me to declare bankruptcy when I graduate from college, or sooner to eliminate my credit card and school loan debt, and one telling me that I should probably get more financial aid (all from different firms)…. The interest rates on private loans for schools are ridiculous (I am going through Sallie Mae), and I am already freaking out about how much I am going to have to pay back…
I don’t really have any family, and I am currently in my Junior year in college. I have been working full time, and paying my school on my credit cards, apartment etc etc.. (I have 3 with a total of 00 credit line, and they are usually maxed out when new semesters start). I get a little bit of money from the federal government (FAFSA) for school, but it obviously is not enough… I also have a bit of private loans from my grand mother who is co-signing for them.
So should I declare? When if I should?
I am not trying to skeeze my way out of it, and I am fine with paying it all back with the career I get when I graduate, but I am really scared about the whole thing (private loans), and I would like to know if there is an ALTERNATIVE route without having to sell my first born child. The gov. and my full time job do not provide enough income for school and such, and I can only work so much taking an average of 18 credit hours a semester.
If I declare bankruptcy, will it affect my grandmother since she is co-signing?
Please help me out. I am open to all constructive help and legitimate ideas that don’t involve anything illegal.
I am employed by one of the companies that has been envolved with the back dating of stock options and I was in a 12 month blackout and lost 500K and could not sell to pay my taxes from a sell I did two weeks before the black out and extended black out due to the SEC investigation and during that time the stock just dropped from to . Now I have no stock that isn’t underwater and I don’t know what to do. I owe about 66k . I racked up credit card dept to help me out during this time. I have been reading all the books from NOLO.com and Larry Winglet. I’m tired of being tired and I feel like I have failed. This situation has been very emotional for me I have worked here for 10 years and was ready to pay all of my dept off and instead i’m buried. I’m 53 and I feel like just walking away, but thats not my style. I have never been late on any of my bills CC/auto etc… Thanks for listening and wish me luck!
I am going to file chapter 7 bankruptcy and I have a joint credit card between myself and my son. What I would like to do is keep the credit card so I still have something for emergencies after I file bankruptcy. Do I have to list the joint account when filing bankruptcy? Because I would like to keep it open and keep making the payments as usual, and if I did list it could that effect my sons credit, even if he makes the payments, since he is joint on the account,?
Am about 39000.00 in debt 3 credit card and a personal loan and it kill me struggling to make ends meat when can I stop paying if i file bankruptcy next week can I stop paying right away
i owe 33,342 can i go bankrupt?
if i go bankrupt i cant use my credit card for 5 years but do i get money??
hello, I just filed for bankruptcy oct 25th, i haven’t received my discharge yet , but will be very soon. I was wondering, how long will it take before my credit gets good enough to maybe get a good interest rate on a house or a car. I am in nursing school right now, and will be graduated nov 3, 2008. I hopefully want to have my credit to a point where i can get a good rate on a house. What steps can I take to improve my credit? I did just recently get a credit card w. a 350 $ limit, and plan on paying monthly to improve my score. I was rather suprised I even got a card w.out the discharge. I also just opened a checking accounts, and again was suprised to see i was accepted w. no problem, w. a big bank like bank of america no less. But what else can i do to achieve better credit and how long does it take? has anyone had similar situations. I am kinda scared to put alot of money in my bank account, because I am afraid a shady creditor will take my money out and garnish it. please help