Details – Got misguided by a con-artist mortgage broker. I was paying my mortgage on time and then refinanced because he told me I’d get a lower interest rate. The bank "forgot" to put an escrow account in my loan, unbenownst to me until nearly a year later. It jacked my payment up by 0/mo.

Anyway, tried restructuring with the bank and put my house on the market. I found two buyers but the bank has been unwilling to come down on their price, even though the house’s value has depreciated significantly.

I had a 722 score but now my credit is completely shot all because I made a dumb choice by refinancing and got taken. So… I really didn’t want to go through bankruptcy but only as a last resort. However, the house is still in limbo with the potential buyer (short sale) #2 if the bank agrees to an offer. Should I file bankruptcy now or when it gets closer to a court date? I get about 50 calls a day from bill collectors. I just leave my phone on silent and keep on working.

I know there’s never a BEST time, so when is the RIGHT time if someone is contemplating bankruptcy? And what will happen to me?

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please don’t scold me for having so much debt or being financially responsible. Whats done is done. Only the present and future advise i need now.

I can’t find job. It is very hard. Even though i have bachelor degree in math, i can only get .50 an hour which is nothing to fight the ,000 unsecured debt.

I defaulted on my payments since february 2009. The .50 hour an job — almost all of it goes on cell phone bill, broadband bill, car gasoline, dog food and dog vetreneary expenses (i have 2 large dogs).

I get 100’s of phone calls by harassing creditors. I no longer pick up the phone. I can never raise 00 for bankruptcy lawyer in such poor financial situation. My interest rate has hiked to 36% APR and i keep getting slapped with more and more fees of interest and penalties. I QUIT!

What will the creditors do to me now? there is not 1 single asset i own, except for my 2 beloved dogs.
Will creditors send me to jail? how will this situation end?

Please advise. I see no end to this at all as long as job market is stagnated.
.50 an hour job is as good as being unemployed. right?

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Ok,I’m 25 and I just got a 04 Pontiac Grand Prix with 112,109 miles on it,for ,000 but got slammed with a 21% interest rate. I tried before hand to get a lender/bank/credit union going in but No one would fiance me because I have 540 credit score. I had to take the deal because the truck I had was a gas hog and was falling apart and I need a way to get to work, so I sold that to get the down payment for the Pontiac.Here the issue,I have had it for 3 months and I have no problem paying the car note(1-a month) but when the economy shot 2 year ago and my job gave pick slips to me and hundred of people,unfortunately I had lost my home and voluntary returned a 02 Monte Carlo to the bank.As you may know now I have a for-closer and an repossession on my credit which is the reason for the low score. I currently have had a job now for the past two years so I making it even tho it get ruff at times with other things like college and apartment bills. I cant find any lender on the net to refinance a car with that many miles and it doest help that my credit score is so low. I was told that since I’m still young I should file bankruptcy to clear my dept and start over now. The only issue I have is I want to keep the car I just got but is there a way in the bankruptcy that I can keep the car and get the lender/bank to lower the interest rate so I can keep it?Or do I have to give it back or keep it out of the filing altogether? I’m a perfect example of bad thing happening to good people because I held a job all life and payed bills on time but you know what the say "sh** happens" Please provide me with some good meaningful advice .on what the best possible decision Thanks!!!

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3 years ago my mom co signed for me when i bought a car. i have a less than 2 years left to pay on it and i am happy with my payments and interest rate. i have paid for my car on my own and havent ever been late with a payment. i know nothing about refiniancing or anything and im not sure what i should do. i just know that i need to get her name off my lease so that it doesnt show up on my credit when my parents go to file banckruptcy. please help!

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I owe a LOT on my credit card bill (my minimum payment is 5/month) and my interest rate is 12%. Please understand that this has taken almost 2 decades to get to this point and it was unintentional. Anyways, I have good credit with a score of 771. I don’t want to ruin that by filing bankruptcy. I am wondering if there is an alternative where I can cancel the card, pay say /mo and not have interest accrue. I will pay til I die if I have to but I cannot afford this anymore. I know you can do something similar with medical bills, so I thought maybe there is something out there for credit card bills. If it helps, I am disabled and receive SSDI, so maybe there is a government program, I don’t know. Thank you for any/all suggestions.
Just some additional thoughts, what would trash my credit worse? Filing bankruptcy or debt settlement of some type as one person mentioned? Also wondering, if I just ceased paying or only paid the very minimum I could, and lets say they end up putting me in collections, etc., and let’s say they sue me for it, could they put a garnish on my monthly SSDI check? I don’t have any assets they could take (savings, house, etc).

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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

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I was laid off in August of 2009. I still have not secured employment. I had stellar credit until October of 2009 when all my savings were depleted to keep up with my bills. I have over 5,000 in credit card debt as the late fees etc. have been adding up monthly. My credit score was at 720 before October of 09. I’m guessing it is now in the 400’s. No payments have been made on any of my credit cards since October 09. Should I file bankruptcy or just keep postponing any payments until I secure employment? I feel that my credit is ruined for life anyways, so why bother stressing out and paying it off. I’m confused as to what to do. Thanks.
Also, I took the time to write and mail letters to each of my credit cards companies three months "prior" to even knowing I would be laid off. I had requested that they drop the interest rate to 0% so that I could get them all paid off. They ALL declined. It wasn’t until 90 days after each of my payments were due that they contacted me and at THAT POINT wanted to work something out. I was enraged to say the least. I thought…"Now that you’ve destroyed my credit, you want to work something out". Again, I was livid. Had they just done that when I asked, I probably wouldn’t have gotten into more of a mess. I feel now that had they settled for 0 percent interest, they would at least be getting most of their money back, now it looks like they won’t be getting any. Part of me feels bad, but part doesn’t. Also, do I pay taxes here in CA on the released debt through bankruptcy? Because I don’t even have money to do that. Yikes.
One of the responses said I should have filed bankruptcy a year ago, but a friend advised me not to due to my ongoing health problems. Had I filed and needed hospitalization, etc. I would not have been able to add that debt for another 10 years. I have no medical nor dental insurance because it’s so expensive. As far as living beyond my means, a huge portion of my debt is medical and dental charges. Please don’t assume people are careless who get to this point. I had to charge alot just to survive.

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I have a delima and this seems like the right place to ask this question.

I have a home in Las Vegas which I am trying to short sale, which I believe will ultimately end up as a Foreclosurer. I lost my job 10 months ago when my industry took a crash due to the economy and have been burning through my savings to support my family.

Now that I am working again my payments are the same but my pay check is 1/2 of what I use to make, so its a struggle. I have almost depleted my savings and come to a fork in the road. I have about 25K in credit debt and my credit card company just raise my interest rate so high I can’t possibly afford the new monthly payment. I have tried to get them to help and they said thats the way it is and when I check the internet, this is happening to millions of people.

So here is my question.

Since I will have a foreclosurer on my record, is it worth trying to work to pay off the credit card company or just file for BK and start over.

I have always have perfect credit (790) and this is really bothersome to me. I buy cars every 2 years and always got the best rates, so I want to try and save my credit, but with a foreclosurer on there, will it really matter if I pay off the credit card or not?

My credit is already shot and need to get on the road to rebuild it and I can probably get ,000 to pay off the card, but that will be my entire savings and would leave me in a more volerable state.

Sorry to ramble on and advice would be appreciated!

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in filing chapter 13 bankruptcy, are mortage lenders more or less likely to work with you to get a home modification. My home has dropped 90,000 in value and it’s really not worth paying on a 170,000 loan when other houses in my neighborhood are being sold for 80,000 and getting a lower interest rate.

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When I first started to get some credit my uncle cosigned a credit card for me, this was about 4 years ago, I’ve since established some credit, now my uncle needs to file for bankruptcy. Will this hurt me also, what should I do? Should I cancel this credit card? I have now a few credit cards in my name only, and I kept the one he co signed because it has the best interest rate. What should I do? Thanks!

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My wife and I are planning on moving to Texas and when we do we want to buy a home as opposed to renting.
My wife has a 630 credit rating and I have a 625 credit rating. However, I had a bankruptcy discharge in my name only one year ago.

Will we qualify and what should we expect a monthly payment to be on a 0,000 home. Can we get zero down? What kind of interest rate should we expect?

Any help would be appreciated.
David

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Well, it is ashamed to ask this question but it is true that I’ve been living in this condition for couple years now and it made me so depress because of my personal financial problem. But I am still hoping and trying to find everything I could to recover my credit. I hope I will get some advise from you guys out there to help me start rebuild my financial life again.

Since last 5 years ago the first time I moved to this country I started apply my first credit card with US Bank, I’ve been living so happy with it, I thought it was cool when using credit card, I spent money like a rich kid, and I got a really good credit, then I applied for any other cards from one bank to other banks till I ended up with 5 different credit cards. Then 3 years gone by I couldn’t handle these credit cards, I ran out of control and ended up with a balance of 22K at the age 27 years old now, so still there is a long way to go, if I am keep paying the minimum payment like this I will end up paying those creditors for my whole life. I did try credit card consolidation but it just reduced my interest rate Now at this time I decided to go with debt settlement company in order to get rip of this debt and start a new life, but of cause it gonna take me couple years to settle this 22K debt. Now I m paying the settlement company 0/month for 28 months to settle my debt.

So first of all please ignore my grammars I know you understand what I am talking about, but I am seeking for advise from you guys out there:

1. I can possibly maintain my monthly payment of 0 to 0 toward my debt, so is there any alternative way beside debt settlement and bankruptcy to get rip of this debt? now my credit score gone so bad and there is one collection on my credit already, and soon there will be more as I am enrolling in this debt settlement.

2. I start looking at peer to peer loan and sound like an other option for me as long as I have a co-borrow with a good credit, but I am kind of hesitated and not sure how legitimated it is. Can anyone advise me if I should go with it?

I am making 90K from my job but I am still living in this horrible life because of my debt. This is a really bad experience that I am currently having in my life and I hope everyone who read this post will learn from what my mistake was, and won’t go on the same path as me.
Yes I will looking into my daily living expense and hope I will cut some of them. Originally, it was 35K on my balance but then I tried to sell most of my asset (Stock, I don’t have a house) and brought it down to 22K. So at this moment of 22K debt I have nothing beside my monthly salary. I am so upset when I see most of my friends now they bought houses even they make less money than me, I was really poor in my money management.

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I filed bankruptcy with mostly credit card debt, did not include a car or a home. Am I out of luck when it comes to the interest rate? I don’t want a really high rate.

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I just out of the blue received two letters for two of my chase bank accounts, saying that they elected to close my accounts because of: 1 incident of a returned payment on the accounts, too many accounts opened recently, and too many inquiries.

Anyways, these accounts used to be wamu credit cards, which recently switched over to Chase, and not even a month or two into Chase..chase decides to just close my accounts just like that.

Now…what the HECK did I do wrong, so majorly wrong that they decided to do that? why would credit companies do that?

they already jacked my interest rate up to 29.99% and if that wasn’t enough..now they decided to close both accounts.

First of all, will this look bad on my credit score, and how long will this affect my credit score, second of all, WHY are they such …Aholes and out of the blue did this,…even though my payments and history have been on time and great,

and third, can accounts ever be reopened, or once they’re closed, that’s that?

I’m just shocked. Is this because of the economy and the credit card industry suffering, or is this because of something else?

I just am scared..I knew that credit cards were slashing credit lines, jacking interest rates and adding other unfavorable things, but now…I didn’t expect this out of nowhere. I’m terribly disapointed, and I guess there goes two years worth of positive history….just because of one returned payment (which was my banks fault for putting my money on hold), and because they claim i have too many new credit cards and inquiries, because I’m trying to re-establish my credit after going bankrupt in 2005.

Oh well. chase is horrible.

I heard that a new law is being passed to keep them from doing that, to make it harder at least, but at the same time it will be harder to obtain credit.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

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I would like to hear from people who have actually filed. What happened? What is the process? Are you happy with your decision? Stress relieved?
I am so in debt and credit card companies keep raising the interest rate. I cannot get ahead. I don’t see another alternative.
Please – only people who’ve actually filed. Thank you!
Any information is appreciated.

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I bought a 2008 car last year with an 18 percent interest rate.I have missed paying the car note the last few months.I am trying to decide if I should try and catch up the payments(I do not qualify for a refinancing)or file bankruptcy to get a lower car note,or just give the car back,as soon as I can buy one for cash.I want to buy a house in the next 2 years if at all possible,and I dont know which of these choices would be the least harmful on my credit.

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I am about ,000 or so in debt right now. ,000 of it is from medical bills from an emergency surgery I had to have (I had insurance to cover the surgery but they only paid 10% and now I’m stuck with the medical bills from it and NO way to pay them). I’m working full time but am currently switching to part time because I just recently had a baby and need to be able to stay home some of the time with him to cut costs on babysitting. I don’t care tht the bankruptcy will be on my credit for 10 years….it will take me that long to pay off the medical bills at the rate I can afford to pay them now…I also have diabetes and my prescriptions cost a TON a month…it’s impossible for me to work part time (or even full time for that matter) and even survive at this rate. I need to get an apartment for my son and I and just can’t do it with the amount of bills I owe. Is there a minimum amount of money you must owe before filing bankruptcy? Will I be able to keep my car?
I have one of the cheapest cars you can buy (Chevy Cavalier) and it is 2002. Someone suggested I sell it and get a crappy car for now…I can NOT do that. I must have a solid, secure car to make sure I have a way to and from work and also to have transportation to my son’s docs appintments. I need to keep my current car and my interest rate on my loan is locked and VERY low (3.4%). This car is great…but if I file bankruptcy will I lose it?
I don’t WANT to send my son to a childcare center. They are dirty and nasty. His father and myself will be watching him. And I AM working full time right now thank you. I can NOT afford the debt I owe either way….

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Does anyone know of something besides bankruptcy to get credit cards paid off? Any private investors that do that sort of thing…lend money at a low interest rate? I’m not even sure that we could file for bankruptcy because we are not behind on any payments. Some how we are getting by, but are having to charge stuff, because once we make the minimum payment we have no money left. We own a home, but hasn’t been long enough to get any equity out of….any suggestions out there??

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I am going to be going through chapter 7 bankruptcy next month (November). My car has 70,000 miles and it is five years, and four months old since I purchased it in 2001 (it had 13 miles when I bought it). If I keep my car for two and a half more years before trading it in, can i get a decent loan after filing for chapter 7 bankruptcy this november? My attorney told me that it wouldn’t hurt me that bad because I get a VA compensation and they can’t garnish my wages. Please help. And if I can get a loan, what kind of interest rate would it be?

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