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Have You Thought About Debt Consolidation?

Is debt consolidation right for you? If you are like most people you have a substantial amount of credit card debt. You might be paying on two or three different credit cards and paying varying amounts of interest on the accounts.

You probably heard about consolidating your debt and how it can save you money and ease your credit card burden. But you need to understand how it works and if consolidation is right for you before you agree to any new loans. You need to understand how lenders view risk in order to understand the principle behind consolidation of debt.

The reason credit card interest is high compared to mortgage interest rates, is that lenders consider credit card lending riskier. That is, the credit card loan is an unsecured loan. There is no collateral to secure the loan.

There is no collateral to sell off on credit card debt. You use your credit card to take a vacation, buy a pair of shoes, buy tickets to the game. If you default on our credit card balance, there is nothing the lender can sell to recoup their loan. So they charge a large interest rate to make up for the money they lose when people default on their loan.

If no one ever defaulted on their credit card debt, the lenders would not have to charge a high interest rated. But they probably would anyway, simply because lenders like making as much money as possible off their loans.

But on home mortgage loans, the lenders can charge less in interest because the loan is secured by the real property. The lender can sell the house if the borrower defaults on the loan in order to get their money back. Real property in most cases goes up in value, so lenders are more likely going to get their original loan back and in some cases, more money because of the built up equity.

So when you consolidate your credit card debt, you put together all of your debt and take a loan out on your home and use your home equity to pay off the debt and the money you borrow is now secured by your home so you will have a lower interest rate. Further, the payments on your home loan are tax deductible. Find out if debt consolidation is right for you.

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