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Friday, October 31, 2008

Ways To Cheat Credit Agencies

You are no different from a lot of other people. No. Is all this a crime?

You are no different from a lot of loan applications. No. Is all this a crime? You have also filled in a lot of loan applications.

You have missed payments. Your credit record is poor. You are a spendthrift. Just face it.


In most cases, one 's nature can't be changed. But, this article is not intended to change your nature. Sure, change yourself, if only you can. Some would suggest that you need to transform your thinking so that you change your spending habit.

But because of your spending habits, your poor rating is hurting you badly. You are really desperate to improve your rating, and fast. I am going to show you how you can fool the credit rating agencies into thinking you're becoming credit-worthy. Just follow these 7 tips religiously, only for the next 90 days. (Sure, you can continue to follow these even after 90 days, if only you can.)

1. Stay Within A Budget

For just the next 90 days, religiously stick to a budget. Regulate your expenditure, week by week. Don't buy anything you don't really need. Do this only for the next 90 days till your rating improves.

2. Keep Your Payment History In Check

Your credit card payment history has impacted your credit rating adversely, right? For the next 90 days, only buy things you need with your cards and repay card debts on time.

You draw the attention of the credit bureau when you own more than two to four cards. Rather than have many cards with large unpaid balances on each, take a low interest loan to pay off some of them. Hold on to older cards which count for more points when your rating improves.

3. Make Payments On Time

Only for the next 90 days, don't wait till the last moment to pay off loans or bills shown on your credit report. Even if there 's a grace period offered the loan will still appear on the report, thereby damaging your score. Fool the rating agencies by paying ahead of time.

4. Don't Restrict Payments To The Minimum Allowable

Another way of fooling the raters is to pay more than the minimum allowed. That way, you save interest and owe less. Make sure your card balance is well within the limit during the next 90 days.

5. Be Wary Of Consolidating Debts

The surest way to alert the credit bureau that you have a problem paying your debts is to keep applying for loans, to use to wipe out older ones. They get another warning sign when you get new cards frequently, tempted by offers. Do debt consolidation selectively, and only as a repair measure, for the next 90 days. Even if you are simply checking out on the best offers, never give out your name and address, if you can avoid it.

6. Beat Them To The Draw

If you have missed a payment, talk to them and explain before they set collection agencies after you, which would damage your rating like nothing else.

When you talk, you can negotiate better if you have something to offer. Assist them in devising a new payment plan. Given a choice, opt for a longer payment period if the lower instalment will make it more affordable for you, while telling them you intend to repay.

7. Get Errors Rectified

Sometimes there are errors on your credit report. If these are not corrected in time, they hurt your credit score. Follow up with the credit bureau to insure that such errors no longer appear on your credit report. You might have to convince them about the error, as people at the bureau may not always agree with you about the error.

Append your explanation to your report. Take care, however, to steer clear in your comments of finding fault with anyone. Always appear to assume that any errors could have been inadvertent.

Once the plan is agreed on, request that your debt not be reported to the credit bureau. If your payment record on the amended plan is good, they are likely to concede to your request.

Do all this only for the next 90 days, and savor the feeling of power and confidence it will give you.

If you require a still higher rating, perhaps you may have to extend this 90 day period to 180 days or more


Thursday, October 30, 2008

You Count On Your Bank, But The Bank Count On You Even More

Some people might wonder why the banks would not have enough money to pay every depositor out. We are well aware, that banks rely on the fact that not all their depositors will wish to withdraw their cash at the same time, because if they did, the banks would not have the cash available to meet all the demand.

They make money with your money, and they pay you a bit as well, so you are happy. Providing there is no situation where everybody wants their money out at once, the banks have nothing to worry about on that score. But if you did want to take it out, there is cash from other depositors which can be used to deal with it.

The chances are you will leave the cash in the bank without taking it out, or taking out only a part of it. They will credit your account with the sum you deposited with them, but the actual cash will have gone to earn more interest than you will get. When a client places cash into his or hers account, the bank will invest it for themselves.


This all works very well unless there is a time when people fail to meet their obligations, and do not keep up the payments on their loans. Banks expect the odd case here and there, when someone cannot pay because of a bad investment or sudden personal difficulties. When there is a situation due to certain economic problems which can cause trouble to thousands of people to meet regular promised repayments, the matter is serious because cash must keep coming for the banks to keep the show on the road. Without that expected cash, the machine can stop. Liquidity is the vital.

To understand it better, imagine that you need money and you get cash advances from a credit card which we will call A. When you reach the credit limit you will have to make a minimum payment which you have not available, so you decide to get cash from another credit card B, and when that is due to be repaid, you use credit card C and so on. There comes a time of course, when you run out of credit cards and you have to make repayments from somewhere. Unless you sell the car or an item of some value or obtain a loan from some good fairy, you are going to go under.

The banks have an easier task, inasmuch that they can turn to the central bank to borrow money to get them over their liquidity problem. Nobody wants to allow a run on a bank, since it can trigger off other stampedes. It is a bad idea to cause people to lose faith in the banking system as a whole. In other words, it is not prudent to allow banks to go to the wall, and help will invariably be found, unless there is absolutely no other way.

We are now reaching the point when shortage of money available to the banks spells out shortage of money available for them to lend out.

As a consequence for instance, the housing market gets slowed down. When the house prices suffer, it is largely because the borrowers cannot get the money to make a purchase and not because they do not wish to buy. And even if the prices go down further, they will still not buy, simply because they will still find it hard to get a mortgage in the present climate.

As usual, at the end of the day, people who have cash money will be able to snap up some real bargains and wait until conditions change and make their profit. The bargains will be available in America as well as here and in other parts of the world.

While banks make money from your money, they earn a little for you as well. They also provide a number of services without which, life would be hard. However, you must not belittle your role in all this, meaning that although you need them, they certainly need you!

Things were going right for a large number of people with ready cash at their disposal to step in soon.

Yes, cash is King. Based on realistic prices, a lot of the properties will be sold in the main to cash buyers able to get their foreign currency from the foreign currency exchange companies at very good rates, especially if they phone around for the best deal. These lucky people, will find terrific deals waiting in the offices of friendly and good realtors in USA, in the UK, on the Continent, as well as in other parts of the world.


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