Showing posts with label Does Consolidation hurt my credit?. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Does Consolidation hurt my credit?. Show all posts

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Does Consolidation hurt my credit?

NO. How bout that? You just read the world’s shortest blog. I may be a man of few words, actually just one word, but my words are even more powerful than the semi-popular teenage alien superhero duo of Zan & Jayna. That’s right, the Wonder Twins! Actually, by boasting about my one word blog I have now far exceeded that loneliest number, darn!

Consolidation is merely shifting your loans from piles A, B, and C and condensing them into pile D. That doesn’t hurt your credit at all, in fact in many cases it helps because your monthly payment is a lot lower after consolidation and your credit report will reflects a Paid status next to each loan involved in the consolidation which adds points to your FICO score.

Now if you were to do a debt settlement where a third party was involved in negotiating your amount of debt down, than that could impact your credit negatively. Instead of a Paid status it would carry a Settled or Settled for Less than Full Balance status.

By jrudy