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When money gets tight this makes managing your personal finances a real challenge. Most of us have been in this position at one point in our lives. Often a life changing event happens and your can’t pay things like your credit card payments on time. Sometimes this can go on for several months. Your credit card companies then jack up your interest rates to a default rate for at least a year. This figure can often times be 30% or higher. This makes it almost impossible for you to pay any money on your principle balances.

We have personal finance tools that you can use to fix these kinds of personal finance problems. Debt settlement is one product we recommend to people for example. This is a process you can use when a credit card company jacks your interest rates up to default rate. You first try to get the credit card company to lower your interest rate back down to where it was at least. Demand that they lower it or you will stop paying your bill. If they don’t lower your rate back down which most of the time they will not. Then you stop paying your bill. Most of the time this is what is necessary to get the credit card companies to negotiate with you. Now this could take up to 3 years to settle a credit account. But once you are done you will only have to pay about 40% of what you owed. This process can have you completely debt free within 3 years paying the same amount per month as you pay now if not less for all your unsecured debt. When you use debt settlement you should always use a professional service of some kind. This is because they tell you what the creditors can and can not do to you. This also helps guide you through the whole process with some peace of mind that everything is being handled right. Read the rest of this entry »