Posted by admin on 18 Jan 2008 7:18 pm. Filed under Credit.
randyjess717 asked:
Me and my husband are going through some tough financial times and are looking at a possible foreclosure on a home we own in Florida. How can you repair your credit after an foreclosure?
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hyabusawife said:
On January 19th, 2008 at 10:36 am
This is tough. Is there a possibility that you can file bankruptcy instead? In most bankruptcy cases you can keep your home. A foreclosure is more damaging than bankruptcy. It will take years to repair your credit. Try to save your house first.
Mike P said:
On January 21st, 2008 at 3:16 am
While I never did anything on the scale you are facing, I did mess up my credit pretty badly during my younger days after I lost my job and two credit cards were cancelled for non payment.
A few years later I had my dad guarantee a loan I took out for a replacement car after my old one was stolen. After paying it off I had excellent credit again. If you are young you don’t have much to worry about, your credit will eventually fix itself, if you are older it might be tougher in the medium term.
str33t said:
On January 23rd, 2008 at 1:00 am
pay all your other bills on time. get a better paying job to pay your house bill and dont go through the foreclosure.
Ferne said:
On January 25th, 2008 at 12:26 am
You can’t. Unfortunately it’s always on the credit report, at least for 7 years and many times 10 years All you can do is make your self a better risk to creditors by paying your bills on time and paying them off. You need to keep a small credit account somewhere, llike a store credit card, so you have a history of paying on credit. We claimed bankruptcy once and in 3 years after I had a mortgage for a condo. but that’s only because I showed good experience paying all my bills after the bankruptcy. That bankruptcy stayed on my credit report for 10 years! This is the very same for forclosures…
William U said:
On January 27th, 2008 at 4:57 am
you have hope!….. my friend came from one of the “Big 3″ credit companies………he just finished an ebook than is going to shock people……..his techniques are so helpful and they worked!
On January 19th, 2008 at 10:36 am
This is tough. Is there a possibility that you can file bankruptcy instead? In most bankruptcy cases you can keep your home. A foreclosure is more damaging than bankruptcy. It will take years to repair your credit. Try to save your house first.
On January 21st, 2008 at 3:16 am
While I never did anything on the scale you are facing, I did mess up my credit pretty badly during my younger days after I lost my job and two credit cards were cancelled for non payment.
A few years later I had my dad guarantee a loan I took out for a replacement car after my old one was stolen. After paying it off I had excellent credit again. If you are young you don’t have much to worry about, your credit will eventually fix itself, if you are older it might be tougher in the medium term.
On January 23rd, 2008 at 1:00 am
pay all your other bills on time. get a better paying job to pay your house bill and dont go through the foreclosure.
On January 25th, 2008 at 12:26 am
You can’t. Unfortunately it’s always on the credit report, at least for 7 years and many times 10 years All you can do is make your self a better risk to creditors by paying your bills on time and paying them off. You need to keep a small credit account somewhere, llike a store credit card, so you have a history of paying on credit. We claimed bankruptcy once and in 3 years after I had a mortgage for a condo. but that’s only because I showed good experience paying all my bills after the bankruptcy. That bankruptcy stayed on my credit report for 10 years! This is the very same for forclosures…
On January 27th, 2008 at 4:57 am
you have hope!….. my friend came from one of the “Big 3″ credit companies………he just finished an ebook than is going to shock people……..his techniques are so helpful and they worked!