Debt Settlement – Carry Out By Yourself

The best solution to fight against debt is self evaluation and introspection. That’s effective because only you how to deal with debts. Analyze your actual financial state and try to make an effective plan for it. That effective plan should contain some rules such as when to spend money, where to spend etc. You should avoid spending money on extra stuff to get a lifetime relief from all debts. Here we are going to tell you some important tips that will be effective to fix all your debt related problems by yourself.

Debt settlement by yourself

Debt settlement is the right choice indeed when you suddenly find your financial condition in a worst state. Bad financial state means the state when you even fail to pay off the least amount of money on your credit cards, bills etc. Debt settlement is much better than filing bankruptcy in such a bad financial situation. Debt settlement will help you to reduce your outstanding debt balance by 40%-60%, guaranteed. Try first to settle those debts that contain higher interest rates. The debt settlement of such debts will give you a big relief. Here is the complete guide to the debt settlement:

1- Calculate the total amount of your debts.

2- Evaluate the type and the age of your all debt accounts.

3- Ask a copy of your credit report from your creditors/credit bureaus and thoroughly evaluate it.

4- Check your credit report and search if you are still have an account with your creditor.

Debt Settlement of the debt with the creditor

Imply these steps to settle your accounts that are still with your creditors.

1: Know the right way to contact your creditor, such as:

- You should know the debt negotiation tips

- You should be ready to make move according to creditor’s mood.

2: Check the creditors’ database to take the address and other useful information about creditors.

3: Check how much you can pay to your creditor before contacting your creditor to decide about your monthly pay offs.

4: Contact your creditor and describe him/her your plan in detail. Convince them how they can take benefit from your plan.

5: Inform your creditors in anticipation that you are mailing your plan to a list of creditors and you will pay the first installment to the first creditor that will contact you first.

6: Keep all the data of the acceptance letters in record and the amounts that are fixed with your creditors. Request a receipt of your amount that you “paid in full”.

7: Repeat the same practice every month and keep on adjusting debt settlement offers.

8: After paying off the large amount of debt, send the offers of paying back high percentages of the outstanding amount to creditors.

9: If you keep on repeating the same practice every month then soon you’ll become debt free.

10: Take your fresh credit reports time to time to keep yourself updated for the status of your accounts.

11: After paying off all the debts, ask your creditors to update the account status on your credit report as “paid as agreed”.