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Advice on getting a new car

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Advice on getting a new car

I have a credit score of around 580 I know it would probley go up more of i pay off come of my cc balances, i was looking into buying a car around febuary. I also have 4 unpaid medical collectiond which total up too no more than 500 all together my question is... should i pay off all the medical bills they been on my CR for about 3 yrs now. I was planning on putting 1500 for a down payment how should i go about handling this??? I was in the intrest of looking for a car around 10k
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Re: Advice on getting a new car

Paying off the collections will not improve your score.  You would have to do a PFD. 

 

If you have the time I would use the HIPPA process for the medical collections.

 

Paying down your CC debt will help also.

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