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Hello all!
Over the last few months my husband and I have separated, I have accumulated ALL debt ($60k in credit cards and a personal loan) from our marriage. My credit score has tanked to 530. I "refinanced" my vehicle with Navy Federal so I thought, but turns out it is a vehicle collateral loan! I am unable to refinance the vehicle anywhere to be a regular auto loan. I would like to do so if possible due to the fact that it's now adding on to my $60k in debt on my credit report as the way it's reporting instead of an auto loan. Any advice is helpful! Just trying to dig myself out of this hole and if it would even matter with all the debt I have!
The reality is with 530 Fico scores your options are going to be non existent whith the exception of predatory products (maybe not even those). The first order of business should be to correct the issues that are dragging your score down.
What did you do with the money from the vehicle equity loan?
Providing as many details about what your credit file looks like will help other members give you more specific advice as to what options might be best for you.
How many accounts do you have? What are their limits, and reported balances, What other adverse information is being reported on your credit? Late payments, charge offs, collections? When did they happen (how recent)?
Income and other monthly obligations? This will help determine disposable income that can be put towards reducing your debt.
Thank you for responding
I bring home about $8k a month net. It was an in-house refinance to help with the monthly payment, I didn't receive any money back from doing so. They told me it would be a refinance but turns out it's a collateral refinance, I have never heard of this before.
I have 3 late payments that should be rolling off at the beginning of the year and I am not late on any current payments. No charge offs and I have about $1,500 in medical collections.
Due Date | Bill | Min Payment | Balance | Notes |
1st | Mortgage | $2,250 | $280,000 | |
9th | Apple Music | $11 | ||
15th | Erie Insurance | $212 | ||
15th | Glofiber | $80 | ||
16th | Navy Fed Truck | $782 | $51,277 | |
18th | Hondalink | $10 | ||
24th | Amazon Prime | $15 | ||
25th | T-Mobile | $89 |
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28th | Ring | $11 | ||
30th | Electric | $187 | ||
30th | Water | $0 | ||
30th | YouTube TV | $83 |
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Due Date | Bill | Min Payment | Balance | Interest Rate |
4th | Dupont CC | $0 | $7,925 | 16% |
11th | US Bank CC | $96 | $2,396 | 28% |
12th | PayPal | $140 | $3,826 | 35% |
15th | Affirm | $66 | $468 | |
15th | Discover | $88 | $2,934 | |
15th | Navy Fed CC | $105 | $4,105 | 18% |
16th | Kohls | $29 | $206 | 31% |
16th | Capital One | $105 | $2,997 | 32% |
17th | PenFed | $15 | $484 | 18% |
20th | Discover | $64 | $1,918 | 28% |
20th | Old Navy | $30 | $454 | — |
22nd | US Bank CC | $51 | $456 | 29% |
23rd | SoFi Loan | $630 | $19,962 | 17% |
23rd | US Bank CC | $150 | $4,743 | 28% |
25th | Amazon CC | $128 | $3,446 | 30% |
25th | Capital One | $58 | $245 | 31% |
27th | Consumers | $61 | $3,954 | 20% |
30th | Apple CC | $50 | $1,489 | 27% |
31st | Dupont LOC | $0 | $0 |
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Sorry I didn't put the totals
Monthly reoccurring bills $4,130
Monthly debt $1,866
Appreciate all the information. The only thing that's missing is the credit limits for all the cards you listed. That would allow us to determine what your utilization is an each card and in aggregate.
Either way you should consider the avalanche paydown method, or the snowball method.
Avalanche is going to the best for you financially, saving you the most money in interest. You'd start with the highest balance, highest interest rate revolving credit card you have and throw every extra dollar you can at it until it's paid in full while making the minimum monthly payment on all your other accounts. Once that's paid off, you move to the next highest and so on. As you pay these high balances cards off you'll accumulate more extra funds to throw at the next one.
Snowball is the opposite of avalanche where you'd start with the lowest balance cards and as they're paid off you put the extra money towards the next card until they're all paid.
As your balances come down and your scores go up and that will allow you to start looking at refinancing the higher interest loans.
Some other notes. Getting the medical collection to below $500 will get it removed from your reports. If you have lates due to come off the first of the year, you're likely already eligible for EE (early exclusion) from TU. They'll remove adverse information 6 months early. EX will do 3 months early. EQ 30 days early
Thank you!
Basically every single credit card is almost maxed out. I'm sitting at 97% utilization. I will start with the snowball, that will be the most doable for me at the moment.