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The History Of Accounting

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Today, I'm gonna cover, it's a reader question that I've had submitted right here, but I want to talk about it in a different context than how it reads. So, I'm gonna start off with saying this. Doing the right thing, or what you perceived to be the right thing about your unaffordable debt doesn't necessarily get you the results that you're thinking.

How does that add up? All right, so, I want to get in to the reader question and I'm gonna answer very distinctly and directly to start with. And then you'll understand a little bit better as to how this woman has set herself up to not accomplish her credit reporting goals. Here we go. We're up to date, but drowning in debt. Then I lost my job. At bankruptcy attorney's advice, I stopped …show more content…

In other words, you're asking will AMEX, Bank of America, and Capital One and these creditors remove that because you continued to pay them, absolutely not. You have to try and catch those kind of situations before they charge-off the account. Then there is something called re-aging, where they bring your account current, even though you didn't pay six months of arrears or five months of arrears or three months of arrears.

You just start making payments again and as long as you make a few in a row on time, they'll re-date your account on your credit report so that it doesn't appear as if it's in delinquent. It's being not delinquent in perpetuity. Once the charge-off occurs, it's not going to be undone. They can't undo it. So, with that credit damage and your goal of trying to bounce back financially, I typically find that the best, and this is kind of counter intuitive, the best way to do that or accelerate that is to settle your debt with your creditors for less than you owe. Making it so that you can get out of debt quicker. Quicker than you could have in a Chapter 13.

Quicker than you could have now making the payments. And that way, you bring your accounts to a zero balance owed. The negatives aren't going to get any more negative because you settled. All that damage was done when you allowed them to charge-off. So, focusing on what you can do in the near term one, two, three years while

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