What do you do when you come to a point where you have a lot of debt which need to be cleared each month, but the interest rates are extremely high? Sometimes, people do not pay off the debt is because of the hefty charges and interest which eventually leads to bankruptcy. Nevertheless, bankruptcy is not always a good thing, thus, debt repayment is a must to avoid bankruptcy. Some of us may argue that our installments are merely enough to cover the high interest rate charged by the financial institution, but in fact, there is a way to reduce debt as well as the interest rate we are getting.

Before we get to the solution, first we need to understand that which loan are charging the highest interest to the lowest interest. Usually credit card and personal loan are charging higher interest compare to housing loan which eventually bring us to the debt consolidation as the solution to reduce debt.

What is debt consolidation and how it works? Debt consolidation entails taking out one loan to pay off many others. This is often done to secure a lower interest rate, secure a fixed interest rate or for the convenience of servicing only one loan. Usually for debt consolidation, loan is secured against an asset, and most of the case mortgage is secured against the house. Usually asset owner agrees to forced sale of asset to pay back the loan in which lowering the risk to the lender, thus the interest rate can be greatly reduced. Debt consolidation is usually used to reduce credit card debt as credit card debt carry a larger interest rate compare to most loans.

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