Settling for less than full, how will it effect me? A bit different scenario here….

 

 

Well, basically in a nutshell, I took out a loan for a significant other that was promised to be repaid.

Things go south about a year later and she stops paying. I have a signed promissory note and there is now a judgement against this individual for the amount owed. 

 

Details;

$10K loan, 27% interest. 

(Yes, stupid I know, had an emergency, I came through, she made good money, but decided b/c the relationship was over, so was the whole taking care of her financial responsibilities issue)

 

I have been making payments on this loan for over 3 years now. At first, I paid the full amount every month for about 6 months. This became too much for me to handle, and they adjusted my payments to half, which all basically went to the interest. 

 

I can no longer keep up with payments as I am working part time (I made all payments previously even while on unemployment), and I refuse to continue putting out money towards a debt that I feel is not mine and that could be going to keep a roof over my head and food in my mouth. 

 

Here is where it differs from the other posts I have seen on here.

I have a 729 (give or take) credit score with no past due accounts, no delinquencies, nothing negative to report at all. 

 

I contacted Citifinancial about doing a lump sum payment aka settling the loan right now. I offered them 5K to do so. They came back at 6300, and sent info to main office to try to lower this. 

I would like to settle this loan and be out from under it, NOW.

 

But I am now seeing that if they report it as “settled for less than full amount” that it will ding my credit pretty badly. I am wondering if anyone knows what kind of damage this will do?

 

I currently have 5-6 open credit cards with only 3 having small balances adding up to maybe $2500. I also have a small school loan I am still paying off, and the only other debt I have is my mortgage. 

I am not planning on needing any other credit, new mortgage, etc for quite some time, so if it will ding my score to something that I can make up in 6 months or so, I am just going to take the hit. 

 

And I am also trying to do a loan modification on my mortgage, so I am wondering if this possible settlement will effect that. 

 

Sorry for the rambling, but I am just mentally tired of worrying every month where this money will come from to pay ONLY the interest for the month. 

 

I could more than likely pay the full amount, but with the cash crisis I am in right now in terms of paying my bills, the extra $2K plus in my pocket by not paying in full is quite attractive. 

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

 

Thanks

 

I wanted to share some new information in regards to individuals that are applying for or already have student loans. The problem is not be able to get the student loans. The issue is the future creditors when you want to get more credit. I had actually talked to one of the financial institutions and this is what they had told me. There are a few factors that are being considered. First, a college degree does not guarantee the job or career. Second, the default rate per year on student loans is approaching 250,000. Even though the student loans are deferred the individual is still in debt which would be at a 100 percent debt to income ratio. They have to treat those deferred loans just the same as someone who has a high to debt income ratio. Therefore any applications for auto loans, mortgages, personal loans, & credit cards will be denied until a sizeable chunk of the original balance is paid down. On deferred loans the interest is added to the balance. The only way that someone with an existing loan can possibly get other credit is to have a parent or other qualified applicant as a cosigner. This basically means that the cosigner has to have a good credit report & score as well as keeping within their own debt to income ratio. The creditors or lenders are not going to put themselves or you in a more riskier situation. I know that you will find this interesting. Please be aware that student loans can not be included or discharged in bankruptcy.

 

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I’ve been trying to remove inquiries, some that were mine (LOL) but also some that were not. I’ve sent letters to the CRA’s AND the individual companies, with no responses at all. Does anyone have any advice?

 

Well after much reading and researching on myfico I think that it is time for me to post my baddies, and see if I can get some solid advice on what to do to reach my credit goals.  I was deployed to Afghanistan where I was blown up, and spent a lot of time in the hospital.  During all of this the person the I degalated as my Power of Attorney decided not to pay my bills (had better ideas of how to spend my money)  So after I was released for the hospital I started to pay off my debts. First, I have paid off of my prior debt.  In the last year I have opened 2 CC’s and I use them and pay them right down every month, about a 2% Util ratio.  I also took out a loan, deposited the money right into a savings account, and set up autopay form that account (I thought that was pretty crafty on my part).  Lastly,  DF has added me as an AU on her Capital One CC that has 0% Util ratio, 5 years of strong credit history with no lates.  So I am trying to clean up the prior baddies to go with my positive new stuff.

 

First:

I have a $63 paid Medical Collection that was PIF by a company called MedRev. 

Second:

Charge Account   Military Star

Status as of: Mar 2010

Date opened: May 2006

Date of last activity: Jan 2007

Date paid out: Jan 2007

Date Closed: Sep 2007

Acct Number: XXXXXXXX

Loan Type: Charge Acct

Credit Limit: 2500

Largest past due balance: 2748

Terms: Not reported

Account type: Revolving Acct

Account Holder: Individual Acct

Scheduled payment amount: Not reported

Descriptions: account closed due to transfer

Current Status:  Payment after CO/ collection

Third:

Other Acct   Pioneer Military Lending

Status as of: May 2010

Date opened: Jun 2008

Date of last activity: Nov 2009

Date paid out:  Not reported

Date Closed: Not reported

Acct Number:  XXX(then some numbers)

Loan Type: Unsecured

Credit Limit:   Not reported

Largest past due balance:  3537

Terms: 28 monthly

Account type: Installment Acct

Account Holder: Individual Acct

Scheduled payment amount: 168

Descriptions: Profit and loss writeoff

Current Status:  Charged off as bad debt (PIF just waiting for the CRA to update, did not do PFD,  learned that too late, sorry late comer to myfico….lesson learned)

Fourth:

Credit Card   HSBC

Status as of: Mar 2009

Date opened: Jan 2008

Date of last activity: Sep 2008

Date paid out: Sep 2008

Date Closed: Oct 2008

Acct Number: XXXXXXXX

Loan Type: Credit Card

Credit Limit:   0

Largest past due balance: 945

Terms: Not reported

Account type: Revolving Acct

Account Holder: Individual Acct

Scheduled payment amount: Not reported

Descriptions: dispute resolved- customer disagrees

Current Status:  Payment after CO/ collection

Fifth:

Student Loan Acct AES/NCT

Status as of: Aug 2009

Date opened: Sep 2004

Date of last activity: Aug 2009

Date paid out:  Aug 2009

Date Closed: Aug 2009

Acct Number: XXXXX(then some numbers)

Loan Type: Student Loan

Credit Limit: Not reported

Largest past due balance: 21787

Terms: 199 Monthly

Account type: Installment Acct

Account Holder: Primary borrower on acct

Scheduled payment amount:  0

Descriptions: Profit and loss writeoff

Current Status:  Charged off as bad debt

I have been paying as agreed for about a year, in fact just raised what I pay them monthly, but they said that this will not be updated until the whole acct if taken care of

Sixth:

Vehicle Loan Acct Santandar Consumer USA

Status as of: Feb 2010

Date opened: Mar 2008

Date of last activity: Feb 2010

Date paid out:  Not reported

Date Closed: Feb 2010

Acct Number: XXXXXX(some numbers)

Loan Type: Automobile

Credit Limit:  Not reported

Largest past due balance: 16902

Terms: 62 unspecified

Account type: Installment Acct

Account Holder: Individual Acct

Scheduled payment amount:  447

Descriptions: Closed

Current Status:  Paid or paying as agreed

The baddie on this is two 30 days late 9/08 and 11/09 (both when I was in the hospital)

Eighth:

Vehicle Loan Acct  ESL FCU

Status as of: Jan  2009

Date opened: Oct 2002

Date of last activity: Jan 2009

Date paid out:  Not reported

Date Closed: Jan 2009

Acct Number: XXXXX(some numbers)

Loan Type: Automobile

Credit Limit: Not reported

Largest past due balance: 19341

Terms: 72 monthly

Account type: Installment Acct

Account Holder: Individual Acct

Scheduled payment amount: 356

Descriptions: account closed by consumer

Current Status:  Paid or paying as agreed

 

Like a dummy I cosigned for a buddy, and he didn’t do so well. 30 days late 12 x’s, 60 days late 4 x’s, and 120 days late 2 times.  Last of the lates were in Mar of 07

 

Ninth:

Credit Acct   Time Financial

Status as of: Apr 2010

Date opened: Nov 2008

Date of last activity: Nov 2009

Date Closed:  Not reported

Acct Number: XX(then a few numbers)

Loan Type: Not reported

Largest past due balance: 454

Terms: Not reported

Account type: Installment

Account Holder: Individual

Scheduled payment amount: 69

Descriptions:  Consumer disputes-reinvestigation in progress

Collection

Current Status:  120+ days past due

I have PIF on this acct months ago, agreed to PFD over phone (again a pre-myfico mistake), however I paid this off in Mar and still has not updated. I called OC and they said that they have sent it to the CRA but to just wait.

Tenth:

Credit Acct Verizon Wireless

Status as of: May 2010

Date opened: Sep 2008

Date of last activity: Oct 2009

Date Closed: Not reported

Acct Number: Not reported

Largest past due balance: 456

Terms: Not reported

Account type: Open acct

Account Holder: Individual

Scheduled payment amount:   0

Descriptions: Customer disputes this acct information

Current Status:  Bad debt/ collection

Another PIF without PFD

 

I really appreciate any solid advice that you can give to help me reach my goals, and of course I will post with any success or failures that I have along the way.  Again many thanks!!!

 

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