Quick, Temporary Fixes for Your Summer Financial Crisis
Most of the financial advice you find online is geared toward people a few tax brackets above yours. You can only participate in the debt snowball or debt avalanche method if there is any room to trim expenses from your budget and put the extra money toward debt repayment. You are already living from paycheck to paycheck on an austerity budget, and you have been for as long as you can remember. You have not spent a penny on entertainment since before your oldest child was born; your idea of fun is going for a walk during the 20-minute interval between when you reach the street where your children’s summer camp is after work and the deadline for picking up the children without incurring a late fee; during that time, you listen to music with your free YouTube account and your years old headphones, and an ad invariably interrupts your bliss right before the beat drops. Despite this, the bills have piled up faster than you were expecting this summer, and you have to do something quickly to avoid financially catastrophic events such as missing rent payments. Unfortunately, most quick fixes work better when you have a financial cushion than when you do not, but desperate times call for desperate measures. For help getting through your summer financial crisis and thinking beyond it, contact a Boca Raton debt lawyer.
Credit Card Balance Transfer
A credit card balance transfer is when you open a new credit card account and immediately move some or all of the balance from your old credit card to it. When the middle class do this, it enables them to spend the next year paying down their credit card debt substantially, because every penny they pay goes to the principal balance. If you do it, you will end up making minimum payments on the principal balance of the new card while racking up new debts on the old one, but it is better than getting your electricity shut off; remember that Florida has no protections against shutting off utilities for nonpayment, no matter how hot the weather gets.
Buy Now, Pay Later
You already applied for a credit limit increase but got rejected, and now you must wait before you try to borrow again, or else you will just end up with more hard pulls on your credit report and no more funds to borrow. The good news about buy now pay later (BNPL) is that it does not involve a credit check. Yes, the payments will pile up if you make a lot of BNPL purchases, but at least it enables you to kick the problem down the road until the school year starts again.
Peer to Peer Loans
Peer to peer lending is a popular option with people whose credit history does not enable them to borrow from banks. Yes, it is risky and shady, but it is not as bad as payday loans.
Work With a Debt Lawyer About Holding On Until Better Times
A South Florida debt lawyer can help you find short-term and long-term solutions to your debt problems. Contact Nowack & Olson, PLLC in Boca Raton, Florida to discuss your case.
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