Co-Signing Gone Wrong

Co-signing Gone Wrong

We did a short webinar with Marlon (The Kreditmogul), Marlon, who is very knowledgeable on credit restoration and have helped me and other people to restore their credit score to the levels that are acceptable and allow creditors extend better terms when it comes to personal purchases (car loan, mortgages to purchase a home, etc) and Co-signing gone wrong for would be home buyers.

Having credit allows people not just get better with their financials because credit is just about everything nowadays, right? We need to have credit so that we can purchase stuff, we need the credit, even for other things like applying and being considered for job opportunities and obtain positions where the integrity, character and responsibility of the person is important.

There are 3 parts of this webinar that we hope to help people with understanding the ramifications of each of them and how it affects their credit but most importantly their long term financial health and how to keep their credit file in good standing, this one is about a Co-sigining gone wrong, listen up.

Why You Should Think Before You Co-Sign

The first is about being a CO-SIGNER on a loan and how doing Co-signing can go wrong! I know it sounds great. You know, that we have family and close friends of ours that might want us to help them, but it can also be a risk because the reason why I say that is that if something happens, we become a co-signer for our primary account. Yes, you are also held just as 100%, follow me 100% responsible as the primary, right. So whatever reflects on that primary reflects also on the secondary, which is the co-signer.

So the same liabilities are shared under the same roof guys. So be careful with co-signer. It could be as, as good tempting, but it could also be a trap for anyone who does not understand the ramification, just don’t do it and realize the consequences that can come behind that. I always share with people what I went through myself, but I always want to help people understand you can do it on your own and could be where you need to be as far as, getting qualified for an approval for auto loan, eventually a mortgage or personal debt of that nature that fall in that category without even having a cosigner, it’s all about just re-building your credit and getting yourself established and then going out there and doing it the right way. Okay. So that’s what I would share about cosigner. Be careful.

What Other Have Found About Being a Co-Signer on a Car Note, Consumer Debt, Mortgage, Etc

Being a Cosigners is a very delicate thing to do, especially when you cosign for people that are not directly in your circle, like a close family member or someone like that, you must be very careful, and you must know the person. I find a lot of people in my real estate practice that they want to purchase a home, but they were a co-signer for a friend and what happens is that the friend wasn’t as responsible the person thought he was, and then he goes out or she goes out and sign up for a vehicle for this person, and then all help break loose. I mean, the person has an accident, get sued, they take the car away and as would find out, the debt they don’t take away, the debt still got to get pay some kind of way and if you’re the cosigner, then now you are responsible for all these liabilities.

Lots of people have come to find out the hard way that being a cosigner is not something that you, you should think or take lightly. I mean, it’s something that maybe you can do for your daughter or son, your mom or, or somebody very close that you know is not going to get you in trouble and it’s going to be able to pay their debt and even when you do it like that, you have, you have to know that there’s certainly a degree or level of responsibility on your part, because if something happens to that person and you want to keep your credit profile in good shape, then you’re going to probably have to take over that debt eventually, Find out how you can improve your credit and be able to purchase a home hopefully without the need of a co-signer.

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