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Personal Signature Loans and The Art of Borrowing
The global economy is a big foul-up right now, and all the credit (or blame) can be placed squarely on the shoulders of irresponsible borrowers everywhere. Borrowing intelligently is really an art form, and the large majority of credit users are doing it as stupidly as anyone ever could. What we're bringing in in the form of income doesn't come close to what we're sending out in the form of borrowed spending, and we seem to have given up entirely on putting money away for a rainy day - that's right - nobody saves anymore.
Residential real estate, and all the abuses on the both sides of the transactions, is the most glaring indicator of how ridiculous our country has chosen to behave itself with respect to credit and lending practices. A plumber earning $54,000 per year has no business borrowing $400,000 to buy a home; he'll never be able to to keep up with the payments. And now the taxpayers of the world, most of all those who have kept their mortgage current by not borrowing more than they could pay back, are footing the bill.
We have to do better next time, and doing better means using credit intelligently. Most of the time borrowing wisely means not borrowing at all, including avoiding personal signature loans and other quick cash borrowing tools. Stay away from them no matter what - even if it means taking a part time job to get by in the meantime.
I'm taking a strong stance on this issue because short term cash loans could put you in a hole from which you might never remove yourself. Their repayment terms and interest rates are usurious to say the least. Could any intelligent person really pay 100% and hundreds of dollars in fees on a loan designed to help them survive the month?
So, it's always going to be a terrible move, but sometimes I suppose using these kinds of loans will be unavoidable. You might lose your job due to an unfair boss who fired you just because you nicked his car pulling out of the parking stall at the office. Next thing you know you're out of a job.
In spite of how unfair the firing is, there may not be a whole lot you can do about it. What are you going to do - sue him? The reality is that in a lawsuit, nobody wins. And how are you going to pay a lawyer anyway?
The only remaining option may be to bite the bullet and head to your local bank or loan store. After all, your mortgage company isn't going to let you skip payments just because you have a crazy boss; they have big time cash problems of their own.
Here's my advice: borrow the absolute minimum you need to get by until you and secure a new job and your next paycheck. And take any job you can get - in this economy we can't really afford to get greedy or picky when it comes to making a few bucks. For the next few years it's in all of our best interest to do whatever is (legally and ethically) necessary to feed our families and keep our bills paid.
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