Sub-prime Debt - Who's To Blame?


by Andy Adams - Date: 2008-02-02 - Word Count: 311 Share This!

When people get themselves into a financial fix it's normally through credit card debts or failing to meet mortgage repayments, either way they tend to become desperate and search for money through any means be it loans or in moments of blind panic - more credit cards.

If you end up in this situation where you are slipping when it comes to repayments then it's highly likely that your credit rating will start to tell a sorry story about you leading to many credit card and loan suppliers to turn their nose up at you.

Sometimes it isn't necessarily the borrower's fault that they are struggling, in recent news there has been a lot of talk about a credit crunch and in North America especially there has been a history of Sub-Prime Lending.

Sub-Prime lending is where a lender approves a form of lending such as a mortgage or credit card despite the borrower not being financially suitable and likely to be unable to repay the loan. A lot of financial companies have received considerable flak about this, citing that they have acted rather predatory on borrowers.

The problem is that it is not necessarily the lenders fault, a lot of sub prime mortgages or loans have been given to people who have lied about their ability to repay, a forgivable sin since it is often the case that people who need the money will be desperate enough to lie. In the case of sub-prime mortgages they are normally the ones that require little documentation to support their claim.

In America where sub prime mortgages have been rife lenders have offered mortgages with amazingly low rates to people who were on low incomes or debts and then the rates have risen exponentially down the line, this practice accounts for 21% of mortgage owners and has resulted in a large rise in homes being repossessed.

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If you are struggling and need advice on debt management then don't waste valuable time, look into arranging your loans perhaps via debt consolidation loans or other methods of debt management to make sure you get the debt behind you.

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