Finance can be very confusing sometimes. Even for the professionals in the world of loans and mortgages, there are so many choices and each lending product has its own set of criteria and they can and often do, change over time. It can be almost impossible to know everything about each one. It's easy to see then, how people can get themselves into somewhat of a pickle when they have a range of credit agreements to organise payments for each month.

Credit comes in a wide variety of types: mortgages, secured loans for homeowners, unsecured loans for homeowners, unsecured loans for tenants, tenant loans, bridging loans, business loans, commercial mortgages, credit cards, store cards, catalogues etc. People often have more than one agreement running at any particular time. In the case of tenants, they may have any or all of the following: unsecured loans, credit cards, store cards or catalogue credit. These are all unsecured forms of credit, where the loan is not guaranteed by securing against property. For tenants who rent their home rather than having a mortgage, this type of loan is the only option but even here, there is a wide variety of options so to find one that fits you and your circumstances may not be as difficult as many people first think.

Since the early 1990's, personal credit has mushroomed in the UK. Consumerism has really taken hold and people are rarely prepared to wait for the things they want, preferring instead to opt for a finance package to afford to buy it now and worry about the costs later. In many cases, it is not so much the combined monthly outgoings that's the problem but more the fact that there are several repayments that you need to remember which can make things complicated and there is always the chance that you could miss one which, although you can always pay it later, the fact that you have created an arrear could lead to severe problems in getting finance in the future.

Every time that you apply for finance, you create another record on your personal credit file. Equally, when you make a repayment or indeed, when you miss one, default altogether or worse still, you acquire a CCJ for non-repayment of your credit, these are also recorded and are available for a finance company to view when they deciding whether to lend money to you. Taking good care not to miss a repayment is always a good policy as it could spare you from a higher interest rate, a reduced loan offer or a complete refusal to lend money to you in the future.

Unsecured loans for tenants and tenant loans are available for any personal use in the main and one of the most common reasons for taking out such a loan is for debt consolidation purposes. You could convert all of your outstanding unsecured credit into one monthly repayment by taking out a loan and paying off all off all of the balances and potentially reduce the amount of interest that you were currently paying. Simple! Just contact an online broker and complete the enquiry form and sit back and relax. You could have sorted it all out in a week or so and your finances will be in a much more convenient shape so that you need not worry so much about missing a repayment again in the future.

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Andy Silk is FinanceGuru for FeelGoodLoans.co.uk, specialists in unsecured loans for tenants, loans and mortgages for UK homeowners and business owners.