The Truth About Bankruptcy Equity Home Loans

By John Reyes

For some of us, bankruptcy looks like the only option to get out of debt in anything resembling a reasonable length of time. Making this decision is very difficult. It can be even more difficult to establish credit after declaring bankruptcy. It's hard, but possible. An equity home loan is a certain kind of credit that is available when going through a bankruptcy. There are however, some facts regarding bankruptcy equity home loans that people should be made aware of.

Such bankruptcy equity home loans are sometimes utilized to satisfy a chapter- kind of bankruptcy before term. You are given 3-5 years to discharge all debts filed under chapter-. On special occasions, the debtor's lawyer can submit a formal request to create an additional debt with the intention of eliminating the original debts more quickly and with a smaller amount of interest.

Once approved, the attorney can then negotiate with banks to find a home equity loan that has terms the person can pay off on time and will provide enough money to discharge a good share of the unsecured debts against this person.

If the debtor currently has a home equity loan at the time of bankruptcy, you need to be aware that this is a secured debt. This means that the only way to discharge this debt through bankruptcy, under any chapter, is by surrendering one's property and leaving the home.

The same holds true for home equity loans obtained while covered under a bankruptcy proceeding. The only choices you have to get rid of this debt are to pay it back in full according to the terms agreed on when taking out the loan or to turn your property over to the lender.

This fact can work to the advantage of homeowners who are going through a bankruptcy. Banks are more willing to consider making a loan to someone with sufficient security to cover the amount of the loan and sufficient reason to ensure that it gets paid back on time.

You can also begin to build you credit again once you have finished with your bankruptcy by using a bankruptcy equity home loan. As long as the loan payments are made consistently and in a timely manner, this will be reported to credit reporting agencies as a positive mark on one's credit report and will increase the credit score.

Even though obtaining credit while one is in bankruptcy is difficult at best, a bankruptcy equity home loan can be the step up that a person needs to get back on track and emerge from the bankruptcy in a better position than would have been thought possible. It can help to pay off creditors much more quickly than would otherwise be possible. It can also help to make the payments easier to afford by giving one more time than the allowed three to five years to pay the loan off in full. One must simply remember that this loan must be repaid regardless of what else gets done because it is a lien against real property that can and will be taken if the loan is defaulted on. - 31380

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