With the condition that the economy is in and with the housing market like it is a lot of people are trying to refinance their houses. They can get much cheaper interest rates now of course but refinancing can be expensive and banks won't work with you much if you are paying all your bills and have decent credit. Once you start getting in trouble and behind on bills and those bills go into collection everyone wants to work with. Mortgage companies worry about you defaulting so they start dropping interest rates without you having to pay the cost o refinance, they often forgive past due payments, credit card companies start lowering your interest rate and working with you on payments.
It really ridiculous. My sister is a family law atty and is having a very hard time collecting from her clients so that she can pay her own bills. She's been researching how to get her bills consolidated in interest lowered as well as calling her own credit cards companies and mortgage holder and it's all just bass ackwards. They are rewarding people that can't pay their bills and won't work with people that are still managing at all.
Did you know that is some instances you can come out of bankruptcy with pretty good credit but if you short sell your house your credit is ruined? So Jose may have just quit paying stuff for a while in order to get his lenders to work with him. :banghead:
It really ridiculous. My sister is a family law atty and is having a very hard time collecting from her clients so that she can pay her own bills. She's been researching how to get her bills consolidated in interest lowered as well as calling her own credit cards companies and mortgage holder and it's all just bass ackwards. They are rewarding people that can't pay their bills and won't work with people that are still managing at all.
Did you know that is some instances you can come out of bankruptcy with pretty good credit but if you short sell your house your credit is ruined? So Jose may have just quit paying stuff for a while in order to get his lenders to work with him. :banghead: