Where Will Bad Debt Lead You?
Remember the good olde days when you had a great credit score, a wallet full of credit cards, a mortgage (maybe 2), a couple of car loans, and plenty of money at the end of the month?
Suddenly the credit cards are all maxed out and the extra money is now going toward bills. Then the minimum payment amount is all you can send. Next those payments start arriving late and you get hit with a late fee. Worse even the late fee causes your balance due to exceed the credit limit. Now your hit with late fees and over the limit charges 
and your balance due begins to climb. As does the minimum payment due. Now your good credit is becoming bad debt.
You try to sell the second home but the value has declined and you owe more than it’s worth. If you’re lucky you successfully complete a short sale and avoided foreclosure, but not likely.
Now the second home is gone, second car as well, and the phone rings constantly with your creditors wanting you to pay off your bad debt. The house and car payments are now falling 1, 2, 3 or more months behind and they too are calling. Problem is you have no money to send anything more than what you currently are, and your bad debt begins to grow. Next you stop paying some or all of the credit cards in an attempt to keep up the the home and car loans.
Months go by and the credit cards have now charged off your bad debt. Great they’ll stop calling right! Actually they sold your debt to a collection agency. These hounds now begin coming at you harder than ever.
The house is now in foreclosure, the car is about to be repo’d, the phone never stops ringing, and your credit score has plummeted. What could possibly be worse? The final phase that’s what.
Both homes have been lost to foreclosure, both cars repo’d, you have tens of thousands of dollars in credit card debt, and your filing bankruptcy.
So what is your future with all this bad debt? You are facing a 7 to 10 year (possibly longer) recovery period during which you will not be able to finance the purchase of even a toaster oven.
If this story is familiar or looks like a road you are headed toward, take whatever evasive action you can right now. The more people we have who must ride out this final phase, the longer it is going to take for us as a nation to reach economic recovery.
Help yourself and your country, avoid bad debt!