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Alternative
Ways To Avoid a Payday Loan
If you spend more
than you earn on a regular basis, it is a bad
practice. To overcome this situation, if you opt for
a payday loan, it will be a “risky solution”. Payday
loan companies often take the advantages of your
need and lead you in debt trap.
The most obvious disadvantage of payday loan is High
cost. The APR of payday loan varies between 400% to
800%. Think about your investments even on a high
interest stock, you can get an annual return of 20%
to 30% for investment on a stock although
investments on stocks are considered as “high risk”.
So, consider about all the possible alternative ways
before opting for a payday loan cash advance.
• Payday loan borrowing situation arises due to bad financial planning. I
suggest you to prepare a realistic budget at the
beginning of each month in order to keep the balance
between your earnings and spending. Avoid
unnecessary purchases. Also save some money each and
every month. Your savings will be counted at the
time of crisis. Consider taking help from a consumer
credit counseling bureau.
• Ask your creditors to give you a favor by waiting until your next
payday. If you can manage them to do so, you need
not to borrow the loan and thus you can save 15-30
USD by not paying the loan interest!
• Use your credit card for making urgent payments. Usually credit card
loan’s interest rate is very low; even you have to
pay nothing as interest if you repay the loan within
a month. Again you save $15-$30 by not paying the
loan interest.
• Ask your banker or a credit union for a short-term loan. The costs of
these loans are such that you can easily afford.
• Ask your employer to provide you with a portion of your salary as
advance so that you can cope up with your emergency
bills.
• Consider in borrowing money from your friends or relatives.
Actually for a time lag of 1-2 weeks nobody will
prefer not to provide you the money (I strongly
believe so!) unless you had a bad credit history
with him or her. Thus you will meet your money
requirements with no interest charges at all! Also
think about the harassments if you can’t be able to
repay the loan at specific date to the payday
lender!!
• Consider in making arrangements with your banker regarding
withdrawal facility from your checking A/c in order
to protect yourself from making extra charges on
bounced checks. This facility costs you as little as
$5.Sometimes no fee is needed at all!
• When you shop for credit, check the APR and other official charges
of different credit offers. Thus you can avoid
higher monthly charges with lower credit cost.
• Many social groups and communities provide urgent assistance
either directly or by various social services
programmes. For example, I can mention “Federal low
income home emergency assistance programme” provides
financial assistance to families with lower income.
• There are several loan companies who offer $500 to $100 loan to
active in duty & retired military personnel. The APR
of these military loans range from 34% to 40% which
is 10 to 15 times cheaper than payday loan.
• There are also several Consumer finance companies that provide
small consumer loans at a low APR of 60%, which is
also cheaper than payday loans.
Do the homework when you are about to borrow a
payday loan. Look for low interest payday loan.
Gather all the knowledge about payday loan before
borrowing it. For more detailed discussions on
payday loan alternatives, visit
http://www.ampmcash.com/loan-alternative.html .If
you have any problem or query regarding payday loan,
join our discussion board at
http://www.ampmcash.com/talk.html
About the Author
Angelina Rosario is
a contributing writer of
http://www.ampmcash.com/ you are invited to
visit her site for the latest on payday loan news
and information. Also check the FAQ’s on payday loan
at-
http://www.ampmcash.com/faq/
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