What Is Accelerated Debt Consolidation?

Posted by Nick Niesen on October 29th, 2010

Are you burdened with debts? Are you finding it harder each month to meet the minimum payments for your debts? Your debts are piling up every month, creditors' calls make your feel very stressing; and you are praying every day hoping some miracle will happen and get you out of debt. If you in such bad debt situation, accelerated debt consolidation could be the best solution for your debt dilemma.

In the debt consolidation, you are combining multiple, high-interest loans (debt) into a loan with a single monthly payment on a lower interest rate. Debt consolidation allows you to pay down more principle each month, often lowers monthly payments, and allows the balance of your debts to be cleared faster.

Your debts can be categorized into two types, unsecured debts and secured debts. Unsecured debts are the money you borrow from your creditors without the need of any collateral. Common unsecured debts include credit cards and personal loans. Secured debts, on the other hand, are loans or finance packages that are only approved with a pledge of your collateral in exchange for a certain amount of money and the creditors have lien on the pledged collateral. Common types of secured debts include mortgages, car finance, and loans on personal property. If you fail to pay your creditor in this case, you will lose your car or house or property.

Accelerated debt consolidation is quit similar with regular debt consolidation but it only counted in your unsecured debts. Although there is some exception, most accelerated debt consolidation programs will not include your secured debts; they will only take your unsecured debt.

When you enroll into an accelerated debt consolidation program, the counselor from the debt consolidation company will first understand your current financial situation and they will group all your debts into secured and unsecured debts. The counselor will only works on your unsecured debt and proposes a repayment plan after communicating and get the term and conditions from your creditors.

If you have a relatively bad credit score and unmanageable, massive debts, accelerated debt consolidation is probably your best option because this type of debt consolidation only takes your unsecured debts, which are in general at smaller amount if compare to secured debts (home loan or car loan amount normally is larger than credit card balances) and it can enabled you to put a debt consolidation plan in place with a short period of time, regular debt consolidation normally takes longer process.

Most of unsecured debts are high interest debts (credit card interest rates may range from 10%-18% and a personal loan may have interest rate as high as 12%), hence it good for you to put a plan to handle these high interest debts as soon as possible to avoid further worsen the situation. And an accelerated debt consolidation can be your best choice on this purpose.

In Summary

Accelerated debt consolidation is slightly different from regular debt consolidation; it only takes into consideration on your unsecured debts. The accelerated debt consolidation can be your best option if you are at the critical financial situation and urgently need a plan to put in place and get your debt in control.