Credit Counseling Services: Find the Best Credit Debt Counselor

Posted by: Desiree B. | Dec 19,2007

When it comes to credit counseling, you have to be careful to choose the right credit debt counselor for you. Credit counselors provide you with advice and educational materials to help you get out of debt. They can help you create a budget and manage your finances. Unfortunately, there are a lot of unscrupulous credit counseling services out there. Use these tips to find a reputable credit debt counselor:

 

First off, reputable credit counseling services are usually free, or just require a small fee. If you contact a credit debt counselor and start hearing about fees based on what you owe, or monthly fees that have to be paid over and over again, keep looking.

 

Reputable credit counselors have education and training to help you manage your debts. They should hold some kind of certification related to counseling people on credit debt. And, they’ll gladly send you more information to review about their services without needing more information about your personal financial situation.

 

Your state’s Attorney General and the Better Business Bureau can help you ascertain whether a credit counseling service has had complaints filed against them. An absence of complaints on file is not a guarantee that a credit debt counselor is legitimate.

 

We’ll provide more tips for finding a reputable credit counselor on tomorrow’s blog.

 

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