Tuesday, 12. October 2010
I have issued another general warning about the lack of money available to lend and the subsequent repercussions. I have had many people writing to me explaining that they had strong credit but have been declined for loans on several occasions and are now being told that they have dropped into the sub-prime category, which means they will pay high rates of interest if they are able to secure finance at all. The reason for this is the fact that whilst there are still lenders willing to offer low rates Read more »
Thursday, 4. February 2010
If you have an iPhone – you poseur, I don’t of course, but if you do there are now apparently ‘apps’ for just about everything – so I’ve been told. Apps. standing for applications or software programs. One of the latest ‘apps’ comes from a company called Wonga who provide what are known as ‘payday loans’, allowing people to borrow a sum of several hundreds of pounds to tide you over till payday. But what has Read more »
Wednesday, 27. January 2010
Cleaning up your credit file has never been more important. Less money is available to lend which means that you really must make sure that you have no errors on your file and anything that can be corrected is corrected before you apply for finance. Even using a bad broker, who makes multiple applications to several finance companies, using your single finance application, can cause you to have your credit Read more »
Wednesday, 20. January 2010
A few years ago I was a consultant to Yes Car Credit, a company that I hugely respected because, in many ways, they got it right! However, becoming the UK’s largest seller of used cars in about 4 years carried with it a number of problems that the UK press, as always, was eager to pounce upon. The company was selling nearly 50,000 cars per annum at the point of its demise and I would admit that the combination of Read more »