Packing up your belongings and moving is often exciting. It means you are taking a step forward on your life path. It is also often an extremely stressful time. If your credit is bad, or you haven’t had a chance to develop your credit rating yet, you feel the stress even more. Moving can also be expensive. You have to deal with rents and security deposits, a moving vehicle, buying or replacing items that you may have to leave behind, and more. Getting moving loans with bad credit can also be difficult, especially if you don’t know where to look. You may start to wonder if the move is going to happen at all.
Planning Your Move
Before you do anything regarding your move, you need to sit down and plan everything out. You need to make a schedule, a budget, a list of everything you will need to do, pay for and have in the future. Let’s go over some things you need to keep in mind.
First, you should take a look at your credit report and start looking into ways in which you can start repairing it if you haven’t already done so. This will not only help you now but will help you in the future. By knowing your score, you won’t be hit with any surprises that could put a wrench in your plans. If you have enough time to repair your credit score, you will be able to get a better loan if you need to finance your move later on.
Start looking into places for rent in the area you would like to rent. Pick an area that you know you can afford easily. Your credit is bad? You are looking into moving loans for bad credit? Then you might want to have a fairly good idea of what amount you will be looking into seeking from a lender. As you work on finding your new home, think about how you will go about moving your things. Now that you’ve looked into preparing for financing a move, as well as your next residence, you need to plan the move itself.
What You Need for Moving
Will you use the help of friends and family? Or will you need to rent a moving van? Professional movers might also need to be considered if you don’t have help lifting heavy items. Make sure you look carefully into costs. Whatever you can do by yourself, such as packing, do it. Remember, movers usually charge per hour, so you don’t want to keep them working more than you actually need them.
Lastly, will you need to purchase any furniture or are you fairly well set on the basics? All of these answers will vary from one person to the next. Your answers will help determine how much money this move is going to cost you. They will also help you budget for the move. Let’s take a look at how you can increase your chances of finding a landlord that will rent to you with bad credit.
Should You Get a Moving Loan For Bad Credit?
Some people looking into moving loans for bad credit are concerned that adding another item to their credit reports will further damage their credit. This misconception comes about because every time someone checks your credit report, it is noted on the report and too many requests for credit in a short period of time can adversely affect your score. It isn’t likely, however, that you have had many such requests if this concerns you and you are trying to work at getting your score up. Qualifying for a loan can actually help you in improving your credit.
Consider This
Every time you make your loan payment on time, the company will report that as a positive to the credit company. Once you have paid the loan off completely, that is also reported. These positive reports will help add points to your credit score. They show you aren’t where you were at one point and that you are more dependable than your previous score indicates. You get the help you need paying for your move, improve your credit standing, and gain a peace of mind that your move isn’t going to put you in a period of financial hardship. It’s a winning situation.
Let’s weigh pros against cons when taking out a moving loan for bad credit.
Pros
- Better rates and more affordable than credit cards.
- Get the funding quickly
- Take our larger sums of money.
- Fixed rates
Cons
- Going into debt
- Have to pay for fees
- High rates for bad credit
By now, you’re able to determine whether you need a moving loan, if it’s worth it for you and plan everything regarding your move and finances. But what about renting with a bad credit? Let’s look into it.
Finding a Place With Bad Credit
There are no shortage of apartments for rent at any given time. Winters are often the time of year when you find fewer options. That could be to your advantage, however, as most property owners don’t like leaving their places empty during the colder months. This may require them to get utilities like gas and electricity in their own names. Why? In order to prevent damage from the cold. There are other ways you can increase your chances of getting someone to work with you even with less than perfect credit.
- Consider making a deal to pay an extra month’s rent or increased security deposit. This shows the owner you are serious.
- Have someone with a better credit score become a moving loan co-signer. This way the landlord knows you aren’t the only one that he has to count on for his rent.
- Discuss the possibility of allowing the landowner to have each month’s rent automatically transferred from your account. This is often the one thing that works when nothing else does because they can count on the bank following through with the automatic withdrawals.