Posts Tagged ‘balance transfer’
How Can a Credit Card Balance Transfer Save Me Money?
Like most credit card holders, you have likely seen your mailbox or inbox inundated with credit card balance transfer offers. Should you take advantage of one? Or are you better off sticking with your current credit card? In many instances, consumers are well advised to do a credit card balance transfer in order to save money. Let’s look at how the balance transfer works and how you might come out ahead if you decide to do one. How Balance Transfers Work When you do a balance transfer of your credit card debt, it involves taking the current balance that you [...]
What You Need to Know About 0% APR Balance Transfer Offers
You may have received an offer in your mailbox or via email for a 0% APR balance transfer when you take out a new credit card with a particular company or bank, and are wondering if this offer is too good to be true. Zero percent APR balance transfer offers can be worth looking at if you are carrying high interest credit card debt – but you must be able to read between the lines and really go over the fine print of the offer in order to make it worthwhile. Terms of the Offer As appealing as a 0% [...]
How Can I Consolidate Credit Card Debt?
While the numbers suggest that the economy is improving slightly, millions of Americans are still struggling to get out from underneath their own personal recessions. For many of them, this involves dealing with a number of credit cards and paying them off. One method of paying them off involves moving all of your small, high-interest balances onto a larger, low-interest loan and paying that off as opposed to making payments on the interest only, which is akin to letting a boat fill up to a certain level of water and just trying to keep out any excess. There are several [...]
Opt for a No Fee Balance Transfer and Save
Credit card holders are well aware of the endless stream of offers that they get for new credit cards. Nine times out of ten these offers usually go into the trash without a second thought. This is a bad idea. Not only is there the possibility of identity theft (a subject for another article), but many of those offers contain no fee balance transfers where you can save not only on the balance transfer but on the interest as well. What is a Balance Transfer? A “balance transfer” is where one credit card company makes a payment on your behalf [...]