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How Does Credit History Affect Loans?

April 10th, 2008

Credit history plays a vital role in availing any kind of loan at the best rates. So, if you have a good credit history, you can get any loan like home loan, car loan etc with out any hassles and at the lower rates of interest. Now, the opposite is also true. With a bad credit history, you can definitely get a bad credit car finance and bad credit home loan. Yes, but with higher rates of interest.

What exactly is the credit history? Credit history actually means credit standing. So, whenever you have any credit transaction, your details get forwarded to the credit bureau. When you make the timely payments of that loan amount or that credit, you get the score as positive. But, in case of any defaults, you get the negative marking.

Your credit card transactions, loan transactions etc are looked into while calculating the credit score. A good credit score makes easy way for you for future transactions. However, these days’ even people with adverse credit history get the chance to improve it.

The principle is that adverse credit history makes you pay more interest and good credit history makes you pay less interests in case of loan. This is because when you have a negative credit history, the lender is at a higher risk and so he charges you more interest. And with good credit history, your creditworthiness is relied upon.

So, while availing a car loans, the above factors will be considered.

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