Meghan Alard

Meghan Alard is a guest contributor for Debt.com. She’s been a staff writer for ten years at one of the nation’s largest and oldest nonprofit credit counseling services—Consolidated Credit. She’s a PFE-certified debt management professional, specializing in content that helps consumers manage debt, improve their credit, budget, and save for long-term goals.

Your 5 Step Guide To Getting Debt Relief Fast

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Your 5 Step Guide To Getting Debt Relief Fast

Carrying balances on multiple credit cards is stressful and expensive, and paying them off quickly can be a challenge. That’s especially true if you are living paycheck-to-paycheck or dealing with other debts simultaneously, like student loans. But it is possible to get debt relief even with those challenges. This 5 Step guide can help you develop a plan to pay off your debt or identify the best debt relief option when a traditional payoff plan just won’t cut it. Step 1: Stop making it so difficult to get … Read more

The Secret to Buying a House with Bad Credit

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The Secret To Buying A House With Bad Credit

You might think that having a credit score in the 500s would keep you from buying a home. But that isn’t always the case. Depending on your circumstances, you may have lending options that make it possible to overcome that bad credit barrier when buying a home. This guide will teach you how to buy a house with bad credit, and where to go to find financing that will work for you. What Credit Score is Needed to Buy a Home? The minimum credit score you need to … Read more