Sunday, January 21, 2024

MoneyWalk 234 Avoid Having Assets Taken

This program will help you undo financial bondage. 

Cosigning is making an agreement with a creditor to pay debts taken out by someone else. Such agreements require you to pay the monthly loan payments when the person becomes delinquent on the loan payment (regardless of whether he is unable to pay or simply decides not to be honorable). Allowing someone to use your credit card technically puts you in the same situation because your contract with the credit card company requires you to pay all charges authorized on the card.

A person’s request for you to cosign to cover his debt may not look like a bad thing when the appeal is being made. They often have a lot of emotional appeal behind them because the person needs help overcoming financial obstacles. Yet, it’ll cause you immense emotional pain, heartache, and financial turmoil when they don’t make the monthly payments or pay off the debts as contracted and expected.

It's generally an irresponsible action to cosign for someone given that the vast majority of these situations result in the other party not paying as agreed and thus forcing collectors to come after cosigners. Also, most cosigners don’t have enough income or assets to cover the debt, once the lender comes after them. It negatively affects well-being and leaves cosigners in a tumultuous financial and relational state. Make no mistake, it doesn’t work any better among family members and close friend and the fallout promotes unforgiveness, long-term ill feelings, and separation.

Respect that the financial institution doesn’t consider the requester’s personal financial situation healthy enough to sign for his own debt, and that these institutions are expert at judging the likelihood of repayment by people with particular financial profiles. Then, just say NO! Otherwise, a significant amount of your income and assets will soon be spent paying off debt taken out by other people. Your credit will likely get wrecked, no matter how much income you bring in, because you are persuaded to cosign for irresponsible and untrustworthy people.

Pray and watch those that labor among you knowing that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. In so doing, many have learned bad habits in the financial arena of their lives. Then, choose not to repeat their mistakes and not help them continue to make such mistakes. The best way to help ones you can help is to use available cash, at an amount that won’t impoverish your family, when you determine a true need exists and believe you’re supposed to help. Cosigning is not the solution to fixing other people’s poverty, need, and financial troubles. Scriptural principle says avoid it, so by all means do so knowing it is not the avenue of blessing for you, your family, or the person asking.

Proverbs 11:15, 17:18, 20:16, Romans 13:8, Ephesians 5:15-17

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