How To Use Credit Cards While Traveling

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Credit cards can be an excellent tool when used responsibly. One example of this is when you are traveling for either business or pleasure. It is important in this rocky economy to understand how to manage your finances, including your credit in a way that will help you save money and improve your financial stability. [...]

Sample Letter to Close Your Credit Card Account

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Many people find themselves in situations where they need to do some financial ‘house cleaning’ and want to close some of their credit card accounts in order to make things a little simpler.  This can be a good idea, but you need to go about it carefully. To begin with, you should not close a [...]

Get Help Negotiating a Lower Interest Rate – Review of Negotiatemyrate.com

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NegotiateMyRate.com is an excellent tool from the DIY debt reduction site Debtgoal.com that helps you negotiate for a lower interest rate on your credit card.  It’s an interactive tool consisting of the largest credit card companies and and average reduction percentage that actual customers have negotiated with their respective card companies. First of all, the [...]

Closing Credit Card Accounts

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There is no denying the fact that consumers are quite adept at opening credit card accounts. In fact, of the American households that have credit card debt, the average balance carried on these cards is over $15,000. Therefore it is safe to say there is no difficulty in opening and using credit cards, however not [...]

Sample Letter: How To Ask for A Lower Interest Rate

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With the recent incidents of credit card companies raising interest rates, even on the accounts of excellent customers, many consumers have begun to fight back and are working to get a reduction. Getting a reduction on your credit card interest is not impossible, provided you are a good customer, you pay on time all the [...]