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Debt is a major factor in your credit score.  If you have too much of it (or none at all) or if you have trouble repaying your debts on time, your credit score will be affected negatively.  Keeping your debts reasonable and current, on the other hand, will do more than almost anything else to improve your credit score.  The next few post will contain tips that can ensure that your debts actually help you boost your credit score.

Having many loans and the corresponding debt is one of the biggest reasons leading to poor credit ratings.  Essentially, the larger your debts, the worse your credit rating and the more likely that you’ll find yourself with large monthly payments that are difficult to repay. 

Consolidating your loans means that you take out one large loan to repay all your creditors so that you only have one large loan to repay.  While the overall amount of the loan does not change - if you owed $50 000 to five different lenders, you will still owe $50 000 but to only one lender - but the interest rates and corresponding monthly payments are usually quite smaller and this can help meeting your debt payments much easier. 

Debt consolidation can be an especially good idea if you have lots of high-interest debt and lots of bills that are hard to keep track of. One smaller monthly payment will be easier to remember and will help make bill time less painful.

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