Top Four Considerations for Unsecured Personal Loans

by: Anthony Griswold


Unsecured personal loans is money from a bank where you don't have to secure an asset or something that you own to get the money. These are very difficult types of loans to get because you are not asking for a loan for a car, boat, home, or something that is worth money. When the loan is for an asset the bank is more likely to give the money because there is an asset they can repossess and resell if you do not pay the loan. An unsecured loan may be for taking a vacation somewhere or for some type of intangible item the bank will not be able to take from you. This takes a lot of trust from a lender in order to get money like this.

The first thing a lender is going to consider is your credit score. Bad credit shows banks you don't pay off your debts. This will immediately show a bank that you are not going to pay them back. You should first clean up your credit before you ask for unsecured personal loans.

When you ask for unsecured personal loans and you are working on cleaning up your credit you better be cleaning it up on your own. Never go to a credit counselor and sign a contract. A bank will immediately turn you away. Although it looks good you are cleaning up your credit it looks to a bank that because you had to have a company do it for you that you are not capable of managing money.

When you ask lenders for unsecured personal loans it is a good idea to already have money in the bank. It looks good to a bank if your credit is good and you have money in the bank. Money in the bank shows a lender you know how to manage your money and you are capable of saving. You are also capable of making the monthly payments to pay the money back because there is several months of reserves to pay it back.

A down payment is the best way to get an unsecured personal loan. If your goal is to get or do something that costs 10k you might have 2k down payment. This looks good to the lender that you have some money to put toward the unsecured personal loans and they know you are serious. If you are willing to put forward a chunk of your money they are more willing to give you a loan.

Unsecured personal loans are the most difficult types of loans to get from lenders. That is because you are asking for money on or for something the bank cannot take away and resell. This is the riskiest type of loan from a lender.