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Low interest credit cards are often at the top of everyone’s list when looking for a credit card. This is particularly true if you plan to carry a balance on your credit card for a period of time. But, how can you find the best low interest rate credit cards available? With a few easy steps, you will be able to find them without a problem.

Mailings

Some low interest rate credit cards send out mailings advertising their great rates. These mailings can be a good start in your search of the best cheap credit cards. Make sure to read the fine print, however, because many of these low interest credit cards are really only low interest for an introductory period, then the rates skyrocket. Read the information thoroughly to determine if the card will remain low or not.

Commercials

Radio and television commercials are also a source of information about low interest credit cards. Again, it is worth looking into these cards because you might be able to find a great deal. But, before applying, go to the lender’s website and learn as much about the credit card as possible. You might find hidden fees or expenses that make the card one you should avoid.

Word of Mouth

Many people don’t think to simply ask their friends and family if they have a low interest credit card. Asking them if they have a great credit card is not too personal, it is not as if you are asking them what their line of credit is or how much debt the are carrying on the card. People who have found a low interest rate credit card are often more than willing to brag about the great rate they found. Ask your friend to give you the name of the lender and the type of card he or she has. The type of card is important because most lenders have several different cards with varying interest rates, reward programs, and other benefits. You can even ask your friend for the 1-800 customer service number listed on the back of the card. You can call the number and speak to a representative to learn more and to learn how to apply for the card.

The Internet

Perhaps the best and easiest way to find low interest credit cards is to consult the Internet. There are number of websites on the Internet that offer information about a variety of credit cards. With most of these websites, the credit cards are divided into different categories. You can click on the category for low interest rate credit cards. After doing so, many credit cards with low interest rates will be listed. The beauty of using one of these sites is that they provide you with thorough, unbiased information about multiple cards. In this way, you can compare the interest rates of several credit cards, learn about introductory rates and long-term rates, find how the finance charges are determined, and research other benefits associated with the card.

Keep in mind, low interest credit cards do not necessarily need to be cheap credit cards. In other words, you shouldn’t have to sacrifice quality in a credit card for a low interest rate. When at one of the credit card comparison Internet sites, be sure to look at the other benefits provided by the card. Once you have narrowed your choices down to the cards with the lowest interest rates, compare the benefits offered by the card (such as travel insurance, purchase protection, fraud protection, and extended warranty services) and choose the one that gives you the most perks at the lowest rate.

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The most convenient and popular way to apply for a credit card now is online credit card application. You can go online and type in the search terms you want, for instance low APR credit card, and receive a lengthy listing of all the credit card offers available from a wide variety of lenders. If a low apr credit card is what you’re looking for, start with the internet.

How to apply

When you begin your search, think of the things that are most important to you about your credit card. Do you want low interest? Do you want an introductory interest-free period? Do you want a low APR credit card for your personal use or for your business? Would you like to have a reward program for airline miles, merchandise, or gasoline? How is your credit? Do you need a card after you have had a bad credit history?

Once you have determined your criteria for a credit card, type in your search terms and visit one of the countless sites that the search pull up. Such as, www.select-cards-today.com
You will find an exhaustive list of companies offering you credit if you meet their qualifications, which usually include a credit check and proof of income along with references.

Spend some time reading the details of each offer. Think about which credit card best meets your needs. Pull out your list of answers to the questions above and look for a card that is perfect for you. At www.select-cards-today.com you will find one. Don’t settle for an offer that only meets some of your criteria.

Fill out the online credit card application and submit any information that the company requires. Be sure to read the fine print. Most forms have the details of limitations or increasing rates in fine print at the bottom of the form. However, with an online credit card application, you may have to manually click a link to view these restrictions. It is very important that you take the time to do this. Not reading the restrictions of a card agreement can get you into a lot of trouble down the line if you don’t meet the demands of the agreement. Remember that this is a legal document, giving your approval for the company to check your credit.

You may want to print out the fine print information as well as a copy of the online credit card application before you submit it. Keeping these types of records can protect you later if any mishandling of your application occurs.

Once the company validates and processes your application, you will receive a packet of information in the mail including disclosure papers. If you printed out the fine print when you filled out your application, which we recommend that you do, compare the disclosure papers you get in the mail with the ones you printed out from the website. If everything matches, fill out the information on the new forms and submit them.

Each company varies as to the time it takes for you to get your credit card once you complete the application process. The usual amount is ten days. If you don’t hear anything in the specified time limit, contact the company that you applied with immediately.

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An investigation organized by Egg says consumers have greatly underestimated the amount that credit cards are used throughout the United Kingdom, what this means is consumers are spending a lot more than they think. The investigation revealed that when consumers thought they had spent was £236billion was in fact £437 billion, some difference!

How come there is such a big difference?

Well most of us usually pay for everything with the plastic card and find it hard to keep track of what we spend.

Most people have more than one credit card and a lot of them transfer their balances from time to time to get the best interest rate, so when you are working with two or more credit cards it’s easy to miscalculate how much you’re spending, and with so many different payment options for you to choose from you can see how there can be such a difference in what we spend, over £200billion! scary or what?

Another question you have to ask is, if we do not know what is in our accounts how do we know we are not getting ripped off?

Six out of ten consumers didn’t know how much was in their accounts so money could be taken out and they would have no idea. Mind you some would say (not me you understand) if you don’t keep track of your money you deserve to have it pinched.

The British Bankers Association revealed that by the end of September, credit cards sales had fallen for the last two months indicating that consumers are being careful, but with Christmas around the corner I am sure the credit card sales will be up and we will have another bumper spending spree with the plastic cards.

So the question was, are we underestimating what we are spending? well the facts definitely say yes!

So what should we do about it well keep a tighter grip on your accounts, double check what’s coming in and out and make sure everything balances at the end of the month.

good luck!

Some important contacts:

http://www.bba.org.uk
http://www.cccs.co.uk

Peter Kenny has been writing financial articles for the last five years and offers great advice on credit cards and loans more information can be found at creditcards-gb and moneywize.

What FACTA means is that if you, as an individual, lose the information on anyone you have ever hired; or, for any business in the United States of America that collects any personal information on people, if the information should be lost due to not destroying the information properly, then two things can happen. First, there are federal fines of up to $2,500.00, and state fines up to $1,000, per employee, per incident. Second, the business is liable for any damages the individual suffers as the result of a breach of information.

Take an example that the company loses information due to negligent destruction (i.e. you don’t own a shredder and throw the information into the dumpster). Nothing in FACTA really determines what the employee has to do to prove “negligent destruction” on the part of the employer, so an employee could simply state that the employer had lost the information, and even if the employer had burned the information into ashes, it would be up to the employer to show that the information had not gotten out due to his or her company’s negligence.

Business Week says that the average damages for Identity Theft victims are $92,000.00 and up per person. Using this statistic, if you have 10 employees lose their identities, then on average, your liability is $920,000.00. Statistically, you are responsible for an average of 75 bad checks and 8 credit cards per employee. The average Identity Theft victim also spends 600 hours getting their credit restored, which means that you will have 600 hours per employee, so potentially 6,000 hours for 10 employees, which you will be responsible for paying employees who aren’t even at work, because they have taken time off to deal with the Identity Theft.

According to John Gardner, co-author of Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneurial Soul, “The damages are devastating to any business.”

There are many problems related to people’s identities that don’t deal with credit issues. Contrary to popular belief, only 26% of identity theft issues relate to credit issues. The other 74% of the issues, according to Gardner, are related to the following four areas:

Someone stealing your DMV record. Example: An identity thief wants to drive under your employee’s name instead of theirs. This will help the Identity Thief to not get caught in cases of DUI, unpaid speeding tickets, etc. Your employee is then blamed for their driving record.

Someone stealing your MIB record. This is your Medical Information Bureau Record. Example: An Identity Thief wants to have an AIDS test done in your employee’s name, rather than theirs, or have their prescriptions filled using your employee’s Medicaid or Medicare benefits

Someone stealing your character identity to commit a crime in your name. Imagine this - your future employee comes to your child care facility, and everything sounds good about this candidate. However, you run a criminal background check, and find out that they have three arrests for child pornography and one for drug trafficking to minors. You bring the record to their attention, and they insist it’s not them.

Your employment record. Example: An Identity Thief wants to earn income using your employee’s social security number, but let your employee pay taxes on the money they earn.

As a result of this, Gardner says that “Businesses need to offer 24 hour per day, 7 day per week access to attorneys….I think that the danger is so large to any business, that they may want to [pay for] some of the cost of this, to encourage the employees to get the benefit…If a business does not understand that they need the help, they are living in a dream world.”

Employers should also offer some sort of Identity Theft protection, and ongoing background monitoring. This can be offered as a voluntary benefit which has no real cost to the employer, as a fringe benefit paid by the employer, or can be a combination of both. When an identity thief uses your employee’s information, (for example an identity thief takes the employee’s current address, and uses it as their previous address when they apply for a mortgage,) ongoing background monitoring will notify your employee when the identity theft happens.

Most people don’t find out that they have become victims until that Identity Thief, who has used your employee’s credit to finance their mortgage, stops paying bills, is picked up for a crime, or doesn’t pay taxes. Ongoing monitoring provides an early warning system, so that your employee will be able to call an expert who can correct the problem when it takes place. This will save your employee’s time, and limit the losses your employee will incur as a result of the breach of their information. This will also save you the costs associated with the frustration and lack of ability to pay attention as work.

Even if your employees don’t elect to have the benefits of legal services and identity theft protection, having a mandatory meeting where employees hear that you have made this coverage available to them will provide an affirmative defense, should an employee ever accuse you, as the employer, of having lost their personal information.

Under FACTA, access to an attorney and credit restoration, are benefits that employers need to offer. Ongoing background monitoring will mitigate damages that the employee can experience because the early warning system will be in place to handle the issues. Access to an attorney and credit restoration will drastically reduce the time the employee spends away from work dealing with the issues surrounding identity theft and other personal legal problems.

Failure on the part of an employer to offer this benefit leaves a company exposed to thousands (and even millions) of dollars in potential damages, and leaves employees subject to the time, frustration, and headaches associated with being a victim of Identity Theft.

Jonathan Kraft is a benefits consultant who specializes in educating people about how they can get affordable access to the legal system. Because of his work in the field of electronic Identity Theft, he has come to be known as Colorado’s Foremost Expert on Computer Related Identity Theft. To schedule a time for Mr. Kraft’s company to present Identity Theft and Legal Service protection to your employees, please contact him at (877) 825-7119. You can also find out more on the web at http://www.strive4impact.com/group

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What I want to know is why do they use them. I mean is it something you only need if you are going to be competing or if it is something I should look into just to keep in shape.

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Avoiding complications in credit repair is almost important as getting out of debt. When we have bills that were neglected simply because we didn’t have the money to pay the bills, or else we purchased items instead of paying the bills, we are in debt. If you are considering a Home Equity Loan to get out of your current mortgage…DON”T. Why?

Simply because most Home Equity Loans get you deeper in debt and once you are obligated you will find the problem is more complicated than we you applied for the loan. Lenders often target home owners with financial difficulties offering them high interest rates and making them believe it is a solution for debt relief. In most cases, this is where foreclosures come in, or selling homes come into place.

The solution is only an option to get you in debt deeper. One solution then is for homeowners to consider the Reverse Mortgage Loans. This type of loan is often as equity against your home, belongings, and so on. The loan offers a ‘cash advance’ solution and requires that the owner does not pay on the mortgage until the end of the mortgage term or when the home is sold.

Most lenders provide a lump sum advance, a line of credit, or else a monthly installment to the home owners. Some lenders even offer a combination to the homeowners. This is certainly a good solution for repairing your credit, and building your credit to a new future. The downside is that Reverse Home Mortgage Loans often are more suitable for the older generation of people that have built equity over the years in their homes.

Another disadvantage is that almost all home loans require upfront payments, such as title, insurance, application fees, origination fees, interest and so on. Therefore, it pays to ask questions and shop around before taking out another loan to repair or build your credit. Fannie Mae Home Keeper Mortgage Programs are one of the many that offer a Reverse Home Mortgage Loan.

Another option for paying off your debts and repairing your credit is to borrow the money from family members or friends. If you have someone that trusts you enough to loan you the money to get out of debt, it is often better than getting a loan.

There are several options or questions you must consider before asking family members or friends to loan you the money to build or repair your credit. One of those questions should be the obvious. Can these people afford to lend me the money to get out of debt? Are these people kind enough to loan you money without putting high demands on you.

Of course there may be interest involved, but remember they are loaning you money they could be spending on their own bills. Is it possible that you can repay the loan without complicating your situation further? Can I repay these people that loan me the money to free myself of one debt?

How long do I have to repay the loan? Make sure there are no extra complications before asking friends or family for money to help get you out of debt. One of the best solutions for finding a way to repair your credit is searching the options to make the money yourself. If you have a mortgage payment and struggling each month to make ends meet, you might want to sell your home.

Many homeowners go for this option simply because they make more money in the long run. Once they sell their home they are often able to repay their mortgage loan and then take out a loan for another mortgage more affordable. If you decide to sell your home to repair your credit and get out of debt, be sure that you look around for the best possible solutions in order to prevent further complications.

Make sure you know how much is owed on your home before you set a price for resell. If there are any repairs that are minor or major, try to repair them first before selling. If you can’t afford to repair the home, try to do minimal repair so that you can up the price of the home you are selling.

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When choosing a credit card, the interest rate should be the first thing to consider. Low interest rates only mean one thing: more savings! The bigger the balance of the account, the bigger sum of money will be saved. As more money gets saved, more money gets stored and more interests will roll in the bank account.

Other credit cards companies have reasonable interest rates and offers more like giving the percentage of money back. The more money spent on credit, more money will be returned to the card’s user. Most credit cards use 5% on special purchases and 1% on regular purchases.

Some banks give “Reward Points.” These “Reward Points” accumulate as the credit card is used and it may be exchanged for certain items catalogued by the bank. Points may be exchanged for microwaves, cell phones, televisions and the like. This is yet another great feature to be considered when looking for a card.

A number of major banks offer low interest rates. A few major banks would be: Citibank, American express and JP Morgan Chase. These banks are known to give 0% introductory APR (Annual Percentage Rate) for 12 months. Most of these cards offer no annual rates.

Here are some credit cards with low interest rates:

Citi Dividend Platinum Select Card (Citibank):
-it features 0% APR (Annual Percentage Rate) for 12 months
-it rewards the user. The more this card is used, the bigger the rewards.
-earn 5% return from expenses in supermarkets, drug stores and gas stations.
-earn 1% return from other expenses.

Citi Premier Pass Card (Citibank):
-0% introductory APR.
-get points by flying. Every mile gets you a point.

American Express Blue Card (American Express):
-3.99% fixed interest rate.
-0% introductory APR for 15 months.

Chase Cash Plus Visa (JP Morgan Chase):
-0% interest rate for 12 months.
-has other cash back promos.

Chase Flexible Rewards Platinum Visa Card (JP Morgan Chase):
-0% introductory APR for 12 months.
-a dollar spent equals a point.
-no annual fee.

Pulaski Bank Visa Master Card:
-0% on balance transfers for 5 months
-6.99% fixed rate
-$35 annual fee

Discover Card:
-0% APR for the first 10 months.
-$0 annual fee.
-9.99% fixed interest rate.

These cards have the lowest interest rates in the credit card market today. These cards do not only offer low rates, but they also give certain rewards for the frequent users of the card.

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Over time, it happens to every pokern player-you get a reputation. Eventually, people get familiar with your style and tendencies. That’s not necessarily a bad thing-in fact, if you know how others think of you, then you can play off of that image and turn their presuppositions against them.

The first step to this is to cultivate your poker image. After your first few games of poker, you should be able to learn your individual playing style, and it will usually fall into the “tight” or “loose” side of things.

It’s generally thought of as a good idea to cultivate a tight image at the poker en ligne table because if players think that you’re tight, the assumption is that you won’t act unless you’ve got the winning hand. This enables you to bluff effectively, but when you do, be cautious. When you do bluff, try to do so in situations where you don’t have to show your hand, because once people see that you do bluff, your cover is gone for good.

A lot of players tend to cultivate a loose image, betting on way too many hands and playing cards that most people would be happy to toss away. This is effective for just the opposite reason-when you’re thought of as a loose player, it’s assumed that you’re bluffing, so players are more likely to go in with you when you do have a good hand.

Take the time to figure out how others see you at the poker table, and you’ll be able to use their assumptions to your advantage.

If you’re like the average person, let me warn you ahead of time about what I’m going to reveal in the next few paragraphs. You may be angry after you finish reading this article about how you’ve been misled in the use of credit card debt.

The American economy is designed to make you work yourself to the point of exhaustion, only to build wealth for those very same companies you work yourself to death for - not for YOU!

The most eye-opening example of this is with consumer debt. For example, if you purchase your home with a conventional mortgage, you’ll pay about THREE TIMES the amount over the life of the loan. Think about it this way. It’s like taking your monthly mortgage payment and tripling it, then sending it off to the bank.

This is how much you will eventually pay back for the privilege of using their money. So you can see how two-thirds of the total amount you’ll pay your mortgage company is primarily INTEREST payments. Interest is pure profit for the mortgage companies and a detriment to your financial well-being.

Ask yourself a serious question - does the Bank deserve to get so much of your hard earned money? Do you think that they are doing such an outstanding job that they should be compensated so well?

This simply means that when you come home from a hard day at work, you’ve just contributed to your bank or mortgage company’s bottom line - not yours. THIS IS YOUR MONEY! I’m sure you’ve work hard to earn it. You’ll most definitely have to pay taxes on it.

For instance, if you think your mortgage payments are out of control –consider credit card debt. If you have an average payment of $5,000 in debt, it will take you over 60 years to pay that debt in full if you make the minimum payments.

I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t want to be retired and still making payments on credit cards I charged up in my twenties.

But you know the story, and you’ve probably heard it a million times — the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It’s certainly not fair and I’ll give you an easy way to get out of debt without loans or debt consolidation programs and more importantly, stay out of debt.

When you know how to invest the money you’re currently spending on mortgage payments, car loans, credit card debt and any other type of monthly installment debt, you’ll be pleasantly surprised at how quickly you can become debt-free.

Make a commitment to yourself to find at least 10% of your monthly take home pay to help you get out of debt. Look for ways to cut costs. Go over your cable bill, your cell phone plans, see if it still makes sense to keep your home phone, revisit insurance policies, etc. and see where you can redirect money to help you get out of your debt situation.

Now go and gather up your credit card bills, automobile loans, and any other installment loans you have and total them up. Keep in mind there’s a difference between debt and expenses. Expenses are things like utilities, foods and taxes.

After you’ve come to grand total, look at the monthly payments for each debt. Select the monthly payment that is the smallest amount. Now, you’ll add the money you’ve “found” to help you pay down this debt to zero. Once this debt is paid in full, take the money you were paying on this debt, add it to your second debt, plus the extra money you found and continue to payoff your debt in this manner.

It won’t happen overnight, but you didn’t get into debt overnight either. Consistency is the name of this game. By faithfully following this method, it will take the average person between 5-7 years to get completely out of debt.

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