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Can You Qualify For Unsecured Home Improvement Loans?

By Expert Author: Devora Witts Platinum Expert Author
View Summary | Submitted: 2008-05-20 | Word Count: 541 words | Views: 19 view(s)
Devora Witts
If you want to make home improvements and you are not the owner or the property, if there is not any equity left on your home or if you simply do not want to use your home as collateral, the only option for financing home improvements are Unsecured Home Improvement Loans. But, what are the requirements for approval?

Secured home improvement loans protect the lender by guaranteeing payment of the money owed with the very same property that will be improved. If you have sufficient equity on your home there is nothing easier than getting approved for such a loan regardless of your credit situation.

Unsecured home improvement loans, on the other side have more requirements because they lack that guarantee. The lenders instead of focusing on the property’s value will focus on your personal credit and financial situation in order to decide whether to approve you for a loan or not. Thus, Unsecured Home Improvement Loans can be considered to be personal unsecured loans.

Requirements

The main requirement for loan approval is your credit score. Even though a bad credit score will not determine a loan decline right away, it will actually affect the approval conditions and the terms of the loan. For starters, if you have bad credit, you will not be able to request high loan amounts or long repayment programs. The higher risk implied in loan transactions with bad credit applicants scares lenders away. Thus, only limited amounts and small repayment schedules can be obtained with bad credit.

Due to the nature of these loans, only the near-past credit history is significant (unless of course there is a bankruptcy on your credit report). A clean near-past credit history should not have any missed payments, late payments or other delinquencies. A Three or four months of uninterrupted timely payments of bills and loan installments is necessary for approval in most cases.

The Loan

Unsecured Home Improvement Loans can be used for undertaking any home improvement you can think of. Those which raise the property’s value are judged with special consideration by lenders if the property belongs to the applicant. However, as stated above, unsecured home improvement loans focus on the person of the applicant and not on the property itself.

The interest rate charged for Unsecured Home Improvement Loans is slightly higher than that of secured home improvement loans (which are home equity loans) but considerably lower than the interest rate charged for pay day loans or credit cards. The interest rate charged is similar to other unsecured personal loans. Of course, this applies only to home improvement loans granted to people with good or very good credit. Those applicants with a bad credit score may have to face a higher interest rate due to the higher risk involved in the transaction. In any case, it will always be lower than cash advance or pay day loans and credit cards.

As regards to loan amount and loan length, the loan terms are variable and can be tailored to your needs. However, this flexibility will also depend on your credit and on your income. If you can afford high payments you can request shorter repayment programs and higher loan amounts. Otherwise you will have to cope with longer loans and smaller amounts.

About the Author/Author Bio

Devora Witts is a certified loan consultant with several years of experience in the credit area who instructs people regarding credit recovery and approval for personal loans, home loans, consolidation loans, car loans, student loans, unsecured loans and many other types of loans. If you want to understand Mortgage Loans and Home Owner Loans thoroughly you can visit her site http://www.badcreditloanservices.com

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