A colleague of yours recently went for a secured personal loan, and the rate of interest he was promised on the loan had you amazed. How come he was able to get such a competitive rate when you have to bear an expensive rate of interest? Our recipe of dealing with such situations is to be calm and reconsider what was missing in your case.
Many a times, the most unnoticed change in circumstances is related to the credit history. Are we asking you to be conscious of the changed circumstances and take the expensive interest rate as granted? No! We are just asking you to not compare with your colleague who may have a good credit history to reckon with. A person with bad credit history, as we will learn later on in the article, implies lesser credibility. Therefore, lenders are only countering themselves against the risk of non-repayment. So you can expect a rate of interest, which is higher than the rate normally promised on bad credit secured personal loans.
However, if your colleague too had a bad credit and in spite of that, there were differences in rates then it is a matter of concern. The first step in the diagnosis will be to check which lender advanced the...