RECOVERING FROM BANKRUPTCY

In highly industrialized and first world nations, the act of filing bankruptcy forfeits financing leverages for your business interest. Under normal circumstances, you cannot apply for business loans, automobile loans or housing loans. It may be very difficult for you to get a credit card or have your children avail of a school loan in private schools. The options may be grim and hopeless but you have to survive. Let me give you some practical tips on how to regain financial freedom in the face bankruptcy:

1. Don’t file bankruptcy – Bankruptcy is an option comparable to defeat which is also an option. When faced with the dilemma of filing bankruptcy and securing your finances, I would strongly urge you to reconsider. The legal admission of bankruptcy spares the finance sector from tedious credit investigations for the release of loans or credit. The remunerations released are just but a bonus for conceding. But if you already did file, here are some useful tips for you.

2.    Loan from relatives – it is a common knowledge that Financing with bad credit history is close to impossible when loaning to a bank but with relatives it’s another story. Don’t loan for loaning sake, come up with your recovery business plan in detail and show them how you can recover through the new business venture and pay them with interest. This generally called a “character loan”, loaning without collateral or like a personal loan no credit check. Almost all relatives when able are willing to help out.

3.  Get a job - Majority of filers will choose this option however, this is the longest road to financial recovery. Getting a job will get you a steady salary where you can save and accumulate funds to start your business someday. Age might be a limitation to work.

4.  Partner with an investor – Bring your business idea to an able and interested investor, sell your idea and agree for an industrial partnership. Industrial partners are working partners that operates the business but does not put up financial capital. Proceeds are split equally between partners or more is given to the financing partner.

Bankruptcy is just a state of mind and apprehension. “Success is not the absence of failures; it is the persistence that keeps you up no matter how frequent you fall”.