{"id":2222,"date":"2016-06-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.simplifimoney.com\/blog\/how-handle-debt\/"},"modified":"2022-10-21T09:37:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T16:37:46","slug":"how-handle-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quicken.com\/blog\/how-handle-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Handle Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How much debt is too much? It depends. That&#8217;s not the answer you wanted, perhaps, but it&#8217;s the only sensible one: It depends on how easily you can repay the money and what you borrowed it for in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The stories below will help you realize whether you&#8217;ve taken on too much debt and, if so, how to get it under control. If you&#8217;re too far in over your head, we also explain the basics of bankruptcy\u2014which always should be a last resort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"\/warning-signs-too-much-debt\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Warning Signs of Too Much Debt.<\/a> You&#8217;re headed for trouble if you pick up these distress signals.<\/li><li><a href=\"\/how-get-out-debt\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How to Get Out of Debt.<\/a> There are several steps you can take to ensure your credit rating isn&#8217;t ruined.<\/li><li><a href=\"\/bankruptcy-last-resort\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bankruptcy: The Last Resort. <\/a>The law doesn&#8217;t make it easy, and it&#8217;s not something you should tackle on your own.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much debt is too much? It depends. That&#8217;s not the answer you wanted, perhaps, but it&#8217;s the only sensible one: It depends on how easily you can repay the money and what you borrowed it for in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"How to Handle Debt | Quicken","_seopress_titles_desc":"How much debt is too much? It depends. That&#039;s not the answer you wanted, perhaps, but it&#039;s the only sensible one: It depends on how easily you can repay the money and what you borrowed it for in the first place. The stories below will help you realize whether you&#039;ve taken on too much debt and, if so, how to get it under control. If you&#039;re too far in over your head, we also explain the basics of bankruptcy\u2014which always should be a last resort.","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debt"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quicken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quicken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quicken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quicken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quicken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.quicken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4741,"href":"https:\/\/www.quicken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions\/4741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quicken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quicken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quicken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}