You are just shifting the debt. You have to be disciplined enough to stop using those credit cards and pay off the signature loan first. All too often people run the credit cards back up. Then they have the big loan payment and the credit cards.

The new installment loan might cause your credit score to initially drop — new credit weighs against you. But after you make at least 6 months of installment payments, the loan will start counting positively.

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