Braden Mathews, Author December 19, 2019
- What is a Credit Builder Loan?
- How do Credit Builder Loans Work?
- Will a Credit Builder Loan Work for Me?
- Tips?
When you get a Credit Builder Loan from a lending institution, they do not give you the money from the loan upfront. The lending institution will take the money and put it in an account that you will not have access to until the end of the term of the loan. You will make monthly payments to the loan using your own money. You will end up paying interest on the loan so you will pay more than you will get back at the end. At the end of the loan, when you finish paying everything back, you will then get the original loan amount, plus interest. 
Let’s do an exercise. Say you get a $1,000, 12-month loan with 10% from Credit Union.
Your monthly payment will be $87.92. $87.92 x 12 months = $1,055.04. You will end up paying $1,055.04 over the year-long life of the loan, and at the end of the loan, you get $1,000, assuming no interest. Assuming the original $1,000 is invested with no interest (which isn’t likely), you will end up paying $55.04 in interest over the life of the loan. Paying $55 seems like a very small fee to get into the credit world. We all need it, might as well start off on the right foot!
Essentially what this says to me is you are paying to improve your credit. One of the things you can do to minimize your cost is to make sure that the account the lending institution puts the money in is interest-bearing. The interest on these accounts can be as little as 0.01% or as high as 1.90%, so try to make sure it is as high as possible.
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