We are imperfect beings in a very imperfect world, and the one thing we can count on is that things will go wrong, and that each and every one of us will have problems. Financial problems are one of such common problems. If, in the past, you have made late (or missed) payments on a loan, credit or store card, or have had other problems such as business liquidation, you may have been marked as having bad credit. A myth pervades our society that individuals who developed bad credit will never again obtain a loan. However, the truth is even with the worst credit, even one day after bankruptcy, an individual with bad credit may still obtain a loan. Such loans are termed as bad credit loans.

Bad credit loans are just like any other conventional loan with the only difference that it is available to people with bad credit history. Bad credit loans can be put to any use be it to finance your dream vacation, to buy a luxurious car, to make improvements at home, to start a new business or finance the existing one, to consolidate all your existing debts into a single loan or simply to repair your credit score.

Both secured and unsecured options are available for bad credit loans. Secured bad credit loans are the loans that attach a clause of collateral with it. This loan provides borrowers with an opportunity to make use of the equity stored in their property. The advantage with secured bad credit loan is they tend to cover up the bad credit flaw, as it provides security to the lender in the form of collateral and hence reduce the risk borne by the lender and therefore, borrower can get bad credit loan at lower interest rates. Unsecured bad credit loans do not required putting any security against the loan.

Significant feature of unsecured loans for bad credit is that it gets approved very quickly, as it does not involve the task of valuation of equity value of the borrower's property.

The principal contention of the borrowers is the excessively high rate of interest that they have to shell out for bad credit loans but in order to nullify the effect of higher rate of interests, terms on which loans are offered to borrowers are fairly lenient than for the bad credit borrowers.