Let me give you some unsolicited advice. If you have bad credit, chances are that you are not so good at handling credit yet. Perhaps the best thing to do is to try to live within your financial means, until your credit heals.
By then, you should be ready to get back into credit, responsibly. This would also help you financially since you wouldn't have to absorb the very high interest rates that would often accompany high risk credit.
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