If you must be l…
…ate on a payment, don’t let it be your mortgage. Next, if you must choose which credit payments to be late on, it is best to have the fewest number of late payments. So, it would be better to be late on a $200 credit card payment than late on two credit card payments totaling $200, such as a $120 payment and a $80 payment.
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