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hey guys it's Sebastian from ask sebby and today we are going to look at everything that you wanted to know about balance transfer cards in 2020 one big favor before we dive into all of this though is to give this a thumbs up it really does help with that YouTube's algorithm and it for someone who wants to learn about how to use different financial products to your advantage consider subscribing to the channel and turning on that Bell icon for notifications in this video we're going to talk about the basics so everything that you need to know we'll talk about some other tactics to maximize your odds of getting approved and then at the ends we'll also talk about the cards I would recommend right now given what's going on well that out of the way we are going to look at what bounce transfer cards are so the core premise of the card is that you're going to get approved for it and you're going to have a credit limit that you can either transfer out or do something else with and you're going to pay 0% for a certain period so this sounds really good on the surface but there are going to be some strings attached that we'll talk about in a second depending on the card there's going to typically be three different ways you can use it you can either transfer that balance out into your bank account which typically has a fee that we'll talk about you can typically also transfer that balance to another credit card where you have a balance that you owe so if you are someone who has 19 percent interest on a separate card that might make sense for a bit and also the final one is going to be using that card for purchases and then those purchases are going to be zero percents so a lot of this depends on what you're doing that balance transfer for if you or someone using it for food then maybe it makes sense to do it as purchases if for someone using it to pay rents then in the past at least you would want to transfer it into your bank account just because that was the easiest way to pay rent but there are some other tools out there like plastic which allow you to pay rents off the credit card so you have to look at the fees there and then the final one is if you are looking to invest it or something put it into the stock market then you would also want it into your bank accounts so all of that sounds really really good what is the catch and this ties into the transfer aspect of the bounce transfer so for most these cards you're going to have a fee related to this transfer some issuers are pretty clear about it so if you go to something like City with the simplicity card they'll tell you that at 0 but once you scroll down into the terms you can see that there's going to be a cost of a certain dollar amount or the higher amounts is going to be the percentage so right now on a per second if you wanted to get the simplicity card for that transfer if you're transferring a sizable amount which is likely what you're doing you're paying five percents that's pretty much the cost of doing business and that's what you're paying upfront so you need to figure out whether it's worth it to do this there are going to be strings in addition to this dough so that's going to be one of the two big terms for balance transfers that you need to understand and the second one is going to be the term of it so how long you have until you have to start paying interest sometimes it might be nine months or ten months it might be fifteen months or 18 months but you'd need to be very careful with this date just because after this point the interest is going to be substantially higher and you need to be very careful there I believe in some instances too it actually might start accruing interest if you don't pay it off before that date it depends on the specific terms so I would strongly recommend before applying for one of these cards and before using a balance transfer offer to actually read through the terms even if you're spending just two to three minutes and make that smart educated choice for example the Wells Fargo card I don't think they're doing anything Shady but it's not really apparent on the first page I'm pretty sure there's going to be comments down below telling me hey the Wells Fargo card doesn't have anything but once you click into the terms and then once you do a command or control F or use her phone and do that search feature you're going to see the cost there it's not going to be on the front page it's on that subsequent page one quick side note before we continue just because I think it's going to be a question you want to make that bounce transfer relatively sizable just because if we do something like a twenty dollar transfer that five dollar fee which is going to be the greater amount it's going to represent a twenty five percent fee and that doesn't make any sense so I'd note if you have not liked the video yet give it a thumbs up again it doesn't cost you anything at all there's no fees related to it so what are the pros and what are the cons the main advantage is that you're getting money that you need and if you are dealing with a financial situation financial crisis then this can be a saving grace again I'm someone who is in favor of having a rainy day fund of three to six or even twelve months of runway but I realize that looking at it right now that doesn't really help anyone me saying that doesn't really solve your problem once this is over then we can focus on buying that fire extinguisher and making sure that we have those fire water things the sprinklers but until then we need to put out that fire main disadvantage is that there's going to be fees involved they'll be discussed already and also it's going to tank a credit score in the short term this is actually going to lead into one of the main cruxes of balance transfer cards and this is that people who likely need it are not going to get it here is someone who already has high credit card utilization who already has a lot of debts then it's going to be harder to get approved for these offers and even if you do it's likely going to be a smaller credit limits using a quick example imagine if you were lending money to a co-worker one of them has a lot of money they owe to other people and you can see that the credit score is pretty low and the other one has a good credit score independent of other information you're probably going to lend to that person with a higher credit score us as humans can make better decisions because we can look at more factors but remember that most of this is going to be algorithmic they're looking at this mostly based off her credit score income and maybe where you work or industry so how do you maximize our odds of getting improved and also what are some other strategies one big thing that I would recommend is to not apply for a balance transfer card with a bank where you already have outstanding balances this might end up being your auto loans so a car loan are student loans or your mortgage just because they don't want that risk think about this from a business perspective they don't want that exposure to you because if you default not only are they losing out on that balance transfer card they're also probably losing out on those other loans even if they have the right to clawback that mortgage and get back that property they don't really want to deal with it because they don't want to be in the business of having to do that they'd rather just charge you the interest and collect monthly interest rather than having to deal with that whole process the second tip is that if you know you need one of these I do it sooner rather than later before your credit score tanks if you are using their other cards right now just because it's going to be harder to get approved afterwards so maximize our odds of approval you probably wants a competitive credit score and you also want probably between 0 to maybe 29 percent utilization I think anything close to that 50% mark for utilization is going to raise a lot of red flags that might mean treating your cards as pay-as-you-go cards so when you use it you end up paying it off before hands and make sure the utilization isn't too out of whack or also just dealing with it in terms of the statement date so it's a bit of juggling in terms of this but I think it's fine if you are someone who wants to be a bit more strategic never confused by this I'd strongly recommend either watching our other videos talking about credit scores or even just reading the blog post and I'll link those down below in the description box easiest way to think of it is it's your tinder profile for these banks it might not really look good behind the scene but you want to just look good for that tinder profile maybe we are doing that upward angle thing on that note if you are someone who wants to learn about these bounds transfer cards or pretty much any other cards and you want to support our channel we do have links that are on our website ask sattvikam or down below in the description box make sure the links are competitive but otherwise very easy way to support the channel so we talked about a lot of the basics but we are going to talk about some advanced strategies as well that you might want to consider we already know what we need in order to maximize approvals but if you are someone playing that long credit card game if you want to maximize your rewards and stuff like that then I think this segment is going to be very useful in terms of cards that can be prodded changed to other useful cards after this I would look into City Bank of America discover as Wells Chase American Express is a weird pic given how the math tends to work out given how the opportunity cost works and I've talked about this in a few of the other videos but if there's someone who eventually wants to travel then I probably would not touch American Express number two is if you're someone who wants to minimize the chance of you having to deal with sharing or financial information I would probably avoid City discover as well as American Express City is going to be a soft one just because they tend to only ask for your tax information when you apply and not really afterwards once you are approved so if you apply for a city card and they ask for that you can not submit anything and it doesn't really impact your future city applications and the reason I know this is because I've gotten that letter before I just didn't bother submitting it the t45 zero sixty or four or five zero sixty and yeah it was fine I get approved for other city cards now both discover even if they approve you they can ask for this and if they're not happy of the information they can just get rid of you and ban you as a customer American Express is kind of the same and this is called the financial review process with American Express though if you are willing to share that tax information they tend to just cut your credit limits rather than banning you if you don't submit anything at all then you're likely going to be blacklisted obviously things might be different right now but I have seen people who have had two hundred thousand dollars in income on their credit application and then submit tax documents that were really about twenty-five to thirty thousand dollars so two hundred thousand versus twenty thousand that's a pretty big jump and even those people just had very strict credit limits and decreases rather than getting cut off completely so I note in case are wondering how their income can be that drastically different they were working as a data scientist and then the last year when they were looking for that income for that tax return they were still a PhD students but if there's someone who doesn't really have that good credit I think I would look into your credit union just because they might be a bit more lacks and willing to give you a higher rates in terms of the credit limit you have I don't really bank with credit unions because it's not believed that valuable for me but I feel like hearing from what people have said they tend to be more willing to actually help you so what would be the option that pic right now if I was someone who was looking for a balance transfer card I'd probably go of the city double cash card just because it's one that has value in the long term and also it has a pretty reasonable balance transfer fee so if you compare to double cash fee compared to something like a simplicity fee that's a pretty big difference two percent doesn't sound like that much so going from five percent to 3 percent but when you're looking at a sizable amount even ten thousand dollars that adds up pretty quickly yes there are going to be other cards that give you more time to pay it off but it's not like we're talking about few months here we're still talking about more than 12 months maybe I'm crazy but I feel like you for someone looking to keep a balance past that point then there might be some more systemic issues even after all of this the city double cash ends up being a pretty good cash back card a 2% card so it still has value in the long term and if you are someone that wants to eventually travel running that city trifecta or double card set up might work out pretty well and those points end up being more valuable we'll finish off the video with a bunch of likely questions that I'm probably going to see in the comments do you get points for doing balance transfers from my understanding you don't there might be some exceptions out there but if you're someone doing a balance transfer you're probably not worried about the points and on the bank's perspective and on their end they don't really have an incentive because you're already getting something out of them so they don't really need to give you anything back beggars can't be choosers would I take out-of-bounds transfer if I didn't need it just for insurance I don't really think so unless you feel like you are at risk for losing your job or you're in a field that you know you're going to be affected in the short term it's really hard to say because everyone circumstances are going to be different but I wouldn't take that 3 to 5% fee unless I need it to one weird one that we might see in the comments too is whether it makes sense to do a balance transfer in order to invest the money so back when interest rates were high this actually wasn't too bad of a strategy because it's a risk-free return you're taking a 3% hit in order to make four or five percents but right now I think it depends on your risk tolerance if you're a software developer and you're thinking about doing this in order to make money in the stock market then maybe that's not too bad I think that's a reasonable risk there for someone who's currently unemployed and then you're doing this and then trying to make money from it but otherwise you don't have any other means of making income then I'd probably say that's a bad idea I think one of the dumb money guys did this in the past as well and I feel like a lot of people who are smart end up taking shots you might miss you're probably going to miss most of the time but it's just about your ability to recover I had all my credit cards maxed out using the credit cards in my stock margin cash advances cash advance on my credit card in my brokerage account margin doubt and full out leopard with with options and lost it all the best thing about that was it wasn't that much money in the grand picture of things today but at the time it was all the money the runs to you I'm suing or so it took me a few years to get back how many shots can I take and if I miss am I going to be able to fight another day I don't think it's something I would recommend for 99% of people though on that note if you are someone looking for a new brokerage I leave a weeble link down below and you get two free stocks there my question for you guys is are you someone looking to bounce transfer cards right now and what are the pros and the cons to you let me in the community know in the comments down below if you liked the video give it a thumbs up really helps us out if you know anyone else who'd benefit from what we just talked about shared this with them it'll probably help them out but otherwise hope you guys liked it see you guys next time