What starts off as a useful tool can suddenly become a crutch.
for rent payments, say the app began as a useful tool for managing cash flow but became a crutch that suddenly disappeared.of the rent payment, plus a monthly convenience fee of $20, from the user’s bank account. The user then pays the other half in flexible installments, deducted from their bank account.
“They reported me as being delinquent to the credit bureaus and sent me collection demands weekly,” he says. Robert says his credit score has taken a hit even though he was able to work out a repayment plan with Flex for the half of January that the company did pay. Investors love the companies behind the apps. In August, Square agreed to buy Australia-based Afterpay for $29 billion. Affirm went public in February and is valued at $45 billion. Europe-based Klarna was valued at $45.6 billion in a July funding round.
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