Identity Theft

Identity Theft

If you have a lower credit score, odds are that the score is caused by some small financial mistake or oversight you have made in the past. Not every person with bad credit has a low credit score caused by something they did, though. Sometimes, other people’s…

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Reduce Debt and Credit Types

Reduce Debt and Credit Types

Reduce your Debts If you have a lot of debt, your credit score will suffer. Paying down your debts to a minimum will help elevate your credit score. For example, if you have a $1000 limit on your credit card and you regularly carry a balance of $900, you will be a...

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Avoid excessive credit

Avoid excessive credit

If you have many lines of credit or several huge debts, you make a worse credit risk because you are close to “overextending your credit”.? This simply means that you may be taking on more credit than you can comfortably pay off. Even if you…

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Pay Bills on time

Pay Bills on time

Because of the way credit scores are calculated, some actions you take will affect your credit score better than others. In general, paying your bills on time and meeting your financial responsibilities will boost your score the most. Owing a reasonable…

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Develop an action plan

Develop an action plan

Once you have your credit report and your credit score, you will be able to tell where you stand and where many of your problems lie. If you have a poor score, try to see in your credit report what could be causing the problem:
Do you have too…

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Credit Bureaus

Credit Bureaus

The three major credit bureaus are important to contact if you are going to be repairing your credit score. The major three credit agencies can help you by sending you your credit report. If you find an error on your credit report, these are…

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Credit Scores come from…

Credit Scores come from…

If you are going to improve your credit score, then logic has it that you must understand what your credit score is and how it works. Without this information, you won’t be able to very effectively improve your score because you won’t understand…

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What is Credit Score?

What is Credit Score?

There are many misconceptions about credit scores out there. There are people who believe that they don’t have a credit score and many people who think that their credit scores just don’t really matter. These sorts of misconceptions…

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