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Why You Should Regularly Review Your Credit Reports

May 13, 2010

The truth is most credit reports contain errors of some kind. The errors can be the result of innocent mistakes or bad record keeping and sloppy data entry. And since your credit history is constantly evolving, the possibility of mistakes finding their way onto your reports always exists. Unless you are the extremely rare person [...]

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6 Warning Signs For Credit Repair Scams

May 5, 2010

Countless consumers across the country could benefit from a higher credit score. The desire for a cleaned up credit history and a higher credit score is well justified. A higher credit score gives you access to lower interest rates and a greater degree of borrowing power. And depending on the size of a purchase you [...]

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3 Reasons To Get Your Credit Report

April 9, 2010

The majority of consumers are not proactive about reviewing their credit report and becoming familiar with all that is on there. Most of us only learn what our credit score is when we go to make a large purchase (like a car, for example) and the finance person has to run our credit to see [...]

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Here We Go Again: Deceptive Debt Settlement Advertising

March 25, 2010

The debt settlement companies are circling like vultures again. With the soaring number of consumers who are undergoing financial struggles, we are once again seeing many debt settlement companies undertaking the age old practice of deceptive advertising. This time they’re doing it through the mail. Along with TV and radio, misleading debt settlement ads seem [...]

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How To Fix Errors On Your Credit Report

March 18, 2010

Errors on credit reports are pretty common. In fact, I read somewhere once that 3 out of every 4 reports have errors of some kind. Sometimes errors occur due to an innocent mistake and other times it may be a result of sloppy data entry. A relatively easy way to improve your credit score is [...]

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6 Credit Score Myths Exposed

March 17, 2010

Continuing this week’s series on credit scores, today we’re going to talk about the most common myths regarding what goes into a credit score and expose why they’re not truthful. There’s a lot of good information and a lot of mis-information out there regarding credit scores and it’s important to distinguish between the two to [...]

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5 Tips To Improve Your Credit Score

March 16, 2010

Yesterday we talked about how your credit score is calculated, so now let’s look at 5 things you can do to improve your credit score. Please keep in mind that raising your score takes time and there are no short cuts. In fact, oftentimes short cuts can backfire and end up lowering your score. So [...]

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How Your Credit Score Is Calculated

March 15, 2010

Unless you are the extremely rare person who pays for everything in cash, credit plays an important role in your life. Your credit score is a number that represents your credit worthiness, or to put it another way, the likelihood that you will pay back your debts. Ultimately, your credit score can determine what you [...]

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