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Debt Collector or Scam; How Do I Tell?

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How To Deal With Debt Collectors I have recently been receiving strange calls from someone trying to collect money from me, what do I do? As a consumer, it is important to be educated about the process by which an actual collection agency attempts to collect debts as opposed to scam callers asking you to […]

Answers To Your Most Asked Credit Questions

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How Do Negative Items Affect Me? Negative items on your credit report could be what separates you from that home loan you hoped for or a decent financing for a vehicle. The good news is that if you happen to have these negative items on your credit report, there are still wats to mitigate their […]

How The Pandemic is Affecting Credit Scores

has almost been a full year since we heard the phrase “Two weeks to slow the flatten the curve” and the effects of the current pandemic had reached everyones lives in one way or another. For many Americans, this past year has tested the metal of their financial practices; providing questions without answer to their […]

5 Ways To Help Manage Your Accounts

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Credit Alerts Worth Setting Up Now In order to maintain great credit scores, keeping track of all the activity on your accounts is key! Smart phones are attempting to make our lives easier with a multitude of applications. All major banking institutions now have online banking or apps to make life easier on their customers. […]

Understanding Your Credit Profile

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Good, Better, Best and Bad The internet and cell phones have now made it easier than ever to check your credit score as often as you’d like. Millennials are starting to check their credit scores more frequently than any other generation. This could be due to the fact that credit has become vital in many […]

4 Steps For Credit Empowerment

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Now that the new year is upon us, it is time to start on our resolutions for the year. My group of friends all discussed what we want to work on this year to better ourselves and the  lives we live. A couple of us are looking to hit the gym more frequently while Eric […]

What You Need To Know Before Buying a House

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Building Buying Power As the Spring months start peeking through, the home buying market is heating up! Have you been picturing the day when you can paint your own walls and mow your own grass? The dream of homeownership comes with great financial responsibility. Many first-time home buyers have questions about their down payment, and […]

Financial Focus for 2021

How to Focus Financially in the New Year By Jessica Larson, SolopreneurJournal.com New year, clean slate. Well, maybe it doesn’t seem like it, with the pandemic still very much in play and lots of the same challenges hitching a ride with us into 2021.    You may not be able to wipe away all your […]

Financial Focus for 2021

How to Focus Financially in the New Year By Jessica Larson, SolopreneurJournal.com New year, clean slate. Well, maybe it doesn’t seem like it, with the pandemic still very much in play and lots of the same challenges hitching a ride with us into 2021.    You may not be able to wipe away all your […]