How Your Score Is Costing You Thousands Back when I graduated high school (a few years after dinosaurs walked the earth) I had absolutely no idea how detrimental my credit score would be to my future purchases. My brother was sitting pretty with a 750 credit score and financed his new car at an extremely […]
Tag Archives: Credit Score
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Dec
Dec
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 […]
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Nov
Nov
Less Than Perfect Credit Scores and Living Situations. Many families deal with tough situations when it comes to rentals and the landlords that come with them. According to the Business Insider, more Americans are renting than at any time in the last 50 years. I can recall a time when I rented a home that had […]
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Oct
Oct
Buying your first home is a daunting milestone in everyone’s life and can bring both joy and anxiety when beginning the process. One large source of anxiety comes from the ever looming need of an exceptional credit score to aquire acceptable rates. For those that meet this criteria as displayed by your credit monitoring service; […]
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Oct
Oct
Most all of us have heard of Debt consolidation. But is Debt Consolidation right for you? What type of debt consolidation should one choose? Is Debt Consolidation effective? What are some of the pitfalls of debt consolidation? Guess what, sometimes “life” happens and we need to utilize our credit cards out of necessity. A perfect […]
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May
May
How Could You Be Hurting Your Credit? The more you know about how credit works, the better your score will be. This is because, without a lot of background knowledge, your own logic and reasoning will oftentimes fail you. There are a lot of factors that go into creating your credit score, so trying to […]
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Sep
Sep
Less Than Perfect Credit Scores and Living Situations. Many families deal with tough situations when it comes to rentals and the landlords that come with them. According to the Business Insider, more Americans are renting than at any time in the last 50 years. I can recall a time when I rented a home that had […]
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May
May
There are so many things that come into play to obtain a healthy credit profile. The hardest part of navigating the credit world however, is knowing what advice is accurate and possibly stumbling a few times in an effort to get back on track. Many times consumers think they have a good grasp on it […]
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Millennials- Why do they have the lowest Credit Scores?
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Mar
Mar
What is a credit score? Most people would answer that this is how lenders see if you are able to receive a loan and at what interest rate. And that’s true. But really, it’s an algorithmic number telling a lender how likely a person is to default on a loan within the first 24 months. […]
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Mar
Mar
Whether you are looking to diversify your credit portfolio with a new line of credit or are searching for the best benefits from a lender, credit cards are normally the easiest way to do so. When most consumers begin looking for a new credit card, they are bombarded with multiple offers stating that their card […]