Sep 25 2011

Improving your credit score

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Improving your credit score is one of the easiest ways to save your hard earned money. With a 720 or higher credit score, anybody can easily obtain financing at the lowest interest rates available. How much can you save with a good credit score? Try $3,000 on a $15,000 car loan and at least $50,000 on a $150,000 / 30-year mortgage.

If you’re about to buy a home or auto, improving your credit rating before applying for a mortgage loan is the best thing you can do. you could have a car payment that is $100 less each month or a house payment that is $200 less each month because you taken the time to have raised your credit score!

Did you know that people with poor credit ratings can wind up paying insurance premiums three times higher than those with good credit scores? If you carried out small steps to improve your credit score, you can even lower your car insurance premiums by more than half.

Is your poor credit rating keeping you from getting a good job or worse?
Today most employers rely solely on your credit ratings to make their hiring decisions. Better credit could make the difference or give you an edge.

What affects your FICO credit score the most?

1. Paying all your bills on time.
2. Not accumulating debt.
Even if you have a very low FICO credit score today, you can have a much higher credit score in six months to a year or more. Start now, try paying all bills on time, paying down any debt and find and fix any inaccuracy on your credit report.

Can you fix your own credit?
Absolutely Yes! Obtain your credit report regularly and not just one, get at least three, because they don’t all have the same information, now find any inaccuracy’s or bills that don’t belong there and copy, then send the proof to the credit bureau’s. Within the month you could raise your credit score!

But my credit is bad.
No matter how bad your credit rating is today, you can start working on raising it and achieve a high credit score soon, and faster than you might think. If your credit report is not up to par, meaning you have one or more late payment notations, a judgment, written off accounts, liens or even a bankruptcy judjement, you can still improve your credit score.

For detailed information see How to dispute credit report errors



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